SERC Rail – Ground Investigation
Introduction:
The Ground and structural investigation was successfully undertaken in programme and in budget. Including an efficient interface with Network Rail.
Details:

ESP are currently appointed as geotechnical experts to provide information on the ground conditions beneath the site in order to allow for the design of a new embankment and sidings for the railway alongside the existing line, and a new railway track and sidings into the new SITA works to the east.
Services Provided:
- Cone Penetration Testing, with dissipation testing.
- MOSTAP soil sampling from the CPT rig.
- Cable percussion drilling with the collection of undisturbed samples, Standard Penetration Testing and the installation of groundwater instrumentation.
- In-situ CBR measurement, using a CBR rig and/or plate load tests, and dynamic cone penetration (DCP) testing.
- Resistivity surveying for an earthing structure.
- Monitoring of installations.