We are pleased to announce that we are about to commence a new project in Yorkshire for retail, commercial and leisure facilities. The confidential site requires construction of a development plateau through a cut and fill exercise across the sloping site. One part of the site will require a large excavation into a dipping rock mass, and Surepath have been retained as a sub-consultant to address the stability issues posed by the proposed works. The ground investigation is underway, which will include deep trial pitting to facilitate insitu logging of the rock mass structure to complement rotary cored drillholes. We aim to be able to release further details of the project in the coming weeks.

We recently provided sub-consultancy support in connection with the stability of proposed high walls to a coal extraction facility. The work required the appraisal of the geology, hydrogeology and past mining at the confidential site in Yorkshire,  before an appraisal of the stability issues was completed to support preliminary slope design recommendations. The assessment required the ground risk around the proposed works to be zoned, and required too consideration of the potential impact of the coal extraction on third party infrastructure.