White Young Green (WYG) offers a fully integrated ground investigation and geotechnical design service.  These functions ensure that geotechnical risks on all projects are appropriately assessed and managed. WYG provides a seamless service from investigation and analysis through to construction, supported by analysis techniques, including finite element and soil-structure interaction.

Site Investigation Services

  • Site investigation design, management and interpretative reporting
  • Tailored practical intrusive investigations including specialist access works
  • Production of detailed ground condition logs (to BS5930) and sections using Holebase software
  • Groundwater, ground gas and ground movement installations and monitoring
  • Mining investigations
  • CDM Principal Contractor and CDM Co-ordinator services
  • On-site supervision services
  • Traditional investigations methods, e.g. cable percussion drilling, rotary cored and percussion drilling, trial pitting, window sampling, and dynamic cone penetrometer
  • Full protocol contamination investigations
  • Landfill investigations
  • Hydrogeological investigations
  • Exploration drilling (quarry & coal reserves)
  • Specialist & restricted access / headroom drilling
  • Geophysical investigations
  • In-situ geotechnical testing

Geotechnical Design

  • Geotechnical and geological assessments / studies (including emergency works);
  • Geotechnical analysis (including finite element work);
  • Geotechnical design (foundations, retaining walls, ground anchors, soil nailing, basements, ground improvements and earthworks);
  • Mineworkings investigation, assessment and treatment design;
  • Slope stability analysis, assessment and remedial design; and
  • Project management, expert witness and claims evaluation.