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‘Now you see it’ – ECG uses Ground Penetrating Radar to locate underground services

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:50:00 +0000

ECG have recently been out tracing underground utilities on a long-established train manufacturing facility. We certainly raised a few eyebrows walking up and down in lines, pushing what appeared to many from a distance to be an empty sack barrow!

‘It’s all in the detail’ – ECG develops bespoke in-house Plate Bearing Test apparatus

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:47:00 +0000

Due to an increasing number of projects requiring Plate Bearing Tests for the detailed design of floor slabs, crane bases and dynamically loaded foundations, ECG have recently designed and developed their own bespoke Plate Bearing Test apparatus.

‘All Aboard’ – Geotechnical slope stability assessment within a Victorian-age railway cutting

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:39:50 +0000

ECG were commissioned to back-analyse the sudden and unexpected failure of a section of former railway cutting in North Yorkshire in order to determine how and why it happened and to use this understanding as a predictive risk assessment tool along the remaining section of cutting to identify potential areas of future instability.

‘Back to School’ – ECG supporting new classroom development in Huddersfield

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 08:30:00 +0000

As part of the Governments drive to get the Nations children back to school, ECG have been undertaking geotechnical assessment for facilitating the installation of a new modular classroom facility at a school in Huddersfield.