Following visual signs and subsequent geo scan, the floor slab within the clients dairy plant was found to be suffering from ongoing settlement caused by leaking drains washing away the fine soils. The client also needed to add a new water vat to the slab to optimise the cheese manufacturing, this would require additional loading […]

Geobear were contacted by the Hovis bread production plant in Avonmouth, a collapsed drain beneath the floor slab in the warehouse had allowed water to leak into the soil causing washout and voiding beneath the floor slab. Consequently the slab was unsupported and had began to settle. A cooler was sitting on the slab at […]

Geobear had worked with the client previously to provide ground strengthening to enable the construction of a mezzanine floor to the site. Subsequent to the successful project, the client contacted us to deal with voiding that had occurred beneath the ovens in the factory. A broken drain had led to a washout of the existing […]

Stabilisation of A-road in the South East of England Geobear were recently contracted to deliver ground stabilisation works to a key  A road in South East England. Although the road is modern in construction, sections began to show signs of settlement and with the local county council keen to resurface they were concerned that any […]

We were on site at Harold Wood station recently to fill a void under the ticket office – this video tells the story.

A homeowner in Leeds, UK contacted Geobear to discuss an issue with an extension built onto the side of their property. The one storey extension was built on standard raft foundations adjacent to the perimeter wall of the house. After a number of years small cracks started to appear on the internal walls where the […]