Soil&Rock department

All About

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Geotechnical Department

· is qualified to carry out all the geotechnical works;

· includes the largest geotechnical laboratory at the State of Israel;

· has the most powerful intellectual and hardware resources to solve state-of-the-art geotechnical and environmental issues.

At the pages of the site, you will gain the impression of our potentials and services we offer. Also, you will see some case studies and projects relating to different fields of our activity. You will also have the opportunity to visualize the computer models of the objects studied and will hopefully find the topics interesting and useful from professional viewpoint if you are the professional in geotechniques, geology, or environment.

Gadi Liskevich

Department Profile: Geotechniques and Geoecology

Geotechnical Department performs:

All the standard tests needed for geotechnical and environmental works, and

Multidiscipline investigations and turnkey solutions of geotechnical and environmental issues

Subjects of our works: All the geotechnical applications and the most of typical environmental applications.

Subjects for geotechnical works:

All the geo-engineering and geotechnical applications – constructions, foundations of and soil beneath

small and large dwellings
industrial buildings
open pits
highways,
sea port constructions,
water storages,
bridges,
tunnels,
etc. etc

Subjects for environmental works:

Geologic media - ground water, soil, and soil air affected by
Industrial sites,
Dwellings,
Construction sites,
Gas stations,
Gas and oil-product storages, etc.
Artificial ecosystems:
Municipal solid waste landfills
Water storages and reservoirs
Highly polluted water basins.
Constructions affected by:
Undeground cavities,
Radon anomalies,
Land slides.

Certified Geotechnical laboratory

Standard: CPT test

Standard: Lanfill drilling and sampling

Soil gas survey

Standard: Geosonic measurement

Standard: Resistivity survey

The standard tests:

The geotechnical tests in-situ
The laboratory geotechnical tests
Determination of driven pile bearing capacity: static and dynamic load tests
Chemical analyses of solid, liquid and gaseous media
Geological survey and geological tracking
Ground geophysical survey
Geochemical and atmogeochemical surveys
Radon measurement and Radon survey

All the above written works are carried out in strong accordance with relevant Israel, USA and EC standards.

Geo-engineering model of construction site

Environmental model of a plant subsurface

Cave system topology

Multi-discipline investigations and turnkey solutions:

Environmental site characterization
Landfill characterization
Landfill fire prediction
Investigations of underground cavities
Civil engineering site characterization
Ground water and gas monitoring
Monitoring of vadose zones
Archeology
Multidiscipline 3-D modeling of the subsurface

Computer model of a solid waste landfill

Sandvich image of a landfill subsurface

The Crew

Gadi Liskevich Director of Department. Affiliation: Israel Society of Civil Engineers and Geotechnicians	Soil and Rock department has the most universal and encyclopedic personnel in Israel for multidiscipline studies of earth. The personnel is capable to state and solve wide range of modern geotechnical and geo-environmental problems. The backbone of the Department includes 5 PhDs and 20 MSCs graduated from universities of the former USSR, Bulgaria, USA, and Israel. Specialties: •Geotechniques, •Civil engineering, •Geology, •Geophysics, •Geochemistry, •Ecology, •Physics, •Mathematics Principal and leading specialists of the Department published more than 240 scientific articles, 29 inventions, and 12 monographs.	VladiFrid, Ph.D. Leading Geophysicist
Dani Kantorovitch, M.S. Deputy Director.		Nikolai Korostyshevski, M.S. Head of Field Geophysics division.
Dmitry Doudkinski, Ph.D. Leading Geologist		Vlad Titov, M.S. Head of Field Geotechniques division
Semion Shulov, Ph.D. Head of Geotechnical Laboratory. Affiliation: American Ceramic Society.		Efim Shafran, M.S. Head of Field Geochemistry division
Alex Roslik, Ph.D Soil and rock mechanics investigations.		Vadim Chepurko, Ph.D. Computer aided diagnostics of the stifness of overall pavement systems

Most Significant Projects

Trance-Israel highway # 6, highways 431, 7 etc.

Gas power station Ramat-Hovav- Siemens

Ashdod and Haifa ports

Ben Gurion airport

Railways

Haifa, Bat Yam, Abudis, Alonim, Puria, Hyria and other landfills

Rock physical properties of Timna deposit

Rock prospecting (e.g. basalt in Cyprus)