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Liquefaction is a common problem in earthquake-prone areas where soils lose strength due to the ground motion and behave like a viscous liquid, damaging overlying structures.
Major civil engineering schemes often involve working below the water table. Controlling or preventing water seepage is vital to allow construction to proceed. Keller has a range of techniques to deploy to provide effective cut-offs and to seal joints and fissures in the ground or below ground…
Keller has provided thousands of homeowners, developers and contractors with geotechnical solutions to both large and small residential projects.
Weak, compressible soils may require structural elements, specifically heavy foundations, that transfer loads through to underlying competent soils or rock. Whether an open site or inside an existing structure, Keller can provide the optimal heavy foundation solution for your project. This…
Underpinning provides additional support to existing foundations that are unable to safely support existing or future loads. Keller can provide the optimal repair or solution to remediate the structure.
Jet Grouting uses high velocity fluid jets to construct cemented soil of varying geometries in the ground.
Unstable ground can cause instability both in the temporary and permanent case. We have a range of solutions that can be deployed to strengthen the soils.
Whether natural or man-made soils sometimes present voids that may create sinkholes. Depending on the situation, and the quality of the soils, various techniques can be adapted to provide a permanent solution.
Ground anchors transfer tensile loads and consist of an anchor head, a free length and a bond length. The free length enables the anchor to be, a big advantage for excavation pits with very low horizontal deflections.
Single bore multiple anchor (SBMA) are ground anchors with multiple (more than one) bonds.
Contiguous pile walls consist of piles arranged in a way that a gap remains between the piles. Where required the soil between the piles can be stabilised during excavation by either installing timber lagging in front of the excavated soil or by building a reinforced shotcrete or concrete block…
Sheet piling retains soil, using steel sheets with interlocking edges and is applied using both vibratory and vibration-free installation rigs.
During construction it is often necessary to form a stable excavation and to ensure that any associated movement will not damage neighbouring structures or utilities. Keller offers flexible solutions to solve even highly complex excavation support problems both in a temporary or in a permanent…
Deep soil mixing (DSM), improves the characteristics of weak soils by mechanically mixing them with cementitious binder slurry.
Soil nailing uses grouted, tension-resisting steel elements (nails) to reinforce in situ soils and creating a gravity retaining wall for permanent or temporary excavation support.
When wet soils swell and can’t expand downwards or sideways, the soil rises up and exposes the upper surface, effectively the opposite of subsidence. While displacement may be relatively small, ground heave can still lead to serious structural damage. Keller can provide the best solution to…
Compensation or fracture grouting is the injection of a cement slurry grout into the soil creating and filling fractures that then lift the overlying soil and structures.
Driven cast in-situ (DCIS) piles are constructed by driving a closed-ended hollow steel or concrete casing into the ground and then filling it with concrete.
