Category Archives: Soil Surverys

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SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS

Our staff based in our Milton office celebrated Christmas in their usual style……with plenty of delicious food and washing it down with a beverage or two. We dined at...

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DO YOU WANT DOWELS WITH THAT

We sometimes get asked “Can we just shotcrete the face to stop it scouring? but I don’t want to use soil nails or dowels. This is why we don’t...

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MELBOURNE CUP 2020

While some things change……..most stay the same!! Soil Surveys held our annual Melbourne Cup lunch last Tuesday in both our Milton and Gold Coast offices. We had a flutter...

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CELEBRATING 25 YEARS

This week, Surah, one of our hard working admin staff at Milton, celebrated her 25 years with Soil Surveys with a lunch. This was Surah’s first position out of...

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CLEAN UP IN AISLE TWO

One of our drillers went grocery shopping and decided to do concrete coring and testing while he was there. Not a bad clean up job.

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THE BEAST AT BALLYMORE

No we don’t mean the late great Stan P or the infamous Richard L we are referring to our Explorer 500 which we needed to use to carry out...

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FRIDAY FUN – PUTT PUTT

Times have been tough so the Milton crew got the afternoon off to do some team building at Victoria Park’s Putt Putt course. Dodgy shots were made, beers consumed...

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RUOK?

Every year a special day has been put aside to help us recognise the issues our colleagues may be experiencing and encourage us to talk through issues affecting their...

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THE SITE SLOPES A BIT

Occasionally we have no choice where we drill and sometimes the surface isn’t as rig friendly as it could be. This is when we use our hydraulic legs to...

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EKKA

Usually this time of the year Brisbane residents are bracing for a family activity called the Ekka. Over the years Soil Surveys has been involved in investigations on the...

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Soil Surveys- The Foundation of a Successful Project. Every project needs a solid foundation on which to be built and Soil Surveys have been providing geotechnical services to do just that for over 45 years.