Presto Geosystems articles

A smarter way to build and maintain heavy-duty parking lots

When you plan or purchase a commercial truck parking lot, you need it to perform reliably year after year. Issues like potholes, rutting, and poor drainage are more than cosmetic. They disrupt operations, increase maintenance costs, and shorten the lifespan of the lot.

Fully loaded trucks, frequent turning, and long parking times create constant stress on the surface. Traditional asphalt or aggregate

The U.S. Dept of Energy (DOE) classifies critical materials and minerals based on their importance to energy and supply risk. With the new U.S. administration taking office in January 2025, there has been a renewed effort to focus on strengthening the supply of these resources both domestically and abroad.

Innovative Site Solutions for Civil Engineering and Construction Projects

When faced with challenging site conditions—whether it’s weak soils, steep slopes, or erosion-prone channels—finding an efficient, long-term solution that minimizes maintenance is essential. Geocells offer just that. These innovative cellular confinement systems (CCS) are a proven solution for load support, retaining walls, slope stabilization, and channel protection applicatio

When contaminated material such as landfill waste or contaminated soil is encountered, there are typically two options available - removal of the material or placing a “cap” over it. In most cases, capping is the easier and more cost-effective of the two options. Caps serve to isolate the contaminated material, preventing people and wildlife from coming into contact with it.

Energy infrastructure is critical to the functioning of modern societies, and its protection against natural disasters and environmental threats is a top priority. Climate change exacerbates these disaster risks, with extreme weather conditions and wildfires being of particular concern, considering potential damage to the energy infrastructure and disruption of energy supply. Wildfires cause rapid, severe destruction, and, aside from damage to infrastructure, can impact our climate, vegetatio

In a rapidly changing world, maintaining and improving our transportation infrastructure’s resilience and sustainability has become a critical concern for civil engineers. Climate change and increasing frequency of natural disasters present an ongoing challenge to the durability of our infrastructure. In the context of road and bridge embankments, protecting these structures can be of paramount significance to the safety and welfare of the public. These structures are often subjected to

Flood Protection Plan

To meet federal requirements for flood mapping of levee-protected areas, a levee reconstruction project for the Indianapolis Southport Advanced Wastewater Treatment (AWT) plant along Little Buck Creek was part of a more extensive Deep Rock Tunnel Connector project—one of the largest combined sewer overflow projects for the City of Indianapolis.

The project included plans to protect the Southport ATW plant and wastewater-processing p

With the increasing demand for clean energy, there is a growing interest in repurposing underutilized lands for solar farm developments, particularly abandoned mines, capped landfills, brownfields, and other unused areas. These locations offer a unique opportunity to transform unused spaces into sources of renewable energy, and can be particularly enticing because they are often situated near established transmission infrastructure. This makes the interconnection process simpler and more cost

Mine Site Erosion Problems

One of the largest nickel mining sites in the world is located on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. Due to the size of the mining project and the terrain of the site, significant cut-and-fill work for civil engineering structures was unavoidable.

Building roads, housing, and other critical infrastructure is a great responsibility taken on by engineers, architects and project owners. Ensuring that these structures are safe and reliable for years and decades is of the utmost importance at all stages of design and construction.