GeoTest Laboratories Ltd , Fairclough House , Church St , Adlington , Lancs , PR7 4EX Tel 01257 481782 , Fax 01257 482291

From September 2008, GeoTest are able to offer a comprehensive ground investigation service ranging from a single day on

site to large scale, long duration contracts in any onshore environment.  We aim to provide a professional and efficient service

to our clients, meeting their requirements with respect to health and safety, programme and financial considerations through

all site, laboratory and reporting aspects of the contract.

Site Investigation

Geotechnical laboratory testing to BS 1377 is carried out in house by our UKAS accredited laboratory at Adlington, enabling

rapid testing and reporting.

GeoTest offers a comprehensive investigation service for both geotechnical and geoenvironmental purposes.  We can offer a

wide range of investigation techniques and services including:

Drilling crews are NVQ qualified and all supervisors and managers hold appropriate CSCS cards together with health and safety

and first aid training.  We have staff at all levels certified to carryout investigation, monitoring and field testing in the rail

environment.

GeoTest can provide digital reports in both Adobe pdf format and as AGS digital data.  We can transfer historic data into AGS

format when required. Professional technical advice and reporting can be offered for geotechnical and geoenvironmental

projects.In conjunction with a range of approved suppliers, we are able to offer an integrated approach to site investigation

contracts involving topographic surveys, UXO detection, by both non-intrusive methods and during exploratory hole formation,

service searches, marine geophysical and hydrographic surveys, borehole wireline logging, cone penetrometer testing,

pressuremeter testing and CCTV surveys.

We appreciate that not all sites are straight forward in terms of access and working areas and that, on occasions, specialist

methods and plant are required to execute the works.  We have comprehensive experience of such techniques when applied

to site investigations including, but not limited to;