With a history of engineering in challenging ground conditions and complex projects, Itasca engineers and scientists have an unparalleled knowledge of numerical modeling and other advanced engineering analysis techniques. Itasca works on a wide variety of projects for owners, government, and other consultants, including:
- Site characterization
- Slope and portal stability and design
- Tunnel infrastructure
- Surface transportation infrastructure
- Ground-structure interaction
- Foundations
- Cavern stability, support, and deformation
- Dam and spillway stability
- Levees and floodwalls
- Marine structures
- Hydroelectric power plants
Civil engineering and geotechnical services offered include:
- Field work to measure material properties
- Material property review
- Monitoring the evolution of the stress and displacement during the excavation of tunnels and underground structure of any type
- Validation of tunnel construction design
- Optimizing building systems in soil or rock in an excavation or along a slope
- Stability analysis and remediation of historical monuments or landmarks
- Back-analysis of sinkhole formation and forward prediction
- Modeling of soil/rock structure interaction in static or dynamic conditions
- Microseismic, acoustic emission, and ultrasonic monitoring services
- Soil- and rock-mechanics design and stability analyses
- Ground settlement and excavation convergence
- Groundwater flow investigation, monitoring, modeling, and management for dewatering and depressurization
- Geochemistry
- Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) processes
- Design review
- Risk analysis
- Back analysis and owner’s review
- Safety and quality control
- Permitting, litigation, and expert witness
- Monitoring and instrumentation for observational method
- Static analysis, including static liquefaction
- Dynamic (seismic, blasting, and vibrations) stability analysis including liquefaction potential analysis
- Creep analysis
- Heat transfer analysis
- Frozen soil remediation
- Enhanced soil remediation, including jet grouting