Reclamation engineering services, delivered on site.

What we offer

Two senior reclamation engineers with 40 years of combined experience, all of it on site, embedded with contractor teams. Integrated reclamation engineering — from material source and hydraulic placement through ground improvement, monitoring and handover. The specialisms below are the ones that actually decide whether a reclamation project succeeds:

• Reclamation execution planning — fill sequencing, reclamation cells, bund arrangements, discharge positioning, surcharge staging and the handover sequence: how the reclamation will actually be built, linked to ground behaviour.
• Soft soils & settlement — settlement design and management on soft marine clays, the defining problem of reclamation.
• Seismic design — liquefaction assessment and seismic design of reclaimed land and port infrastructure.
• Carbonate & pumice sands — crushable, compressible soils that break standard correlations. Our deepest specialism — see carbonate and pumice sands engineering.
• Rock works & dredgeability — rock placement, dredgeability assessment, marine earthworks — plus quarry assessment, rock source approval and rock quality verification for revetments and armour.
• Ground improvement — vibrocompaction, vibroflotation, dynamic compaction, high energy impact compaction (HEIC), stone columns, PVD and surcharge: method trials, selection, design, QA/QC. See ground improvement for reclaimed land.
• Soil laboratory setup — establishment and management of on-site laboratories for remote and marine projects.
• CPT & seismic CPT — execution, interpretation and QA/QC of CPT campaigns, plus AGS-format data management. See CPT and seismic CPT services.
• Marine & offshore ground investigation — nearshore and offshore investigation supervision: drilling, CPT, vibrocores and sampling; HSE compliance; coordination with vessel crews, contractors and project teams; logging, interpretation and reporting. See CPT and seismic CPT services.
• Port structures & quay walls — geotechnical support for quay walls and port infrastructure on reclaimed land, where the ground is the critical path.
• Coastal interface coordination — where wave, overtopping, scour or drainage assessments are needed, we coordinate with trusted coastal and hydraulic specialists and keep the geotechnical interface tight.
• Deep excavations & temporary works — retaining walls and excavation support design in soft soils, where the design method matters as much as the soil parameters.
• Landfall & pipeline interfaces — landfall design support and shore-pull engineering where pipelines and cables make landfall through or beside reclamation works, including interface with dredging and fill sequencing.
• Engineering management — technical authority, design review and approval, engineering team and deliverable management on site, subcontractor and laboratory oversight: senior engineering leadership without a permanent head-count.
• Verification toolkit — plate load tests, in-situ field vane, permeability testing, field density testing, geotextile field testing, Inspection and Test Plans written and executed in-house.
• Environmental monitoring — turbidity and water quality compliance during fill placement and dredging works.
• Scoped technical reviews — design review, calculation checking and geotechnical data QA, delivered remotely or embedded with your team. Day-rate priced, tightly scoped.
• Advanced lab testing — Rowe cell, triaxial, cyclic and crushability testing for design and verification.

Who it's for

Dredging and reclamation contractors, marine civil contractors and port developers who need senior geotechnical capability on site — for a defined scope, a difficult phase, or the full life of a project. We work the way you do: as part of the team that has to deliver.

How engagements work

• Contractor day rates, direct engagement — no retained consultancy, no overhead.
• Mobilisation planned around your project's terms, visas and logistics.
• Embedded with your team from day one; no learning curve, no layers.
• One engineer or both together — your choice. Engagements from one week upward.
• On site worldwide, or remote for reviews, data QA and engineering management.
• Professionally registered engineers; analysis and design on industry-standard geotechnical software and calculation workflows.

Capacity & continuity

We are two people, deliberately. Every engagement is delivered by the two engineers you spoke to — no junior rotation, no bench billed at senior rates. We scope capacity honestly: if a project needs more senior time than we can commit, we say so before you commit.

Verification

We understand you will want to verify before committing — we expect it. On request we provide anonymised CVs and a confidential project reference list with client contacts, under NDA if you prefer. Ask for them in your first email.

Not consultants who visit for a week and write a report. If you need the engineers who have already solved it, get in touch.