Highways
Delivering Resilient Highway Infrastructure
Highways projects involve extensive earthworks, bridge structures and linear infrastructure. Increasingly the focus is on extending the life span of existing assets, through interventions and effective maintenance.
North Geotechnics provides geotechnical expertise to support designers, asset owners and contractors for new-build and asset maintenance highways projects. Our designs, reports and specifications are compliant with National Highways and local authority standards.
Earthworks Design
Efficient earthworks design underpins many highways projects.
We provide embankment and cutting stability assessments and detailed design for new and existing earthworks, including stabilisation solutions such as soil nail and facing design. We ensure optimisation of material reuse and provide construction specifications. We can provide emergency reactive design following slope instability.
Retaining Wall Design
In constrained highway environments, retaining structures are frequently required.
We provide detailed design and construction drawings for embedded walls, reinforced soil, and gravity walls. Our design reports and specifications are in line with National Highways and local authority standards.
Bridge and Structure Foundations
Highway structures often demand complex foundation solutions due to variable geology or loading.
North Geotechnics offers bearing capacity and settlement assessments, design of shallow and piled foundation for abutments, gantries and bridges including integral bridge foundations.
Working Platform Design
Highways construction and maintenance activities involve heavy tracked plant, piling rigs and specialist machinery.
Safe platform design is essential and North Geotechnics can deliver working platform designs along with clear drawings, specifications and monitoring/verification guidance.