Chipping Sodbury Railway Cutting

A ground investigation was required to provide geotechnical data for the design of remedial works on a rail cutting.

Project Details:

Twenty-seven exploratory locations were carried out using CCGI Fraste rotary rigs, a CCGI windowless sampler rig and hand pitting.

The program of works included:

• CCGI providing engineering services
• 5 No rotary boreholes.
• In-situ testing including SPTs
• Rope access to locations on the slope.
• 3 No Windowless Sampler boreholes.
• 19 No Test pits
• 19 No Dynamic probes
• Geotechnical laboratory testing.
• Factual Reporting