Last week our STEM Ambassador Chris Griffith was invited to King Edward VI Grammar School to discuss her job as a Senior Consulting Engineer for Geo-Environmental Services Ltd with their A Level Geology classes. She explained what Phase 1 Desk studies are and the importance of understanding the environmental setting of a potential development site. She went into detail about [...]
Congratulations to Chris for being approved as a registered STEM ambassador, Chris is passionate about getting young people involved with our industry. According to the latest Construction Skills Network (CSN) report an extra 225,000 construction workers may be needed by 2027. If we can’t encourage more young people to consider jobs in our industry, we will be unable to deliver [...]
We would like to thank everyone who has done business with us this year, Geo-Envorinmental wishes you all a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please note our opening hours over Christmas and the New Year: We will be closed from December 22nd 2022 reopening on January 3rd 2023.
The very seasonal weather has not been without its obstacles! We hope everyone is taking the necessary precautions and staying safe and well. Here is our Utility Clearance specialist James at a jog in Cambridge earlier this week. Walking in a Wokingham wonderland. The view in Wokingham was taken by our Principal Engineer Shaun during a site [...]
After what seems to have been a very long wait, whilst we got contracts sorted out, we are finally moving into our new second office in Hatfield Peverel. The new Hatfield Peveril office will allow us to have an office presence to the north and south of the M25. We saw this as an essential part of our strategy to [...]
Many thanks to Katie Brayne, our Assistant Director for the Eastern Region for organising the coffee morning at our office for MacMillan Cancer Support. Also, a big thanks to everyone both in and outside Geo-Environmental who brought cakes. We managed to raise over £250 for MacMillan Cancer Support and we still have donations coming in.
Many thanks to Tom Willis and Samantha Woolven for hosting the IOD at the event last night at Shoreham Port as part of Sustainability Week. It was a really interesting event, especially fascinating to understand the ethos of the port as acting as a hub for jobs and businesses in the local community and its vision for green hydrogen [...]
The project needed to determine the lining thickness of the railway tunnel and what material was behind it, as well as to prove the thickness of solid sandstone above the tunnel. We employed a rail-mounted Mobile Elevated Working Platform (MEWP) to get the drilling crew into place, who used handheld drills to extract cores from the tunnel lining.
Following the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the country is now in a period of national mourning which lasts until the end state funeral on Monday, 19 September 2022. This day has been declared a national public holiday. As we join the nation in paying our respects to the Queen during the state funeral, all of our [...]
As part of Shoreham Port’s Sustainability Week, the Sussex Branch of the Institute of Directors has been invited to Shoreham Port on the evening of Thursday 29th of September. This will be an opportunity for existing and prospective members, and any local companies who are interested in advancing their own sustainability journeys, to have the opportunity to take [...]
