Raison Foster provides a high quality service founded on combined experience of over 50 years in the geotechnical and foundation engineering. The Company can provide a full design service in addition to practical advice and an independent checking service for large projects. The Company can provide assistance at pre-tender stage and subsequent construction design stage to contractors and sub contractors. Geotechnical solutions involving more than one geotechnical system or alternative solutions can be provided. Construction specifications and CAD drawings can be provided as part of the package.
The Company uses fully licensed state-of-the-art software to provide a professional service to its clients.
Services provided for Retaining Walls include:-
- A full design service covering a range of retaining wall systems, including embedded pile walls, diaphragm walls, gravity structures, reinforced concrete cantilever, crib walls and reinforced soil.
- Design for embedded pile walls covers stability and deflection analysis using state of the art software. Design to BS 8002, CIRIA 104 and BD 42/00.
- Design of steel sheet piling.
- Full structural design and analysis of the reinforced concrete pile section to BS 8110, BS 5400 and BD 42/00.
- Capping and waling beam design, including provision of reinforcement drawings
- Design of ground anchorages to BS 8081
- Advice on retaining wall options at tender and detailed design stage.
Software Resources
- Software resources include Oasys software STAWAL and FREW.
- Finite element analysis available using SAFE.
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