Wee Notes & Breaking News
These are William’s notes and comments as the year progresses.
Gas Clam
Whilst there are measures that we can take to mitigate the problem of soil/mine gas to a development the first key is to assess the ground conditions correctly. Monitoring of borehole standpipes takes time and, if you are not careful, you can miss the impact of changing atmospheric pressure on the gas coming to surface.
In order to provide improved data, shorten the monitoring period and ultimately arrive at a more cost effective solution, our Alex Muir was able to purchase a number of ‘gas clams’.
These machines fit into the borehole standpipe and take many readings over a week or two week period thus allowing us to provide the best service to our clients.
Rain on Grid?
Speaking to Jonny earlier this morning, he is well advanced on a rain on grid hydraulic model which is ideal for assessing minor watercourses across a site. Key to this is the increasingly detailed available LiDAR dataset which, once we have truthed it using our in-house survey equipment, provides an ideal platform for the analysis. This is very much ‘here be dragons’ type of work and Jonny brings considerable skill to his work on a daily basis.
February 2025
Looking forward to restarting earthworks at a site in Bishopton. Here we are ensuring that the upfilling of the site does not result in excessive compression of the Clyde Alluvial deposits. We have been carrying out such settlement analysis work for several years as part of the overall Masterplan and have built up considerable expertise in this area.
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