Geonorth Engineering

Physical and chemical soil tests including grain size distribution, standard and modified Proctor, specific gravity, durability, strength and compressibility. Concrete mix designs and slump, entrained air content and compressive strength tests on ready-made concrete, concrete coring.

Our Laboratory is certified by CCIL to CSA and ASTM testing standards: Concrete (Category 0), Aggregate Quality Control (Type C), Aggregate Physical Property (Type D), Asphalt Mix Design (Type A) and Asphalt Mix Compliance (Type B).

To provide our clients with a technically advanced site investigation tool and to enhance our analytical capabilities we developed a purpose built truck for carrying out cone penetration testing. It has a maximum push capacity of 300 kN and is capable of advancing the CPT probe to 70 m depth.

We have 5 and 20 tonne capacity probes manufactured by Vertek CPT equipped to measure tip and sleeve resistance, soil pore-water pressure and shear wave velocity.This equipment has allowed us to carry out detailed stratigraphic profiling and to collect accurate, repeatable data on soil strength, compressibility and permeability for a multitude of analyses.

Development of forestry and mining resources across northern B.C. often requires construction of access roads and plant facilities across areas of difficult and unstable terrain.

We have worked with the B.C. Ministry of Forests, all of the major forest companies and mining companies operating in the north half of the province to carry out overview and detailed terrain stability assessments of proposed roads, and have carried out investigations and provided recommendations to stabilize landslides and erosion features.

From our base in Prince George, we have provided recommendations and review for highway realignments, bridges, rock and soil landslides, emergency closures and pavement upgrades across northern and parts of southern B.C. Our work includes a realignment of Highway 97 through the Pine Pass that included four bridges, preloading over soft valley deposits adjacent to oil and gas pipelines and BC Hydro transmission towers, large cuts in soil and rock, and design of transitions to thick, legacy pavement, and a realignment of Highway 16 west of Smithers that included a 40 m high rock cut with rock fall mitigation measures, and a large retaining wall on slopes overlooking Skeena River.

We have provided geotechnical engineering and materials testing services for Northern Health and Interior Health, for new developments and additions to existing facilities. These include new hospitals in Fort St. John and 100 Mile House, major additions to the University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George and for the new B.C. Cancer Centre for the North in Prince George.