Insightful, Informative, Controversial, GeoSolv’s Sound Foundations Newsletter is designed for those in the Engineering, Construction, and related industries. We hope that you will find it to be a valuable resource for industry information, news, trends, and events.
Ok, so let me preface that I am not a scientist, a meteorologist or a doomsday prepper. I’m not a climate change denier, and I’m also not a (what’s the opposite of a climate change [...]
Transit Alliance is a civic advocacy organization in Toronto that connects decision-makers with the people in industries implementing those policies and strategies, whether they be in [...]
Society as a whole is continuously demanding new, better, and more advanced methods to complete tasks in faster, easier, more convenient, and of course, cheaper ways. The environmental industry [...]
The University of Waterloo and Department of Athletics and Recreation proudly unveiled the new Columbia Icefield Field House (CIF Field House) in September of 2019. This $1.5 million project [...]
Located adjacent to the iconic, and first-ever Tim Horton’s store in Hamilton’s east end, construction continues for YWCA’s new 6-storey affordable housing project on Ottawa Street North. [...]
There is a significant movement afoot to try to ensure there is affordable housing for people who cannot afford home ownership. With burgeoning housing and condo prices throughout the GTHA, and [...]
As we move into 2020, we look back on a few of our first projects, projects that put us on the map for ground improvement throughout Ontario. – Mark Tigchelaar Humber College Retaining [...]
The Importance of the Pre-Construction Phase The pre-construction process should be simple, so why does it always seem to get so complicated? A lot of different factors often end up impacting the [...]
In the last newsletter, we covered the relationship between a project’s risk and the cost of an investigation. In this third and final instalment, we will discuss the right way to plan an [...]
Working Geo People I’m a huge Rush fan, and I have been dying to quote Rush in an article – here is my chance! “It seems to me, I could live my life a lot better than I think I am… I guess that’s [...]