Southern

Led by Martin Stanley, our Southern Division offers design and build services for projects requiring geotechnical solutions across the South of England and South Wales. This multi-disciplinary team engineer and provide ground engineering schemes that are developed and delivered with our clients’ requirements clearly defined, understood and at the forefront of our mind.

Our clients receive real value from a local team of experts who are on-hand to provide one-to-one support from the early stages of project concept development right the way through to on-site delivery.

Geographic Region – Local Expertise, Global Support

We have an impressive record of project delivery across the region along with an in-depth and unrivalled understanding of the nuances different geographical, geological and operational conditions can bring. From the inner-city working on flagship infrastructure and commercial schemes across London, to marine works in coastal locations and remote working in less-accessible rural locations, our experts have the skillset to ensure your scheme is successfully completed.

We have a wealth of urban environment working experience from numerous projects delivered throughout London, as well as in Cambridge, Bristol, Reading, Brighton, Southampton and Cardiff.

We understand the particular challenges of operating in congested urban environments including the importance of just in time delivery and clear logistical planning, the process of obtaining and complying with planning conditions and consents including the monitoring of environmental impacts with our sister company Sixense. We have experience of assessing the effects of our construction activities on 3rd party assets and have numerous case studies of working next to a variety of structures including tunnels, sewers, utilities and existing buildings.

This regional focus is strengthened by the resources provided by the wider Bachy Soletanche UK and global Soletanche Bachy Groups, bringing unrivalled access to the latest technological, material and equipment innovations and world-wide engineering expertise.

Engineering Excellence

We collaborate with our clients and consulting engineers to develop solutions and overcome challenges. Our experience and geotechnical expertise help create conceptual designs, draft specifications, generate workable solutions and devise logistical and programme strategies.

Our engineers support your team with advice on material specifications, carbon footprint assessments, temporary works coordination, support for additional ground investigation and testing, and where applicable, assessment of existing foundations for re-use. We can also contribute into the wider scheme plans, for example, by providing support and advice on dewatering of excavations.

We hold a rich database of ground investigation data and pile test results that we can draw upon, not only to enhance our understanding of our engineered solutions but also to aid our clients at the early stages of engagement. This approach allows enables our clients to not only advance their schemes in a shorter timeframe, but also to reduce the risk associated with the works.

Bachy Soletanche’s in-house professionals manage all elements of the design process for permanent and temporary works. When needed we can embed our employees into a wider project team to provide a seamless and collaborative approach in order to deliver the most efficient and cost-effective design during the early stages of a project helping to streamline the overall programme by avoiding any duplication or abortive work.

Project Management

Our Southern Division not only offers the full geotechnical package but can scale their work to manage and deliver multi-disciplinary schemes, including those requiring civil engineering and monitoring services. Our project management expertise and strong supply chain means we can manage the entire package of subcontract works for our clients, eliminating the need for them to manage multiple suppliers and contractors. The scalability of our team helps to streamline the process and minimise risk for our clients, whilst giving them reassurance that the full contract is in the safe hands of one team.

Supply Chain

We manage a network of loyal, local suppliers who bring their expertise, innovation and sustainable outlook to our projects. The strong relationships we have with our supply chain partners have been cultivated over decades of working together to understand each other’s capabilities, requirements and way-of-working. This collaborative approach drives efficiency on a project, by reducing time, cost and risk.

On each project, we take on full management of the supply chain, ensuring they continue to meet the high standards and values we set for our partners. Where and when required, we will work with suppliers local to the projects, to ensure that we contribute to social value targets and the local communities within which we work.

Techniques

Bachy Soletanche’s Southern Division designs and delivers a vast range of complimentary geotechnical solutions including all types of bored piling systems including continuous flight auger, cased continuous flight auger, rotary bored with/without temporary casings and/or support fluids, minipiling and bored displacement using our proprietary Screwsol system.

We also have extensive experience in diaphragm walls installed using both grab and Hydrofraise® techniques, slurry cut-off walls and soil mixing using our Colmix®, Trenchmix® and Geomix® processes, alongside other more specialist techniques including various forms of grouting (jet grouting, compaction grouting, permeation grouting and fissure grouting), anchoring and soil nailing.