This year alongside the usual collection of industry exhibitors Geotechnica has partnered with the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists to become the exclusive host of its annual conference.
GDI has listed some of the key companies in the drilling industry taking part in the Geotechnica, which will be held over July 6-7, 2022.
The British Drilling Association
Main business sector: Drilling
At the show: You will have the opportunity to talk with the BDA's new general manager, Joel Stevens, about how the BDA can further engage with the drilling and wider geotechnical sector and discuss membership opportunities and the BDA Audit process.
Website: britishdrillingassociation.co.uk
Casagrande UK
Main business sector: Piling and drilling equipment
At the show we will be exhibiting: The latest versions of Casagrande drilling rigs including the new M9XP-2.
Visit us at stand number: D
Website: casagrandeuk.com
Chemtech Environmental
Main business sector: Environmental testing laboratory
At the show we will be exhibiting: Chemtech Environmental is an environmental testing lab that is fast, accurate and reliable.
Here are a few key points you need to know: accredited (UKAS and MCERTS); standard turnaround is five days; we can offer a full two-stage WAC on a three-day turnaround; free collection service - from site or office; free sample containers; proactive, personal and dedicated support squad; and competitive rates with volume discounts for large projects.
With over 20 years' experience, we are a safe pair of hands. Plus our recent investment in more instruments, staff and improved quality assurance procedures ensure that our level of service remains both outstanding and consistent.
Chemtech Environmental is part of Cawood, the UK's largest independent provider of analytical laboratory testing services for the land-based industries.
Visit us at stand number: 53
Website: chemtech-env.co.uk
DWG Infraco Ltd
Main business sector: Ground stabilisation, void filling, diamond drilling
At the show we will be: Introducing our extensive range of ground engineering services, this is our first Geotechnica show, so it is the opportunity for potential clients to understand what services we have to offer.
Our current areas of business are airports, utilities, multimodal, warehousing, metro and civil engineering.
We work with several tier one contractors and are a Constructionline Gold contractor
Visit us at stand number: 46
Website: dwguk.com
DYWIDAG
Main business sector: Geotechnical/ground engineering
At the show we will be exhibiting: Ground anchors, micropiles, soil nails, threadbar systems, rock bolts and smart anchors.
Visit us at stand number: 1 - 2
Website: dywidag.com
Eijkelkamp Fraste UK
Main business sector: Construction
At the show we will be exhibiting: The full range that Eijkelkamp Fraste UK has to offer including soil and water investigation and monitoring equipment, conventional and sonic drilling rigs, CPT rigs and cones.
Visit us at stand number: 21 - 22
Website: efrigs.co.uk
Equipe Group
Main business sector: Geotechnical training, innovations, assessments and events.
At the show we will be exhibiting: The RhinoCorebox - an award-winning, plastic, robust, recyclable core storage and transport, including a new 1.5m variant.
GEO Academy - an online, on-demand geotechnical training courses, including wire rope inspection training
Level 3 Diploma in Land Drilling
Visit us at stand number: 13, 14, 17 & 18
Website: equipegroup.com
European Geophysical Services Ltd
Main business sector: Ground investigation / geophysical surveys
At the show we will be exhibiting: Geophysical logging equipment,
Visit us at stand number: 39 - 40
Website: europeangeophysical.com
Genair UK Ltd
Once again Genair UK will have a selection of mobile air compressors on display at Geotechnica
Main business sector: Air compressor rental
At the show we will be exhibiting: Our range of low- and zero-emission compressors.
Visit us at stand number: 11 & 15
Website: compressor-rental.co.uk
Geotech S.R.L.
Main business sector: Geotechnical and Structural engineering
At the show we will be: Presenting our business services.
Visit us at stand number: 30
Website: geotech.ro
Geoterra
Main business sector: Geoterra are geospatial engineers and consultant chartered land surveyors who specialise in above and below ground geo-referenced surveys.
It works very closely with consultant engineers, contractors and drilling operators in the civil engineering and building sectors to provide a high-quality service to clients and has almost 40 years' experience working on major infrastructure projects.
Geoterra utilises a variety of innovative solutions to obtain accurate survey data upon which engineering decisions can be made and help in reducing the risk of the unknown; what lies beneath. It offers its clients unique solutions for their various requirements throughout the UK.
It also provides expert witness services for construction litigations and are often called upon to give independent advice as consultant engineers and surveyors.
Geoterra carrying out a CALS laser scan survey of an old coal mine void working with Geotron and Soil Engineering
At the show we will be launching: Our new remote UAV and buggy for the laser scanning, photogrammetry and Video surveys service at the show.
Visit us at stand number: 43
Website: geoterra.co.uk
In Situ Site Investigation
Main business sector: In Situ Site Investigation is a specialist geotechnical and geo-environmental site investigation company carrying out all aspects of cone penetration testing (CPT) techniques as well as all methods of pressuremeters. Our expanding range of rigs and equipment enable us to work on any site across the UK and worldwide.
In Situ Site Investigation will a variety of cones as well as a sample of its pressuremeter equipment at Geotechnica
At the show we will be exhibiting: Our CPT equipment including a variety of cones as well as a sample of our pressuremeter equipment (HPD and DPM driven pressuremeter). Our CPT and pressuremeter technical experts will be available to answer any questions. We will also have a stand packed full of sweets and lots of marketing goodies including our infamous ‘Dougie the Ducks' so come and grab one quickly!
Visit us at stand number: 3
Website: insitusi.com
Jean Lutz SA
Main business sector: Instrumentation for deep foundation engineering
At the show we will be exhibiting: Our recording devices and sensors such as the DIALOG MX2.
Visit us at stand number: 55
Website: jeanlutzsa.fr
Lankelma Limited
Main business sector: Ground investigation specialising in CPT
Lankelma operates CPT units on land and in the nearshore environment
At the show we will be exhibiting: Information on the various techniques we offer, including seismic, pressuremeter and MIP testing, as well as details of our fleet of high-tech CPT units for works on land and in the nearshore environment.
Visit us at stand number: 50
Website: lankelma.com
LECA UK
Main business sector: LECA Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate is manufactured and specified for structural engineering, water management and gas emission prevention.
At the show: Our geotechnical team at LECA UK will be attending to discuss and highlight the key geotechnical benefits of LECA Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate within the multi-disciplines of structural engineering. This includes highlighting the key work which is taking place around our sustainability initiatives.
Visit us at stand number: 12
Website: leca.co.uk
LIM SAS
Main business sector: Instrumentation for drilling, real-time drilling and in-situ tests data acquisition.
At the show we will be exhibiting: New PocketLIM-6G drilling parameters recorder, Lim@mail and GEO-LOG 4 web application in the cloud.
Visit us at stand number: 41
Website: lim.eu
Marshall Drilling Ltd
Main business sector: Geotechnical drilling
Visit us at stand number: 58
Website: marshalldrilling.com
Marton Geotechnical Services
Main business sector: We are a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialist quality products for use in ground investigation, water well and geothermal drilling applications. We also supply a full range of tooling for all of these applications including our Geotech S range and are the UK distributor for Tecop rigs and Pagani CPT rigs.
At the show we will be: Showing a Tecop 12.2 lightweight rotary rig, the new 1.5m Rhinos Boxes and we will have literature and information on our full product range.
Visit us at stand number: 36 - 37
Website: mgs.co.uk
National Highways
Main business sector: National Highways, formerly the Highways Agency and later Highways England, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England
Visit us at stand number: A
Website: nationalhighways.co.uk
Robertson Geo Ltd
Main business sector: Borehole Geophysics - Global market leading logging tools and technologies for subsurface data acquisition of hydrological, environmental, mineral, hydrocarbon, and geoscience projects.
Comprehensive ground investigation services, data management and rental solutions.
Proven results driven on-site subsurface data - ISO 9001 management system encompassing tool design, manufacture, calibration, management, and execution of logging operations.
At the show we will be exhibiting: Robertson Geo and Vista Clara have established a new partnership to exclusively market Javelin NMR logging instruments in global territories and to develop sales, services and rentals in the UK and Scandinavia. A dedicated website has been created to present the NMR technology and tools - RGeo-NMR.com
Visit us at stand number: 7 - 8
Website: robertson-Geo.com / RGeo-services.com
Rockbit UK Ltd
Main business sector: Manufacture and supply of drilling tooling and equipment, exclusive UK agent for Massenza drilling rigs.
At the show we will be exhibiting: A collection of bespoke drilling equipment including Wildbore range of Loopmaster, LoopGuide, Ridgid tooling, Rockbits, PCD bits and drag bits along with adaptors, saver subs and all other tooling and equipment.
Visit us at stand number: 4
Website: rockbit.co.uk
SoilCloud
SoilCloud is a web solution dedicated to digital transition in geotechnical engineering
Main business sector: Software editor
At the show we will be exhibiting: Geotechnica is the opportunity to discover our web solution, SoilCloud, dedicated to digital transition in geotechnical engineering. SoilCloud is widely used in France with more than one thousand daily users. SoilCloud is a reference in France for managing geotechnical data and we aim to be a world class reference. We are compatible with AGS format.
Visit us at stand number: 29
Website: soilcloud.fr
Strata Geotechnics
Main business sector: Ground investigation
At the show we will be exhibiting: For over 20 years Strata Geotechnics has provided high-quality ground investigation (GI) and foundation testing services throughout the UK. Focusing on the production of quality data, Strata maintains an enviable track record of being at the forefront of technology and innovation which includes the development of bespoke drilling rigs, digital data, sonic drilling technology and automated static load testing.
Focusing on our restricted access capability we will be exhibiting two of our specialist GI drilling rigs, namely the VETRAK cable percussion rig and our lightweight modular dynamic sampling rig. These rigs are busy on rail and highway schemes and we will be delighted to discuss the variety of projects we have delivered across these and other sectors when you visit our stand.
Visit us at stand number: Stand C
Website: stratageotechnics.com
Stratum Drilling Solutions
Main business sector: Geotechnical and construction
At the show we will be exhibiting: A wide range of market-leading equipment which we supply to many of our clients who operate in the following sectors; piling, geothermal, quarrying, soil nailing, rock anchoring, ground investigation. We will also be there to discuss our equipment manufacturing and we will have a range of this on our stand during the exhibition, and also our servicing capabilities as well as our onsite project Stratum guidance and support to the clients that we work with.
Visit us at stand number: 23 and 33
Website: stratumdrillingsolutions.com
Structural Soils
Structural Soils will be highlighting its geo-logging, packer testing and HPD testing capability during Geotechnica
Main business sector: Ground investigation, in-situ testing, monitoring and soil, rock and materials testing and factual and interpretative reporting.
At the show we will: Have our updated Engineers Quick Reference Guide so be quick and come and pick up a copy. We will also be highlighting our geo-logging, packer testing and HPD testing capability.
Visit us at stand number: 64 - 65
Website: soils.co.uk
Terra Insights
Main business sector: Infrastructure, oil & gas, mining
At the show we will be: Demonstrating our integrated platform of solutions including ShapeArrays, Rock, Motionary and RSTAR Affinity.
Visit us at stand number: 61
Website: terrainsights.com
TerraRoc
Main business sector: Geotechnical drilling tools
TerraRoc will have among other options on display at Geotechnica its DTH hammers and Model D plastic casing system
At the show we will be launching: The range of Model D (plastic casing system) and hand out catalogues and showing models of this in different sizes both for top hammer and down the hole hammer.
We will have our site investigation tool S-Geobor with us, DTH hammers, and bit and out casing advancement system Symmetrix and elemex.
Visit us at stand number: 5 - 6
Website: terrarocdrilling.com
