The use of probe drilling for site safety

Chris Purvis tells GDI about how Aarsleff managed the risk of shallow mine workings for the M6 Smart Motorway upgrade by employing probe drilling technique.

Night-time working was one of the many obstacles that Chris Purvis had to deal with as contracts engineer on a site investigation job on a UK motorway project

30 November 2020
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Highway schemes are well known to be underpinned by technical and operational site constraints and my experience on the M6 Smart Motorway Improvements project proved to be no exception.

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