Port and Offshore Geotechnics
Scott Wilson has long standing expertise in the geotechnics of
port and offshore works including quays, jetties, enclosed docks
and associated facilities, as well as marine structures such as
windfarms.
Scott Wilson has built up considerable expertise in the
specification and implementation of offshore investigation using
drilling and boring rigs, cone penetration testing, vibrocorers,
seismic refraction, side scan sonar and echo sounder, both in
intertidal waters and off shore. Such work has been carried out in
British and Irish coastal waters, in Africa, the Middle East and
Sri Lanka.
Geotechnical input to new port works throughout the world has
included investigation, design and construction supervision of:
- New quay structures and other major retaining walls.
- Deepening existing quayside berths.
- Piled and solid jetty structures.
- Breakwaters.
- Dock gates, crane rails and other harbour facilities.
Our success in both port and offshore windfarm technology is
based on our thorough appreciation of the coastal and offshore
environment including the depositional and erosional processes,
which have created, and will often continue to modify, the
shoreline, the seabed morphology and the soils in which structures
are founded. This knowledge is vital to the planning of
geotechnical and geophysical surveys and to the development of
successful geotechnical solutions.
