Soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of air, water, inorganic solid particles and organic substance. Therefore it exposes much more complicated behavior than the other solid construction materials such as steel and concrete. Geotechnical engineering deals with the determination of the forces acting on the soil mass and analysis of the behaviour of the soil mass under these forces. In some cases, it seeks to understand behaviour of the soil being used as the construction material in the works. Geotechnical engineering mainly concerns with design of shallow and deep foundations, slope stability, retaining walls, embankments, reservoirs, deep excavations, tunnel and shafts.

Adesol starts dealing with a geotechnical problem with a review of client’s project needs and interpreting the site investigation of soil, rock, fault distribution and bedrock properties at the location of the proposed construction activities. Site investigations have critical importance to gain an understanding of the area which the activities will take place. Later we produce the necessary design calculations and the drawings conforming with Eurocode 7, British Standards and current to code of practice.