ETTL Engineers
& Consultants Inc.


Geotechnical Engineering Services


Highly experienced professional engineers and other experts at ETTL are at the
service of our clients to carry out a great variety of geotechnical services.
Architects, civil engineers and constructors of buildings, roadways and a multitude
of other structures have availed themselves of these services not only in East Texas and Western Arkansas, but in a variety of other regions and states as well.


The above photo was taken during a weekly meeting of ETTL's geotechnical engineeritng department. The group shown is comprised of four professional engineers and three graduates in engineering. Monitoring the meeting is Brandon Quinn, ETTL's VP and manager of engineering services.


ETTL's Geotechnical Services Include:

1. Test Borings.
2. Soil and Rock Core Sampling.
3. Groundwater Monitoring Well and Piezometer Installation.
4. Groundwater Seepage Studies.
5. Hydrogeologic and Geological Studies.
6. Laboratory and Field Soil Testing.
7. Foundation and Earthwork Recommendations for projects ranging from airports, bridges, communications and transmission towers, and dams ... to highways, parking lots, parks and zoos ... to manufacturing and educational facilities, office buildings, hospitals, prisons, stores, malls, restaurants, libraries, museums and warehouses.
8. Pavement Design.
9. Soil Resistivity Testing Services, especially for grounding system design and for existing grounding system installations.
10. Forensic Investigations and Expert Witness Services.

 


(Left) ETTL drilling team taking soil samples for a section of new highway near Austin, Texas -- destined, after some years, to become part of the Trans-Texas Corridor. Project called for ETTL to carry out laboratory analyses and then develop foundation recommendations for bridge locations, retaining walls, embankments, high-mast illumination poles, toll entry structures, and culverts, plus pavement designs for all of these elements.
(Right) Another ETTL team carries out geotechnical drilling for a four-story 175,000 sq. ft. multi-purpose building to be completed at new Texas A&M campus in Terxarkana.


Check links in the following table for additional information:

Geotechnical Laboratory
and Field Soil Testing		 Field Equipment for Installing Piezometers and Monitoring Wells
Field Equipment
for Geotechnical Projects
(Including ETTL's Drilling Rigs)
 Pavement Design
Services
Soil Resistivity
Testing Services		 Forensic Investigations
and Expert Witness Services


For in-depth information about ETTL's geotechnical engineering services
and/or to schedule a geotechnical study, contact Robert Duke, P.E.,
Jack Whilden, TJ Vickery, or James Aldredge

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