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11 July 2018

Dressing Down With Geotechnical Drilling

By Patricia White


Humanity rules the world. There is little doubt about that. The humanity is the undisputed master of the planet is simply an objective fact. The thing about the modern world is that it was built. It was erected literally from the ground up. IT was assembled, piece by piece, by teams of people working together in tandem, sometimes losing their lives to do. All to make the world a little bit more convenient for everyone else. Now, the thing about construction is that there are steps to it. There are some things that need to be done before ground can be broken. For one thing, the ground has to be inspected, and this is usually done by geotechnical drilling Nova Scotia.

Geotechnical is a variant of drilling. It is generally supposed to happen before construction begin, a review of the earth, in essence. In that sense, it breaks ground before the ground is to be broken.

This is done for numerous reasons. The primary one is to make sure that the site in question is appropriate for the project. If it is not, then there are some risks to safety, and a chance the project may not be completed to the highest standards possible.

Now, there is going to be quite a bit of equipment involved. First and foremost, a truck is going to be needed, to transport all that equipment. Then there is the probe itself, the main tool to be used. The probe is kind of like a guillotine, except instead of slicing heads off of monarchs, it just bores straight into the ground to record data.

The thing is, that a company that offers the service is generally going to need to charge their clients a fee for that service. First, the equipment that they use is going to be quite expensive, as industrial equipment usually is. Then there are the engineers, who will expect their paychecks to not bounce. Of course, there are also just general operating costs, like utility bills and possibly renting office space.

If there is risk, then something is not being done right. When the probe is properly maintained and responsibly used, then it should function as intended. As such, if someone dies or is hurt, then there was a misstep somewhere in the planning process.

The way it is done is fairly simple. First, they drive to the site. Then they take the probe off of the truck. Then they set the thing up. Then the probe launches the drill downwards into the earth and records all the relevant data.

This is done because people want to be safe. Also because a construction company does not want the black mark of a collapse on their record. That can kill business faster than executive shake up.

The thing about the world is how great it is. But it was not always that way. No, it took sweat, tears, and occasionally blood to make modernity possible.




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