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Geotechnical Services

Our team of geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists has the technical capability to provide creative, practical, and technologically sound recommendations suited to your budget. Because we have conducted so many investigations throughout California, we are well-equipped to use our previous knowledge of local area soil and geologic conditions to provide cost effective investigations and recommendations for any type of development, land use or restoration project.

Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

Our design, recommendation, and testing experience encompasses, but is not exclusive to the following:

  • Shallow and deep foundations
  • Slope stability analysis
  • Retaining walls
  • Landslide & storm damage repairs
  • Geologic and seismic hazard evaluations
  • AC and concrete pavement design
  • Liquefaction mitigation
  • Subgrade stabilization
  • General and specialized earthwork
  • Hillside grading
  • Site drainage
  • Percolation testing
  • Natural or synthetic turf fields
  • Septic system and leach line design input
  • Construction observation and testing
  • Forensic studies
  • Peer review of geologic hazard studies, including fault hazard assessments
  • Peer review of grading plans
  • Peer review of geotechnical investigations

 Having provided our services throughout California for over 55 years, our geotechnical engineers and engineering geology staff have worked on a tremendous variety of project types, including, but not limited to:

  • Highways, airports, roads & bridges
  • Water & wastewater treatment facilities
  • Hospital & medical buildings
  • Solar installations
  • Office & retail complexes
  • Water storage and delivery systems
  • Commercial and industrial developments
  • Solid waste management facilities
  • K-12 schools & colleges
  • Dams & levees
  • Telecommunication towers & facilities
  • Parks & recreation facilities
  • Parking structures

BSK’s geotechnical and geologic expertise is valued by our clients from the preliminary planning stages of a project through design and construction.  Our involvement in the construction support phases of a project means changing conditions can be addressed in a timely fashion, reducing costly project delays.  Quality and efficiency is heightened by providing a seamless transition from one phase of the project to the next.

To take continuity one step further, our engineering offices maintain soils testing laboratories which enable our engineers to direct, observe, and participate in the testing programs.  This greatly improves the reliability of the laboratory test data.  As an added benefit, our three conveniently located soils testing laboratories can respond quickly and efficiently, even with tight schedules.

Geospatial Services

In today’s data intensive environment, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are the primary tools used by BSK for spatial data analysis. Use of GIS allows BSK to augment our other areas of investigation using advanced spatial tools and data sets.

GIS transforms the traditional engineering project by synthesizing environmental, geologic, geotechnical, water quality, and customer data. GIS provides a better means to visualizing data for forecasting and planning applications.

BSK applies GIS technology for projects that are multi-disciplinary requiring the collaboration of data from:

  • Geotechnical soil classifications
  • Seismic investigations
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Analytical test results
  • Quality and quantity of water resources
  • Lidar
  • HEC-RAS

BSK’s value engineering and GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

Geotechnical Resources

  • A Message to Civil and Structural Engineers – (Download PDF)
  • Geoprofessional Business Association  https://www.geoprofessional.org/
  • Historical Aerials (www.historicaerials.com)
  • California Geological Survey Special Publication 117A – Guidelines for Evaluating and Mitigating Seismic Hazards in California (2008) (http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/shzp/webdocs/Documents/sp117.pdf)
  • California Geological Survey – Note 48 (http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/information/publications/cgs_notes/note_48/Documents/Note_48.pdf)
  • California Geological Survey – Regulatory Maps (http://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/index.html?map=regulatorymaps)
  • 2010 California Fault Map (http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/cgs_history/Pages/2010_faultmap.aspx)

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