SERVICES THAT WE OFFER:
Areas of operation in African
Areas of Operation
Our staff has experience of working on projects in:
South Africa
Namibia
Botswana
Mozambique
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Mali
Swaziland
Lesotho
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Angola
Bear GeoConsultants has the skills and resources to provide services in a variety of fields as outlined below:
- Provides preliminary foundation solutions for housing developments as per NHBRC requirements utilising the National Department of Housing’s Geotechnical Site Investigations for Housing Developments Generic Specification GFSH-2.
- Each stand is classified using the NHBRC classification system.
- Certification of foundations to ensure that the correct solution and construction procedures have been followed.
- The Company can provide foundation solutions for specific structures ranging from houses and artificially surfaced playing fields to large structures such as silos, mills and multi-storey buildings.
- These are carried out to ascertain the hazard associated with the undermining that has taken place below a site.
- Dolomite stability investigations are aimed at determining the potential for sinkholes and subsidences to develop.
- The outcome of the stability investigation establishes the hazard level and determines the type of development that will be allowed as well as the density of development.
- These are carried out as required by SANS 1936.
- Dolomite Risk Management systems can be developed for the client as required by SANS 1936 in certain instances.
- Centreline investigations for powerlines, roads, railway lines, pipelines and canals.
- Locate borrow pits and hard rock quarries for use in constructing roads and railway lines.
- Ascertain the geotechnical reasons for cracks in buildings and provide remediation solutions.
- Used for zoning land in terms of its potential to be developed.
- Required for new waste disposal sites and cemeteries, to ensure that the site is feasible and to eliminate pollution.