How do I learn more about soil mixing?
If you would you like to know more about soil mixing a ground improvement solution that remediates poor ground in situ and is an alternative to consider when you are looking at piling, excavate and cart away, dynamic compaction, surcharge etc., you can attend one of our CPD UK accredited CPD seminars on soil mixing.
Learning more about soil mixing may be relevant if you have any forthcoming construction projects that have poor quality ground and need remediating but the costs to remove the contamination or poor quality site soil is prohibitive, or the cost of piling is also proving a barrier.
Using binders for various applications we carry out soil mixing of the existing site soils to either produce large diameter stabilised columns, mass mixing for full depth treatment, mass mixing over the top of the columns to provide a transfer mattress, trench mixing to provide cut-off walls or even PRB walls, we do not remove materials from site, this has significant advantages of reducing CO2 emissions, improves site safety with less vehicle movements, improves sustainability and is recycling on a grand scale.
Soil mixing also reduces project times and costs as well as your carbon footprint on construction projects compared to other more traditional ground engineering methods. You are treating the ground in-situ and will not incur costly excavate and cart away charges.
So why consider soil mixing for your projects over other more traditional ground remediation methods::
- Reduces construction programme
- No need to excavate and cart away
- Less vehicle movements on site so improves health and safety
- Zero vibration during construction
- Minimal spoil removal
- Wide range of soils can be treated compared to other solutions
- Soil can be used as construction material
- No need to bring costly and bulky materials on site
- Environmental – Reduction of Carbon Footprint
- Effective on different soils, including soft soils, flood plains, contaminated land, peat, silts and alluvium etc.
- Increases bearing pressure, controls settlement and reduces permeability
During the CPD seminar we explain how soil mixing technology has helped on several projects over the last few years from road construction and bridge abutements through to dealing with contaminated and poor-quality ground, flood alleviation and slope stabilisation.
Deep Soil Mixing Ltd has undertaken a wide variety of projects including large infrastructure projects such as the Mersey Gateway and HS2 through to a wide variety of other projects from housing through to retail developments and have practical experience in the design and construction in all of the following soil mixed solutions.
- Ground improvement to reduce settlement: factory developments, retail parks, roads, car parks, wind turbines sites
- Shear stabilisation of embankments: railways, rivers, roads
- Stabilised corridors: for installation of services: sewers, pumping mains, water pipes, gas mains
- Retaining walls: cantilevered, mass fill, and king posts
- Impermeable cut-off walls: flood embankments, canal walls and bases, cofferdams, containment of contaminants within an identified area of pollution
- Permeable reactive barriers (PRB’s): for treatment of contaminated ground water
- Stabilisation of contaminated ground: locking in contaminants in a mass mixed operation
- Vibration control: soil mixed barriers installed to reduce the transfer of irritating vibrations, i.e. railways, industrial factories, construction operations
If you think this is something your team would be interested in learning more about contact us now or email Stephanie Freeman on stephanie@deepsoilmixing.co.uk .
