TUNNEL EXCAVATION
METHODS
hard rock tunnel boring machines soft rock open face shields earth pressure balance machines conventional drill and blast pipe jacking and microtunneling compressed air mining roadheader mining
TUNNEL LINING AND TEMPORARY
SUPPORT
cast-in-place concrete single pass bolted and gasketed precast concrete and
steel segments new Austrian tunneling method conventional methods including rock bolt, shotcrete and
steel sets
EXCAVATION SUPPORT AND
SHAFTS
soldier pile and lagging sheet piles deep shafts soldier pile and tremie concrete
MICROTUNNELING/AUGER BORING/HORIZONTAL
BORING
underground pipeline road crossings water crossings lake intakes and outtakes specialty water supply installations
HORIZONTAL WELLS
fixed angle or guided (walkover or wireline)
jetting bits, shielded bits, mud motors, downhole
hammers surface to surface, blind, in-tunnel or between
shafts for contaminant clean-up, drainage or water
supply difficult soils (flowing sands, expansive clays)
various casing materials (carbon steel, SS, lightweight
SS, HDPE, HTPE, PVC, fiberglass), perforation, filter and connection
styles shelter casing or direct installation for groundwater extraction, air sparging, hot air
injection, soil vapor extraction and drainage specialty techniques such as hydraulic fracturing of
low permeability soils from the wellbore. water sampling
GEOTECHNICAL
ANALYSIS
finite element analysis geotechnical instrumentation
WINE CAVES
wine cave design
DOCUMENT ADMINISTRATION
project website development and maintenance document administration and management