Investigation, drilling and analysis for foundations, slopes and subdivisions across south and central Alberta, set out in a sealed report you can build on.
Each one ends in a document an engineer has read, checked and sealed.
Drilling, sampling and in-situ testing to replace assumptions about a site with measured soil and groundwater conditions. It is the fieldwork every geotechnical report is built on.
Bearing capacity, settlement, and a foundation recommendation sized to the soil and the structure rather than to a regional rule of thumb.
Stability assessment for cuts, fills and natural slopes, with mitigation where it is needed, including setback work near coulees and banks.
Investigation and analysis in one clear sealed report a builder, a reviewer or a municipality can act on.
Every borehole is logged on site by the engineer who plans the work and later seals the report. What the drilling actually encountered, at what depth, is the whole basis of the recommendation.
Soils across south and central Alberta vary from soft lacustrine clays to dense glacial till within a single quarter section. That is exactly why the report has to come from your site rather than from the one next door.
| 0.0 | Topsoil |
| 0.4 | Silty clay, firm |
| 2.1 | Clay till, stiff |
| 5.6 | Glacial till, very stiff |
| 8.2 | Bedrock, shale |
A geotechnical report is only as good as the reasoning a reviewer can check, so the method is on the table.
Most people ordering a geotechnical report have never ordered one before. That is normal.
If a municipality, a bank, or a structural engineer asked for one, yes. If you are building on an acreage, near a coulee, on fill, or anywhere the ground looks soft or slumping, yes. If it is a deck on a house that has stood for thirty years, probably not, and you will be told that rather than sold one.
It depends on how many holes, how deep, and how far out the site is. Describe the site and the structure and you get a number and a date in writing before anything starts.
One sealed report: borehole logs, soil descriptions, groundwater, bearing capacity, settlement, and a foundation recommendation, written so a permit reviewer can follow the reasoning without phoning anyone.
You get them early and plainly. Finding out the soil is poor while the project is still a drawing costs you a conversation. Finding out after the concrete is poured costs you the building.
Anderground Engineering is a single practitioner geotechnical practice based in Milo, in Vulcan County, serving south and central Alberta.
The person who answers the phone is the person who visits your site, logs the drilling, runs the analysis and seals the report. Nothing is farmed out to a junior and rubber stamped.
Roughly fifteen years of geotechnical investigation and drilling experience across Alberta, including years as a geotechnical engineer and drilling manager, and before that as a site supervisor and foreman.
Tell me about the site and the structure. You get back what investigation it needs and what the report will cover.
I will tell you what investigation it needs and what the report will cover.
Call 403 648 2911