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Using our powerful rotary drilling rigs PENNINE are now able to carry out in-situ soil mixing. This process can be used either to improve the bearing capacity of weak alluvial or organic soils, or as a means of contamination control.

Soft wet clays and organic deposits can be improved by lime mixing, either as a wet or dry process; columns of soil mixed with lime reinforce the strata being treated, thus improving the overall bearing capacity and reducing settlements. The lime is introduced through the drill stem and there is minimal spoil generated at the surface.

PENNINE can use the same equipment to introduce cement/clay mixes to form cut-offs around ‘plumes’ of contamination, or as training walls to ensure that ground water movement through such ‘plumes’ is directed to a specific location. The use of site specific chemical solutions can change the nature of contaminants making them non-reactive, they can then remain on site; alternatively mixes can be designed to provide a reactive barrier. As potentially contaminated ground water passes through these barriers the contaminants are removed.

These treatment methods do not require the removal of spoil, a costly exercise on any project, and can be utilised in conjunction with other foundation services offered by PENNINE to enable developers and builders to economically develop brownfield sites.

For advice on the most cost effective way to get your next project ‘out of the ground’, contact your nearest PENNINE office and benefit from our integrated design and construction service. PENNINE are specialists in all aspects of ground engineering and can also offer vibro stone or concrete columns, dynamic compaction, band drains, cfa piling and Penpile®, the no noise, no spoil auger displacement pile.