Services
SchonewaldEA’s engineering specializations include traditional geotechnical, transportation geotechnics, earthwork/ geosynthetics, soft soils, and geotechnical instrumentation and provides a full range of services to our clients.
Project-Specific Subsurface Evaluations
Background Preparation
- Perform site reconnaissance; research publications; review available historical information
Comprehensive subsurface exploration programs
Work with client to develop site-specific program to achieve project objectives, from pre-mobilization to preparation of logs that meet MaineDOT requirements.
- Land-based: on & off existing alignments
- Water- / barge-based
- Traditional in-situ testing
- Soft-soil specific: undisturbed samples & in-situ strength testing
Geotechnical laboratory testing programs
Develop and manage simple to complex programs to test soil and rock. We select test types and laboratory parameters to address project design objectives.
- Index testing
- Soil & rock strength testing
- Consolidation testing
Data Compilation
- Subsurface profiles; data plots
Subcontracted Services
Have developed relationships with well-qualified drilling and laboratory subcontractors.
Analyses & Recommendations
Full array of analyses to develop site- and project-specific geotechnical design parameters and recommendations.
- LRFD & ASD design platforms
- Stability & settlement evaluations
- Soft soil mitigation design
- Design of geotechnical features & selection of parameters for use by structural designers
- Geotechnical instrumentation design to monitor construction-phase & long-term performance
- Earthwork and geosynthetic design development & recommendations
- Grading concepts; drainage provisions; pavement analysis
Design Documents
Preparation of comprehensive and detail-oriented documents for review by clients, State and Federal review authorities, and contractors.
- Basis-of-design reports
- Supporting calculations & plans such as boring location plans and interpretive subsurface profiles
- Project-specific design details, specifications & special provisions
- Cost estimating support
Construction Phase Support
We provide construction support which ranges from as-needed support for specialty geotechnical items, to serving as owner’s representative and construction resident.
- Pre-construction meeting presentations
- Review submittals & address requests for information
- Address on-site issues related to site conditions and/or geotechnical project aspects
- Monitor, document, and reduce specialty geotechnical testing
- Monitor construction performance
- Develop and implement geotechnical instrumentation programs to monitor field performance; install instrumentation, including slope inclinometers, vibrating wire piezometers, conventional and vibrating wire settlement systems; monitor, reduce, and assess monitoring data
- Heavy civil building & earthwork construction experience
Client Support
SchonewaldEA offers its clients a host of engineering support – from completing quality assurance technical reviews of reports prepared by other geo-professionals, to preparing permit documents and completing abutter notifications, to supporting an industrial client’s on-going operations.