Our Services
As a reputable Geotechnical & Environmental Drilling Contractor, Soil Mechanics ensures projects are delivered safely and on time. We provide drilling solutions for a wide range of industries from mining infrastructure to marine projects. Using versatile drill rigs and experienced drillers. We are continuously developing and expanding our testing capabilities to meet your needs.
Sectors We Service
Mining &
Infrastructure
Soil Mechanics has completed numerous projects in the mining and infrastructure sectors, providing geotechnical drilling services to major clients for mine site plant and facilities, solar turbines, solar arrays, tailing storage facilities, rail loops and alignments, pipelines, power corridors, and substations.
Construction
From building bridges to raising rail, geotechnical drilling and sampling are often major parts of early works in any civil project. Working alongside engineering consultants, Soil Mechanics delivers safe, cost-effective drilling solutions – big or small. Our highly trained and experienced drillers produce only the best core recovery and sampling techniques across all projects – whether they’re dealing with silts, clays, sands, rock, or riverbeds.
Environmental
Working with environmental consultants, Soil Mechanics offers various sampling solutions and well installations for hydrogeological and contaminated assessments across mining, land development, and infrastructure projects.
Marine
Soil Mechanics doesn’t just work on land. We also provide geotechnical drilling solutions for new bridge alignments, jetties, wharves, marina’s, pylons, pipeline routes, and dredging channels. Working closely with our clients, we offer a one-stop shop for marine plant and equipment, including jack-up barges (JUB), spud barges, tugs, crew transfer vessels, and DGPS hole positioning.
Services We Provide
- Geotechnical Drilling – both marine and land-based
- Environmental Drilling
- Exploration Drilling
- Heliportable Drilling
- Earth Rod Installations
- Rock Anchoring
- Extraction Bores
- Remote Drilling
- Instrumentation Installations
- Soil Sampling
- Triple Tube Diamond Coring
- PQ3 Wireline Coring
- HQ3 Wireline Coring
- NQ3 Wireline Coring
- Casing Advancing
- Rotary Air and Hammer
- Direct Push Probing
- Hollow Stem Augers
- Pencil Augers
- In-situ Testing
- Standard Penetration Test (SPT)
- U50, U63, U76 Tube Testing
- Piston Sampling
- Permeability Testing
- Falling Head Tests
- Rising Head Tests
- Packer Testing
- Monitoring Equipment Installations
- Piezometer and Monitoring Well Installations
- Vibrating Wire Piezometer Installations
- Geo4sight Wireless Subsurface Monitoring Systems
- ShapeAccelArray Installations
- Inclinometers Installation
