Geotechnical Instrumentation & Monitoring

GZA provides integrated geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring solutions that deliver actionable data for critical infrastructure, geotechnical systems, structures, and environmental assets. Combining advanced technology with technical and proven geotechnical expertise, we help clients manage risk, evaluate project performance, and make informed decisions.

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From program management, planning, and design, through installation, monitoring, and evaluation, GZA provides instrumentation and testing systems to owners, engineers, and contractors on projects above and below ground. Just as ground behavior varies from site to site, so do the goals of our clients.

GZA’s specialized team has completed thousands of instrumentation programs and have established ourselves as one of the finest geotechnical field measurement organizations in the country. Our extensive field capabilities are supplemented by our predictive modeling, data management, theoretical analysis, design and report preparation strengths.

Our knowledge of the technology and business risks to be managed within the highest management levels of GZA, our technical depth not only on the technology of instrumentation but also on geotechnical and structural components of the work, and our understanding of the client’s project-specific needs and risk tolerance makes us uniquely suited to the challenges contractors face.

GZA delivers integrated monitoring solutions for critical infrastructure, natural hazards, asset management, and construction projects nationwide. Our multidisciplinary team provides program planning, instrumentation design, installation oversight, automated monitoring, data management, validation, reporting, and technical interpretation.

Our geotechnical monitoring capabilities include groundwater, deformation, settlement, vibration, and structural monitoring using vibrating wire piezometers, borehole extensometers, automated total stations, deformation monitoring points, crack gauges, and other advanced instrumentation.

Our monitoring programs are developed and supported by geotechnical, structural, and environmental professionals who understand how to translate field measurements into meaningful project insight. By transforming field measurements into actionable data, this assists the project teams improve safety, manage risk, protect adjacent infrastructure, and make informed decisions throughout construction.

Expertise

  • Automated Data Acquisition Systems
  • Automated Total Stations (Survey)
  • Deformation Monitoring
  • Vibration Monitoring
  • Inclinometers, Extensometers, Piezometers, Strain Gages, GPS, Liquid Level System, et cetera…
  • Soil and Rock Pressure
  • Groundwater pressure
  • Settlement and Crack Monitoring
  • Real-time Web-based Data Presentation
  • Reality Capture Integration (Drone LiDAR, Photogrammetry, 360° Imaging, Satellite InSAR)

Our work speaks for itself

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Groundwater Control

Dewatering systems are often an essential component of a project's design, especially in congested urban areas which could have a significant impact on the soil condition at adjacent properties.

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Brad Roberts has been with GZA for over 30 years and is a Sr. Principal. He presently manages offices and…

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