Capabilities

Everything a hazardous slope needs, under one roof.

Four service lines that run from the first borehole to long-term monitoring.

  • Rockfall protection
  • Slope stabilization
  • Landslide mitigation
  • Avalanche protection
  • Groundwater management
  • Earth anchor supply and installation
  • DTH anchor drilling up to 50 m
  • Nature-based landslide stabilization
GSI crew on scaffolding installing protection on a rock face
  • Soil stability analysis, design and construction
  • Geological, geotechnical and geomorphic evaluation
  • Settlement analysis for slopes and foundations
  • Pavement analysis and design
  • Core drilling with core and undisturbed samples
  • Embankment design
  • Slope stability analysis
  • Site seismic analysis
  • Subsurface evaluation
  • Geotechnical evaluation for dam design
  • Dam construction, inspection and testing
  • Construction engineering
  • Plate load testing
  • Pile installation support
  • Terrain evaluation
GSI geologists logging a rock outcrop beside a mountain road

Soil

Moisture content, density, specific gravity, grain size (sieve and hydrometer), Atterberg limits, direct shear, triaxial, unconfined compression, consolidation, permeability (constant and falling head), shrink-swell, Proctor compaction and CBR.

Rock

Point load strength, UCS, rock triaxial, slake durability, water absorption, porosity, specific gravity and unit weight.

Aggregate

Sieve analysis, specific gravity, water absorption, bulk density, Los Angeles abrasion, ACV, AIV, flakiness and elongation index.

Bitumen & asphalt

Penetration, softening point, Marshall stability and binder content.

Cement & concrete

Fineness, consistency, setting time, soundness, specific gravity, flow table, compressive and flexural strength, slump, air content, permeability and mix design.

Direct shear apparatus
Load frame for compression testing
Automated triaxial testing system
Consolidation test frames
Rock core drilling press
Digital shear testing machine

Services

  • Survey
  • InSAR satellite monitoring
  • Geophysical exploration
  • Event detection monitoring

Geophysical methods

Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), Seismic Refraction Survey (SRT), Micro-Tremor Array Measurement (MAM) and Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES).

InSAR with Geofem

Surface deformation prediction for cut slopes; landslide monitoring for roads, hydropower, tunnel alignments and high dams; urban land subsidence.

Engineers running a geophysical survey beside a landslide

In-house capacity

Our own rigs, our own lab, our own crews.

Owning the equipment means the data behind every design is ours, and work starts when the site is ready.

200mGeotechnical core drilling depth
50mDTH drilling for slope protection works
5Material groups tested in our laboratory
100+Projects completed since 2015
  • Geotechnical core drilling machine upto 200 m
  • Down-the-hole (DTH) drilling upto 50 m
  • Triaxial Testing In-house
  • Elefoot and microtremor testing Geophysics
  • Soil, rock and materials laboratory In-house
  • Data processing and GEO5 modelling In-house