Managing the risks of unforseen ground conditions

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Copyright of RSK 1 Understanding and managing the risk of unforeseen ground conditions Dr George Tuckwell Director

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Encountering unforeseen ground conditions mid-project can be an expensive problem. Buried obstructions, waste, contamination, mineshafts, solution features, soft ground, landfills, storage tanks, unexploded ordnance, archaeological features and difficult geology may variously lie in wait. Buried services are often early concerns. Managing the health and safety risks means getting the right information at the right time. A well-designed investigation can pick up much more than just services at the same cost. Each project is different. This presentation covers the latest developments in surveying and geophysics with examples of how they can be tailored to understand and reduce the specific risks encountered at any particular stage in a project. A graphical approach to visualising information and risk is used to discuss the value and usefulness of different types of intrusive and geophysical site investigation data, including illustrations of when and when not to use geophysics, and, if it is used, how best to integrate it into a site investigation approach. Detailed case studies illustrate the lessons and objectives. For more information contact George Tuckwell: gtuckwell @ rsk.co.uk

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Understanding and managing the risk of unforeseen ground conditions

Dr George TuckwellDirector

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What do you know about your risks?

“…there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.

There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that we now know we don't know.

But there are also unknown unknowns; there are things we do not know we don't know.”

Donald Rumsfeld

Former US Secretary for Defence

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Managing the risk of unforeseen ground conditions

Thinking fast and slow

Understanding and avoiding bias

Site investigation: Information vs Risk

Case study examples

When and when not to use geophysics

How do I know the survey will work?

Wrap up

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Thinking fast and slow

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How cmoe your bairn is albe to udnertsnad this snetence eevn tghouh olny the frist and lsat lteteres of ecah wrod are crreoct?

Clever brains

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• While we think we observe the world, we are actually already interpreting

• We ‘fill in the blanks’ as soon as possible to minimise cognitive effort

• Judgments are made in “automatic gear”

• It is hard to turn the “lazy system” on and off (paraphrasing Kahneman)

PRACTICE TIME:

Mind minefields: Perception

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What do you see?

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What do you see?

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What do the three exibits have in common? (source: D. Kahneman)

What do you see?

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Muller-Lyer’s exp.

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• Define problem slowly to: get all the facts

formulate alternatives

weigh-up and decide

Decision making – “slow” thinking

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• Fast thinking tends to place action ahead of diagnosis of problem and to reward speed;

• Fast thinking combines causal determination with problem definition

PRACTICE TIME:

Decision making - “fast” thinking

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Example: as printed on the page, is the figure on the right larger than the figure on the left?

What do you see?

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Decisions

Paul owns shares in company A. During the past year he considered switching to stock in company B, but he decided against it. He now learns that he would have been better off by €1000 if he had switched to the stock of company B.

John owned shares in company B. During the past year he switched to stock in company A. He now learns that he would have been better off by €1000 if he had kept his stock in company B.

Who feels greater regret?

(source: Kahneman)

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Decisions

Mr Brown almost never picks up hitchhikers. Yesterday he gave a man a ride and was robbed.

Mr Smith frequently picks up hitchhikers. Yesterday he gave a man a ride and was robbed.

Who of the two will experience greater regret over the episode?

Who will be criticized most severely by others?

(source: Kahneman)

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• People expect to have stronger emotional reactions (regret included) to an outcome that is produced by action than to the same outcome when it is produced by inaction

• Biases decisions towards conventional and risk averse choices

Mind minefields: Idealized view on decision making

If this is true for site investigations – what is the risk that decision makers are averse to?

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Is there difficult ground here?

Are sites like this usually difficult?

Have I demonstrated the ground is fine?

Mind minefields: Questions we ask

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What difficult ground have I found?

Why do I think that this land might be difficult?

How can I demonstrate the ground isn’t difficult?

Mind minefields: Questions we should ask

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Understanding and

avoiding bias

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The trouble with experts

They are wrong more often than they think they are,

and by a greater margin than they would ever expect to be,

for reasons that are predictable…

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Heuristic Bias

People need to make decisions constantly, including when they are asked to make expert judgments

They do this by estimating probabilities

People employ several types of heuristics to assess probabilities

However, these heuristics often lead to significant biases in a consistent fashion

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Understanding biases decreases their effect

Summary: Heuristics and Biases

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Inspection Team Functionality

How to plan and execute a large and difficult site investigation….

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CTBT

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CTBT

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International Monitoring Stations

If a suspicious event is detected it may trigger an on-site inspection…

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OSI Inspection area

•1000 km2

•6 days to assemble a team and deploy

•72 hours to start field activities

•25 days to justify continuation

•130 days maximum

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Signatures of underground nuclear explosions

Changes caused by UNE

• radiation anomalies

• apical voids

• rubble chimney

• underground cavities

• fractures

• surface spallation (craters / retarcs)

• changes of soil density

• displacement of water table

Features related to UNE

• drill-hole (metallic) casing

• buried ferrous objects (e.g. drill pipes)

• shallow-buried cables

• construction debris

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Visual observation

Example from IFE08

Concrete platform over Bh130

Detected from the ground

Example from IFE08

Undeclared Bh51A

Detected from the air

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Equipment:• Ground high-resolution gamma

spectrometer for field and lab• Car/Airborne gamma

spectroscopy• Noble gas measurement

equipment

identiFinder gamma

spectrometer

Dose rate, finding and nuclide

identification with NaI detector

Geiger-Mueller tube for high

doses

-survey over

IFE08 IA (cps)

Gamma radiation

monitoring

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Sampling and RN identification

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Seismic Aftershock Monitoring (SAMS)

UNE aftershocks are:

• Shallower than EQ

aftershocks

• Decay more rapidly than

most EQ aftershocks

• UNE explosions may

induce aftershocks in nearby

faults

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Seismic Aftershock Monitoring (SAMS)

Example of aftershocks

magnitude:

• Magnitude -1: dropping

a brick from 1 meter

altitude

• Magnitude -2: explosion

in hard rock of 70 gr

explosive at 3 m depth

Example of event recorded by SAMS

array

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Continuation phase (geophysics) surveys

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Drilling

Last opportunity to detect relevant radionuclides if the test is contained

One chance to drill in one location

Max 130 days to fine a spot 50m across at 500-1500m depth in a 1000 sq km

The inspection team need to be efficient, justified, beyond criticism and correct

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Aspects of an OSIFinite resources

Limited time

Pressure

Scrutiny

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40 people…

• Understanding of phenomenology / knowledge about signatures

• Properly developed search logic to prioritise activities/missions

• Synergy among different technical subdisciplines

The techniques must be applied by a restricted number of inspectors in a limited amount of time:

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Difficult environmental conditions

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Pressurised working conditions

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Bad food (very bad!)

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Requirements

•A system that allows people to work effectively

•Clear purpose and direction

•Search logic that is robust

•Allow technologies to work together

•Synergy of analysis and interpretation

•Communication

•Maximisation of team resources

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What does that mean for an OSI?

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the logic map with IL’s and

develop questions

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the logic map with IL’s and

develop questions

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the areas of interest and

develop questions

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the areas of interest and

develop questions

DOConsider only the information you have

Be clear what is fact and what is interpretation

Use your expertise, intuition, and imagination

Develop questions that do not prescribe the methods used to get the answer

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the areas of interest and

develop questions

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the areas of interest and

develop questions

DONTAssume you know things you do not yet know

Overestimate the accuracy of completeness of the information you have

Work towards an answer, do work towards the answer!

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

DOConsider each question

Use your expertise to develop the most effective missions

Ensure each mission has clear objectives and deliverables

Carefully consider the information that the mission will deliver

• limitations

• accuracy

• risks of failure

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

DONTDevelop missions using technologies you are not expert in

Develop missions that do not address the live questions

Develop missions that have a low liklihood of success

Over-use your ‘favourite’ technology

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

DOObjectively consider the information that each mission will return

Ensure that the information of most value to the purpose of the investigation

Ensure time-critical missions are prioritised

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

DONTConfuse volume of information with value

Prioritise missions unlikely to deliver the promised information

Consider the resources you have available (these are considered later!)

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

DOAllocate resources to the missions in priority order

Combine prioritised missions where possible to make the most efficient use of resources

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

DONTRevisit the priority of missions

Combine missions if it violates the priority order

Listen to the technical expert banging the table insisting that his technology is deployed first.

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

DODeploy personnel with the appropriate expertise to undertake the mission

Stay safe!

Ensure that the mission adheres to the objectives defined

Report results clearly and concisely, and in a way that the ITL (and the world) can understand

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

DONTChange (or forget!) the objectives of the mission

Take unnecessary safety risks

Confuse fact with interpretation in the report

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OSI in five easy steps

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the logic map with IL’s and

develop questions

STEP 1

Consider the information that is available to update the logic map with IL’s and

develop questions

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

STEP 2

Develop missions to answer the questions from step 1

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

STEP 3

Prioritise missions according to the search logic

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

STEP 4

Determine which missions can be implemented with

the resources available

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

STEP 5

Implement the missions and collect the information

generated

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Questions, answers, methods and bias

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Questions, answers, methods and bias

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Questions, answers, methods and bias

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Questions, answers, methods and bias

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Questions, answers, methods and bias

Pose questions that are independent of

the technology used to get the answer

Select an approach based on objective analysis:

•Value of the information•Relevance to the question•Risk of not returning the expected information•Cost•Time scale

Be aware of how bias will affect the outcome,

and takesteps to

minimise it

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OSI mission: linked concepts

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Commercial Site Investigation:linked concepts

Pose questions that are independent of the technology used

to get the answer

Select a technical approach, based on an objective analysis:•Value of the information•Relevance to the question•Risk of not returning the expected information•Cost•Time scale

Be aware of how bias will affect the outcome,

and takesteps to

minimise it

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Site investigation

Information vs Risk

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What do you know about your risks?

“…there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.

There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that we now know we don't know.

But there are also unknown unknowns; there are things we do not know we don't know.”

Donald Rumsfeld

Former US Secretary for Defence

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Management of risk and information

Know your risks

What information do you need and how do you get it?

Relate needs to survey scope and detail

The limitations of the information

Is it complete?

Is it accurate?

Information and risk conceptual maps

What do you know about where?

Is it enough to manage your risks?

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Information – what do you need to know?

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Above ground surveys

Basic appraisal drawing, with levels for flood risk assessment

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Above ground surveys

Detailed topography including tree schedule

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If the area of the target is 1/100 of the area of the site…

What are the chances of finding the target with a random set of hole locations?

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Your chances of finding things…

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If the area of the target is 1/100 of the area of the site…

What are the chances of finding the target with a regular grid of hole locations?

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It may be possible to cover the entire area in a fraction of the time with a geophysical survey

Finding things…

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• Finding something (beneath the ground surface or concealed within a structure)

• Providing reliable information across large areas

• Reducing and/or targeting intrusive investigations

When to use geophysics

Minimises the risk of unforeseen ground conditions

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Risk and information maps

Conceptualisation of risk/need for information

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top

side

3D view

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Tools at our disposal to gather information

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x-section geophysicse.g. resistivity, seismic

boreholes

surface geophysicse.g. EM conductivity,

magnetics, GPR

trial pits

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Following a detailed intrusive SI

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Following a detailed intrusive SI – where do you have information?

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Following a detailed intrusive SI – where does risk remain?

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Following a detailed intrusive SI – where does risk remain?

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How likely is it to have picked up these buried obstructions?

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Using geophysics as a site investigation tool

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top 3D view

side

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Using geophysics as a site investigation tool

Find out something about everything in the near-surface

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Surface geophysics indicates some buried structures

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Risk and information maps (cont.)

Using geophysics as a site investigation tool

Follow up with targeted trial pits, boreholes and geophysics

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Case studies and examples

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Buried services – what are your risks

HSG47

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Buried services – detail and scope of survey

The Survey Association (TSA) level 1 desk study

Reviews of statutory service records and other site-specific data

Borehole location clearances

Using ground penetrating radar (GPR), radiodetection, cover lifting and tracing

TSA level 4 utility survey

Full site radiodetection and cover lifting with unrecorded GPR findings marked out on ground

TSA level 5 utility survey

As above but with additional detail/accuracy in pre-agreed areas covered with recorded GPR grids and post-processing

TSA* level 6 full GPR utility survey

Radiodetection and cover lifting, with recorded GPR grids across the entire accessible site

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Buried services – what are your risks?

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Location (c.1900)

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Location (Today)

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Project Details & Scope

Further information required to improve the understanding of the buried features at the site to aid redevelopment works

Geophysical Surveying to establish -

Location, extent and depth of features indicative of potential vaults

Location of Buried Services

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Equipment Used - Services

Radiodetection Survey RD8000 pipe and cable locator

Cover lifting and inspection

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey Medium frequency antenna Undertaken on dense grid of orthogonal transects across the

site to build up complete 100% 3-D map of the area Limited by ground conditions (clay, rebar, made ground)

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Results - Buried ServicesSite Layout

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Results - Buried ServicesRadiodetection

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Results - Buried Services+ drainage

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Results - Buried Services+ GPR linear features

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Equipment Used - Obstructions

Ground Penetrating Radar

High frequency – slab construction

Medium frequency – services, shallow obstructions, voids

Low frequency – deeper obstructions, foundations, possible vaults

~2.5m

0.7m

Up to 5mDepth

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Example Data - Slab Thickness

Ground Penetrating Radar 1.5Ghz antenna to scan to 600mm depth

Consistent across majority of survey area

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Example Data - Foundations

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Example Data - Vaulted Areas

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Example Data - Vaulted Areas

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Example Data – Grassed Area

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Example Data – Cenotaph Detail

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Example Data – Cenotaph Pipe?

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Final Drawing

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Final DrawingFoundations

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Results - Buried ServicesVaulted basements

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Results - Buried ServicesIntegrated results

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TSA* level 1 desk study

Borehole location clearances

TSA* level 4 utility survey

TSA* level 5 utility survey

TSA* level 6 full gpr utility survey

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How to match a survey scope to your risk

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Limitations to the information

Is the information you now have

limited?

complete?

accurate?

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Survey quality – skills and training

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Survey quality – skills and training (cont.)

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Survey quality – skills and training (cont.)

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Geophysics as an SI tool

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Geophysics as an SI tool (cont.)

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Electromagnetic ground conductivity data

Geophysics as an SI tool (cont.)

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Geophysics as an SI tool (cont.)

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Project Example

Brownfield Site

Carrington Power CCGT

860MW gas fired combined cycle power plant on location

of former Carrington Power Station.

3km pipeline corridor from adjacent National Grid Site to CCGT.

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Case Study - Location

NG Site

Proposed power station

Pipeline route

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Case Study - Project Details

Geophysical Surveying to establish constraints along pipeline route -

Buried Services

Underground obstructions

Geophysics to compliment boreholes

Power cables (lots!) Gas pipe tracing Radar EM mapping

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic Statutory

service records

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic Statutory

service records Drainage

tracing

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic Statutory

service records Drainage

tracing Power & radio

electrolocation

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic Statutory

service records Drainage

tracing Power & radio

electrolocation Radar data

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic Statutory

service records Drainage

tracing Power & radio

electrolocation Radar data EM data

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Case Study - Final Interpreted Results Plan

CAD Plan Pipeline Route Topographic Statutory

service records Drainage

tracing Power & radio

electrolocation Radar data EM data Combined

Drawing

Multiple techniques

= More information

= Less risk

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Case Study - Intrusive Investigation

Pipes found at location and depth shown by geophysics; subsequently exposed; found to be cut at end; proven to be disused

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Case Study – Depth to bedrock & Faults

Borehole data

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Case Study – Depth to bedrock & Faults

P-wave refraction seismics

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Electrical resistivity and seismic data with targeted boreholes to develop a detailed ground model

Case Study – Depth to bedrock & Landfill

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Case Study – Depth to bedrock & Landfill

Ground Investigation Specialist of the Year 2012

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Closed landfill

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Electrical survey of landfill

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Electrical survey of landfill (cont.)

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Integrated SI – if your site looks like this…

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… would this information help?

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When, and when not

to use geophysics

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Do I need help finding (or avoiding) my target(s)?

Do the targets represent a contrast in physical properties that may be detected?

Can one or more geophysical techniques help?Are my targets big enough?Are my targets shallow enough?Are the site conditions suitable for a successful survey?

When to use geophysics

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What are thestatistical chances

of finding it withpits/holes?

Standard intrusive SI

Standard intrusive SI

no

yes

If it is theredo we know with

confidence where itshould be?

no

yes

Standard intrusive SI

acceptable not acceptable

Doesthe brief include

finding or provingthe absence of

something?

start

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Can one or moregeophysical techniques help?

Are my targets big enough? Are my targets shallow enough?

Are the site conditions suitable fora successful survey?

Intrusive investigation

Do the targetsrepresent contrasts in

physical properties thatare detectable?

no

yes

Intrusive SIno

Integrated SI including

geophysical survey

yes

What are thestatistical chances

of finding it withpits/holes?

acceptable

not acceptable

Standard intrusive SI

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How do I know if the

survey will work?

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How do I know the survey will work?

Who is doing the geophysical survey?

Has the survey been designed by an expert to fit your information needs?

What will the survey deliver?

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Who is doing the survey?

Qualifications and experience

chartership

qualifications/demonstrable CPD

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Is the survey designed for YOU?

Ask some basic questions about how the survey design proposed will deliver information that addresses your risks

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What should the survey produce?

Ask consultants/contractors to

‘show their working’

example data annotated with interpretations

Interpretative report to support drawings

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How could a third party help?

Supervision

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Peer review

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Context and interpretation

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Contact details

Hemel office

George Tuckwell, [email protected], 01442 416656

Tim Grossey, [email protected], 01442 416654

Helsby office

Stephen Owen, [email protected], 01928 728457

Paul Birtles, [email protected], 01928 728148

More information

www.environmental-geophysics.co.uk geophysical information and case studies

www.safe-ground.co.uk utility mapping and surveying

www.rsk.co.uk company website

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