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Ground Engineering Services GROUND ENGINEERING We provide innovative designs tailored for individual projects within all aspects of Ground Engineering. Proper ground engineering is a prerequisite for improving the SELECTED REFERENCES performance of designed structures – including roads, railways, bridges, SOLIDIFICATION OF BBC W1 PROJECT, LANGHAM and tunnels – and can significantly CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS, PLACE, LONDON, UK, reduce life-cycle costs by making VUOSAARI HARBOUR, 2001-2010 use of the latest technology and FINLAND, 2006-2007 Planning and design of GROUND methods. Various methods of stabilisation basements over 14m deep in were implemented in Vuosaari central London, next to a Grade Ramboll’s competence within Habour, including the I Listed church and within the ground engineering comprises restoration of 500,000m3 of exclusion zones of London ENGINEERING a comprehensive range of TBT-contaminated sediments by Underground’s Victoria Line investigations and design services dredging and mass stabilisation tunnels. related to the subsurface. We with cement in the lagoons. have extensive experience from PRE-DESIGN FOR RAMBOLL CONTACT SERVICES working in more than 70 countries, FEHMARNBELT FIXED LINK, TRAFIKPLATS SPILLEPENGEN, and we are able to handle any soil DENMARK AND GERMANY, MALMÖ, SwEDEN, 2011 Ramboll is a leading engineering, RAMBOLL DENMARK RAMBOLL FINLAND condition anywhere in the world 2008-2014 Geotechnical and environmental design and consultancy company Hannemanns Allé 53 Pakkahuoneenaukio 2 providing the technology and Geotechnical and geophysical investigation and design for employing close to 10,000 DK-2300 Copenhagen S P.O. Box 718 experts and with a significant Denmark FIN-33101 Tampere methods needed. investigations for the Spillepengen junction, in the presence in Northern Europe, Finland Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link northern part of Malmö. The Russia, India and the Middle East. Lars Lønstrup Nicolaisen Our services cover all project between Germany and area is mainly reclaimed land We constantly strive to achieve Head of Department Petri Tyynelä inspiring and exacting solutions [email protected] Project Manager phases from site investigations, Denmark. The investigations which involves geotechnichal that make a genuine difference to Phone +45 5161 6792 [email protected] laboratory and in-situ testing to included marine geophysical and environmental challenges. our customers, the end-users and Phone +358 20 755 6880 advanced numerical modelling, investigations, a comprehensive society as a whole. RAMBOLL UK 60 Newman Street RAMBOLL NORWAY project implementation, inspection, geotechnical boring campaign, HUMBER GATEWAY www.ramboll.com London W1T 3DA Mellomila 79 and supervision. laboratory tests, geophysical OFFSHORE WIND FARM, UK, United Kingdom P.b. 9420 Sluppen borehole logging and offshore 2011-2012 NO-7493Trondheim large scale testing. Geotechnical investigation, Mohsen Vaziri Norway Director interpretation and detailed [email protected] Jan Erik Buan design of monopile foundations Phone +44 20 74625317 Department Manager for offshore wind turbines at [email protected] Carlton House Phone +47 9324 3099 Humber Gateway Offshore Ringwood Road, Woodlands Wind Farm. Southhampton, SO40 7HT Even Øiseth United Kingdom Subject Manager [email protected] Mike Cooper Phone +47 90091733 Geotechnical Engineering Director [email protected] Phone +44 02380817574 RAMBOLL SWEDEN Skeppsgatan 5 SE-211 11 Malmö Sweden Eva Petersson Marine and offshore Transport Buildings and urban Rock engineering Field investigations Geophysics and Director geotechnics and engineering groundwater [email protected] geology Phone +46 10 6152000 FROM LEFT: Marine and offshore – Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm, UK, Transport – Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland, Buildings and urban geotechnics – Trianglen Railway Station, Sweden, Rock engineering and engineering geology – Sweden, Field Investigations – Norrland, Sweden, Geophysics and groundwater – Malmö Citytunnel, Sweden. MARKET SEGMENTS KEY SERVICES Ramboll provides ground engineering The range of services provided by Ramboll services to a broad range of market segments. on a highly specialised level is widespread. CHENNAI Marine and offshore Buildings and urban geotechnics necessary technical equipment Rock engineering and metres below the ground based on Laboratory services Ramboll provides the full range of Ramboll provides geotechnical to investigate and record soil engineering geology measurements in boreholes, along Ramboll has highly qualified offshore services within ground engineering for buildings and and groundwater contamination, Ramboll has broad experience in profiles and on surfaces. Linking the laboratory personnel with extensive engineering for offshore wind, structures of all scales, notably for including a field laboratory for designing underground facilities physical conditions of the earth or experience in carrying out as well as marine structures, ports and complex, high rise and large scale measuring chemical concentrations in sensitive natural environments seabed in 2D or 3D models with, providing advice to our customers harbours. We provide specifications projects, in all types of locations in water, soil, and pore air samples. as well as in urban settings. We for example, drillings and cone concerning the use of state-of-the- for supervision and interpretation — from inner-city confined sites to All available data is integrated in perform field investigations, penetration test data enables us to art testing of ground conditions. of site investigations as well as greenfields. order to predict the strength and numerical analyses, engineering establish a consistent geological The quality of the investigations TRONDHEIM preparation of ground models for dispersal of contamination in soils geology investigations, dam model. of the strength and deformation all design stages. Our specialists In urban locations, we have and groundwater. safety evaluations, rock mass properties of soil and rocks is within geology, geophysics and successfully found solutions for classifications, as well as planning GIS, databases and 3D models crucial in order to plan and design, OSLO geotechnics integrate all available projects that involve not only Areal geotechnics and design of excavation methods, We make extensive use of GIS, interalia, foundation solutions. knowledge using advanced 3D extensive foundation re-use, but The design of new residential rock support and grouting. databases and digital 3D models in OULU TØNSBERG modelling, GIS and databases. also complex piling grids and areas and large shopping centres all project stages in order to make Special competencies building close to existing structures, usually requires the ability to Field investigations use of all available information. This Our experience from projects SUNDSVALL Infrastructure major waterways as well as urban master large entities. In geotechnics Soil investigations are made by enables us to identify and reduce all over the world enables us to Ramboll provides ground and transport infrastructure. We this culminates in the successful drilling, sampling and mapping, and risks for the benefit of the projects provide a number of specialised engineering expertise for also have an extensive track record collection and evaluation of the the knowledge from these various and our customers. services to our customers. For TAMPERE all aspects of infrastructure of successful projects located information related to sub-soil methods of field investigations is example, in peat areas, we have development for roads, railways, on ground with complex sub- conditions and soil layers as well as compiled from the geotechnical FE modeling and learned to master the specialties HOLLOLA bridges, tunnels, and dams in surface conditions, including the possible foundation alternatives. units across Ramboll. Thus, we have advanced calculations of mass stabilisation, we have all geologies. Our geotechnical presence of other structures, a large amount of sampling devices Finite element modeling offers knowledge about land and rock services include: planning and sensitive archaeology and transport for the production of soil samples Ramboll the opportunity to slides, avalanches, earthquake interpretation of geotechnical infrastructure. Consideration of from disturbed to undisturbed simulate the behaviour of geotechnical engineering and investigations; foundation design; seismic factors is also increasingly samples. We are able to determine foundations when soil/structure know-how of reinforced soil pile foundations; slope engineering; part of our international work. soil parameters either by carrying interaction is important. PLAXIS structures. earthquake engineering; soil- out field measurements or through 2D/3D has recently become one GOTHENBURG ST. PETERSBURG structure interaction; advanced Environmental geotechnics laboratory tests. of the most common tools in modelling; earthworks design Ramboll’s knowledge and geotechnical design. We also have STAVANGER ESPOO and specification; contract technological innovation within Geophysics and groundwater experience with FE software such administration; anchor and soil nail the soil and groundwater area is Geophysical investigation as Geostudio and Phase 2, and design; reinforced soil; and soft based on our experience from techniques help us identify we furthermore use specialised KRISTIANSAND TURKU ground engineering. investigation, risk assessment geological, geotechnical and software such as Geosuite, D-Sheet and remediation of thousands of hydrogeological parameters from and Frew. AALBORG FALUN impacted sites. Ramboll has all the the surface to more than 2,000 01 BBC Broadcasting House MANCHESTER STOCKHOLM phase II excavation in central London, UK. 02 Drilling rig at Beamers LEEDS MALMÖ Rock, Forth Replacement Crossing, Scotland. CHESTER COPENHAGEN 03 Geotechnical soil samples from the investigations for the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, LONDON AARHUS Germany and Denmark. SOUTHAMPTON Ramboll offices with specific Ground engineering expertise Other Ramboll office locations 01 02 03.
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