What is a geotechnical study?
The geotechnical study, or as it is also known, soil investigation, is the procedure by which you can find out the soil’s physical properties. It is usually used on construction sites to determine if the soil is safe for the construction that will be done. Without soil analysis, construction projects cannot be carried out.
What is the importance of uni geotechnical study?
Even if it is not regarded with much importance, the geotechnical survey should be seen as a vital stage in the construction process. It is incorrect to think you will not need to do this study if the other neighbours have done it.
What can affect the foundation’s stability, implicitly the building’s safety, is given by factors such as weather conditions, land management, climate change and most significantly, the location.
When the soil is not suitable for a type of construction, the building may collapse, putting other people’s homes and lives at risk.
Depending on the results of the geotechnical study, the architects can determine the depth and type of the foundation. They will also decide which elements are suitable for the construction, they will prevent the problems that may arise, and they will be able to offer solutions.
The geotechnical study aims to give you security in the construction you want to do and also in your investments. I don’t think people are willing to start spending money on a construction project, only to find out later that the land is not suitable.
Having high importance, the geotechnical study is mandatory by law. Regardless of the initial price you pay, the amount given will be the investment that will save you from losing a large amount of money.
An aforementioned geotechnical study should be seen as an essential part of the construction process. A preliminary stage in which you would increase the safety of the investment.
The software you can use:
Dynamic Probing
Dynamic Penetration Tests are the reading, recording, interpretation, storage and management of any type of penetrometer, including new or custom equipment and of in-borehole SPT readings.
Dynamic Probing provides functions for archiving readings by site and automatic calculation of the real energy transmitted, including correction for warp and the correlation coefficient with SPT (standard reference tests for geomechanics calculations and geotechnical correlations).
Dynamic Probing is also BIM compatible with geolocation import ed export in AGS format (Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists).
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Static Probing
Software for the processing and archiving static penetration tests with mechanical cone CPT, electric cone CPTE and piezocone CPTU.
The lithological and stratigraphic interpretation methods are developed for a step chosen by the user, even centimetric, with the most successful internationally used and recent methodologies (in addition to the historical ones of Begemann and Schmertmann, the software also uses Robertson, Douglas-Olsen, Koester etc. with standard or “normalized” data of qc and fs).
