CONSULTING ENGINEERING GEOLOGIST
ABOUT US
TerraBear is a South Australian owned and operated company that has been undertaking Engineering Geology Consulting and Geotechnical Investigations for a wide range of commercial, industrial, civil and developmental projects in South Australia
since 1997.
TerraBear is completely independent of any consulting or contracting organisation which benefits the customer with honest and impartial advice.
Principal Engineering Geologist and Managing Director is Doug Bear B.App.Sci. (Geol).
We work with, and have access to, NATA accredited laboratories and field equipment, including drill rigs, field density nuclear meters and similar. As such, we are fully flexible in our approach to any Geological Engineering or Geotechnical investigation work and can provide these services at very competitive rates.
Our work is undertaken in accordance with the relevant standards some of which are detailed below:
A.S - 1726 Site Investigation Code
A.S - 1289 Methods of Testing Soils for Engineering Purposes
A.S - 3798 Guidelines on Earthworks for Commercial & Residential Developments
A.S - 2870 Residential Slabs and Footings
A.S - 2159 Piling Code
DPTI Test Methods
EXPERTISE
Consulting Engineering Geologist
Geological Mapping
Geotechnical Investigation and Drill Core Logging for Engineering Purposes
Construction Material Search and Assessment
Civil Construction Supervision, Earthworks, Excavatability, Concrete
Level 1 Supervision in accordance with AS3798
Materials Compliance/Suitability
Thermal Conductivity/Resistivity Testing of Soils
Supervision of Geotechnical Drilling
Foundation Excavation Inspections and Supervision
Ground Engineering
Quality Assurance and Quality Control for capital Earthworks projects
Site Classification for commercial and residential developments
Slope stability assessments and analysis
Ground bearing Capacity assessments for large crane lifts
Materials Testing Laboratories
We have access to a number of soil testing laboratories in Sa and interstate who are accredited to NATA’s ISO17025 for a full range of Compaction, Classification Testing of soils and aggregates in accordance with both AS 1289 and Transport of South Australia Test Methods.
Field Investigation
We have access to geotechnical drill rigs that have capabilities to perform Diamond Core Drilling, Wash Boring and Continuous Flight Auguring.
Field test facilities include Standard Penetration, Composite Tube Sampling, In-situ Vane Shear Strength, Dynamic Cone Penetrometer and In-situ Density Determination using Nuclear Density/Moisture Gauge and Soil Electrical Resistivity Testing.
TYPICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Road Infrastructure and Airstrips
- Innamincka Airstrip
- Beverly Airstrip
- Coober Pedy Airstrip Upgrade
- Northern Expressway
- Sturt Highway (Riverland, Turo, etc)
- Riddoch Highway (Naracoorte)
- Southern Expressway Stage
- Burra - Morgan Road
- Gomersal Road
- Truro Bypass
- Kadina - Wallaroo Road
- Yankallila
- Myponga
- Victor Harbour
- Mt. Compass
Industrial structures
- Victorian Desalination Plant:
- High Voltage Transmission Line, Tynong North to Wonthaggi for Hydro Tasmania
- Communication towers:
- Geotechnical Investigations for Guyed Mast, Lattice Towers and Monopoles for Telstra, Optus and NBN throughout Australia
Windfarms
- Cathedral rocks
- Wattlepoint
- Waterloo
- Musselroe windfarm and associated transmission lines for HTC in Gladstone, Tasmania
Compaction Control
- Roseworthy Grain Silo
- Virginia Pipeline
- Baiada Poultry
- Mckinlay Ridge Subdivision
- Barcoo Outlet
- Bolivar Odour Control Outlet
Experience on many road projects in both QA testing and design, earthworks testing and control by all normal methods including Nuclear Density Meter.
All types of Geotechnical Investigations, drilling and quality assurance testing for the above projects.
Winery infrastructures
- Wolf Blass
- Illapara
- Beringer Blass
- Orlando
- Southcorp
- Rivers Wines
- Amcor Bottling Plant
All types of Geotechnical Investigations and quality assurance testing for the above projects on a variety of infrastructure, including tank farms industrial pavements and roads, storage and effluent dams, crushing plants, warehouses etc.
EXPERIENCE
Extensive Experience in:
- Geological Mapping
- Geotechnical Investigation
- Geotechnical Logging and Supervision of Geotechnical Drilling
- Assessment of Soil and Rock materials for Engineering Purposes
- Construction Material Search and Assessment
- Civil Construction Supervision and Quality Control
- Foundation Excavation Inspections
- Level 1 Supervision of Earthworks Fills in accordance with AS3798
- Site Classifications AS2870
- Ground Engineering
Extensive Experience with all types of Civil Projects including:
- Mine Infrastructure
- Haul Roads
- Highways, Arterial Roads, Open surface roads
- Dams, Irrigation, Storage
- Foundations
- Wind Farms
- Electrical Transmission Line Towers and Poles
- Communication towers
- Bridges
- Earthworks and Fills