Our expertise

Geotechnics

Geotechnics calls upon civil engineering techniques applied to soil and rock study, that is natural materials constituting the earth crust. The geotechnics department's engineers and technicians offer a solid technical expertise to our clients.

• Soils and rock drillings using our own equipment
• Determination of the bearing capacity
• Pedological, geotechnical, hydrogeological and foundation studies
• Measurement of water levels, compactions and permeability
• Verification of bank stability
• Verification of pile driving
• Inspection
• Supervision
• Blasting (monitoring of vibrations)
• Photo-interpretation
• Research of borrow pits and our professionals have access to state-of-the-art software, including:

• Géotec (drilling report)
• Géoslope (slope stability analysis)
• SEEP (runoff in porous medium)
• SIGMA (distribution of constraints)

We have our own drilling equipment as well as related equipment, including: piezocon, pressure meter, vane shear tester and penetrometer.