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Infrastructure

Planning road, rail, airports and sea ports Keller Geotechnique has designed and constructed retaining structures, prevented water ingress to underpasses, built soil nailed slip roads, retaining walls, stabilised under highway mine workings and installed ground anchors through railway bridge embankments. 

Flood alleviation projects have also formed part of our portfolio controlling ground water with slurry wall techniques has combined to the success of several river capacity improvements.

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M1 Widening junctions 25-28

Keller Geotechnique, installed over 4900 soil nails over a 11.5 mile stretch for the major M1 widening scheme between junctions 25 & 28 near Nottingham.

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Jet Grouting to Reduce Water Flow through a Secant Pile Wall Joint at Gillingham, Kent

Groundwater was flowing into an underpass section of new road from the junction of two secant piled walls.

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M11/A120 Stansted Slip Road - Soil Nailing & Facing Works

As part of the design and construction of a new slip road of the M11 at Stansted Airport, May Gurney Construction Ltd required the design of a series of retaini

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A2 Dartford Tunnel

Keller Geotechnique has used for the first time, a system of fibre optics developed in conjunction with Cambridge University, to measure the strain developed in soil nail installat

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Permanent Soil Nails and Sprayed Concrete Wall

As part of the construction of a new combined retail, office and residential building, the formation of a cutting was required into the existing hillside. The

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M4/M5 Improvement Schemes, Settlement Ponds - Soil Nailing and Facing Works

At two locations on the M4, embankments required steepening to 60 degrees to allow construction of the settlement ponds.

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East Midlands Parkway, Ratcliffe on Soar

East Midlands Parkway station at Ratcliffe on Soar, was built entirely beside the live Midland Mainline, which links Sheffield with London

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Luton MSCP

Keller Geotechnique were appointed by Osborne ltd to install 276 piles for the Network Rail development, comprising a new Multi storey car park at Luton Railway Station.

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Mine Stabilisation Works at Blackheath, London

The collapse of the ground surface into historic Chalk workings led to the closure of the A2, a major road into London.

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Permanent Ground Anchors & Minipiles at Turner Rise, Colchester

As part of the upgrade of the eastern abutment at Turner Rise Railway Bridge, Jackson Civil Engineering Ltd were planning to install jacked reinforced concrete

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Temporary Groundwater Control using Slurry Walls at the Maidenhead to Windsor Flood Alleviation Project

As part of the flood defences between Maidenhead and Windsor a new channel was being constructed to supplement the River Thames’ capacity. This involved many r

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A249 Sheerness To Stockbury (M2) Improvements

As part of the design and construction of a new road embankment, Carillion Construction Ltd required the design of a temporary retaining wall. KGE proposed the

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Devon Deep Moor Landfill Cut-Off Wall

The nature of the ground conditions and very restricted working space called for a novel approach to installing a hydraulic in-ground barrier and leachate colle

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Dockways Waste Disposal Facility - Newport, Base Stabilisation by Deep Dry Mixing (DDM)

Newport City Council was proposing an extension to the Dockways Landfill Site in Newport. However due to the soft sub grade soils they required improvement of

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Dry Soil Mixing for Stabilisation of Ground for construction of Foul Sewer

As a part of construction of a new Foul Pumping Station at Thamesmead, London ground improvement was required to allow a new sewer to be constructed through a b

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River Tame Railway

Systems Geotechnique use revolutionary Glass fibre flat bar anchors to support sheet pile wall.