Douglas Partners services

Douglas Partners can provide geotechnical analysis and design services for a range of building and infrastructure projects including: Industrial, commercial and residential buildings, both low and high rise; Deep basements; Roads and railways including pavements, bridges, tunnels, embankments and cuttings; Mines and dams together with associated infrastructures.

Douglas Partners can provide services during construction in order to verify that ground conditions are consistent with those assumed in design: Bored pile / pier inspections; Settlement and lateral displacement monitoring; Vibration assessment and monitoring; Slope creep movement assessment; Field testing of foundation soils in open excavation; Rock slope mapping and assessment of face support requirements; Compaction monitoring and field density testing.

Douglas Partners owns and operates a comprehensive range of plant and drilling equipment and ‘state-of-the-art’ in situ testing equipment, ensuring a high standard of service, project control and reliability for our clients. Douglas Partners is also a recognised leader in cone penetration technology in Australia.

Douglas Partners provides an integrated range of services to clients requiring innovative and economic solutions in the quarrying industry.

Douglas Partners provides services to clients seeking to determine the physical and chemical characteristics of marine and estuarine sediments and their potential to impact on the environment by: Chemical contamination of the water column or the surrounding marine environment in which they are deposited; Suspended sediment content in the water; Fluvial processes.

Douglas Partners employs the best available technologies and methodologies to assess, and if necessary, provide specialist advice on the clean up of contaminated sites.

Douglas Partners provides services to clients requiring: Waste emission, monitoring inventory. Occupational Health & Safety audits; Waste minimisation; Environmental improvement; Liaison with regulatory authorities & communities; Waste stream assessments / audits; Resource recovery; Hazardous waste management; Waste management planning.

Douglas Partners provides remediation services to a wide range of clients including: State waste management authorities; local government authorities; state government departments & authorities; federal government departments; private landfill operators; land developers; industrial/contaminated landowners.

Many sites are located in isolated areas with little existing infrastructure. Establishing groundwater supplies for domestic use, mine operations and irrigation is generally more cost effective than constructing surface storage. Groundwater also generally requires less treatment. DP has extensive experience in locating, developing and managing groundwater supplies for towns, mines, industry, resorts and irrigation.

Potential sources of groundwater contamination include landfill sites (sanitary and hazardous wastes), leaks and spills from petroleum, septic and chemical storage tanks, tailings dams, radioactive waste and the use of herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers for agricultural purposes. Prevention detection and control requires effective containment and management techniques.