Earthworks Design
Before construction, developers often require ground works to create a suitable landform for their project. Sites may contain natural or man-made constraints to development, such as foundations from previous structures, or geotechnically and environmentally unsuitable materials. Reprofiling may also be required to provide suitable construction platforms.
Earthworks design identifies and specifies the required works to address these problems and to provide cost-effective and sustainable solutions that prioritise the maximum, appropriate reuse of site materials.
RSK’s dedicated Geosciences team, and subsidiary CWA, provide an integrated team of earthworks design specialists applying a wide breadth of knowledge and experience to offer solutions to complex in-ground challenges.
Thanks to our close collaboration with other in-house specialists, we can offer services for sites with ground conditions or locations that prove particularly challenging, such as former landfills and cliff/ slope faces, as well as integrating the earthworks and infrastructure designs.
End-to-end approach
With the capability to support our clients from assessment, investigation and design through to qualification and regulation, we offer an end-to-end approach to earthworks design.
Our clients, including tier 2 contractors and residential and commercial developers, trust us to provide high-quality, comprehensive services, such as site preparation works, value engineering solutions, and cost and programme certainty.
Managing risk
When undertaking construction projects, our clients face challenges that arise from difficult ground conditions and circumstances, budget restrictions, planning and regulatory requirements, community opposition and deadlines.
With several often-conflicting factors to manage, we understand our clientโs concerns about risks and costs associated with earthworks design. We work closely with our internal specialists, whose expertise includes utility surveys, unmanned aerial surveys and remediation contracting, to manage risks and mitigate them via the most efficient, cost-effective methods.
Responsive and dedicated
We endeavour to respond promptly to any in-ground related challenges our clients face throughout a project and offer full-time supervision during site works to facilitate this. When producing bespoke earthworks designs, we consider a wide range of remedial options to ensure the most effective is applied, and subsequently provide the best value solution.
Throughout the stakeholder consultation process, we assist the client by offering a dedicated stakeholder management team and produce designs with minimal nuisance impact in mind. Our designs incorporate suitable contingency and backup solutions to minimise the impact of issues which occur throughout the project. Our in-house noise, air and asbestos teams can provide additional monitoring during the construction period to provide further re-assurance. Earthworks and design services are available as part of RSK’s wide variety of related services, which includes environmental impact assessments, geoenvironmental consultancy and remediation strategy.
Bespoke solutions
With a wide range of expertise and a proactive approach, our clients know that we will provide earthworks design services that focus on materials reuse, cost effectivity and the careful management of risk. We are dedicated to providing our clients with solutions curated to the needs of their site to improve site suitability and minimise disruptions throughout the project.
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Our Expertise
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Assessments
Our assessment services include
โข assessing existing documentation such as historic reports, previous investigations and historic mapping
โข initial site walkovers
โข service drawings
โข reviewal of flood risk
โข site ecology
โข due diligence reporting and initial site assessment reporting. -
Investigation
We provide a wide range of investigation services, including
โข utility surveys to verify the location of services
โข topographic surveys
โข site investigation design and intrusive site investigation
โข geotechnical testing and chemical testing
โข interpretation and reporting of results, and refinement of the conceptual model
โข ecological surveys. -
Design
Our team has a wide skillset for providing design services:
โข identifying level constraints
โข initial site model and proposed levels
โข coordination with infrastructure design
โข input to environmental impact statements
โข establishing required bearing capacities, settlement, slope stability and mining treatments required
โข classification of soils, suitability and location for reuse, assessing the potential to generate and recover specialist material grades
โข contaminated land risk assessments
โข assessment of remedial options for chemically or geotechnically unsuitable soils, and selection of treatment and improvement mitigation methods
โข assessment of structures for demolition and foundation removal
โข preparation of earthworks and remediation strategies
โข preparation of geotechnical design reports
โข waste recovery and other environmental permits
โข drafting of materials management and construction environmental management plans
โข principal designer services under construction design and management regulations
โข initial regulatory liaison. -
Qualification and regulations
Our qualification and regulation services include
โข preparing detailed ground models, cut, fill and process volumes, and development of principal quantities and bills of quantities
โข earthworks and demolition specifications
โข regulatory and planning approvals
โข earthworks supervision
โข preparation of information for clients sales packs
โข specialist remediation contracting services
โข geotechnical and environmental verification testing
โข verification reporting
โข regulatory approvals and close outs.
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