When it comes to design, operations, maintenance and safety of mega manmade structures like dams, reservoirs, mines, bridges, roadways, railways and construction projects geotechnical engineering plays an important role. The services which are included in the same are designing, investigation, construction, site selection as well as monitoring. There are many a companies which are into providing geotechnical services. These services include in-situ lab testing, geo-environmental engineering, engineering seismology, foundation engineering, arid region geotechnics, risk and hazard management and more.
Selection of the companies for geotechnical services involves an expert advice other than research on the internet and through testimonials of the different companies and shortlisting a few good ones. Then quotes are requested from the shortlisted ones and based on the requirement, quality of work and cost the finalization of the geotechnical service provider is done. Geotechnical services come with a variety of benefits and help in complete life cycle management of the mega structures. There are a variety of soil instruments and equipments which are used for study and investigation as well as design, operations and maintenance of the same. They are highly useful in remote monitoring, almost realtime information generation, reports and analysis, hazard alerts, action plan and much more.
