Great Hollands Pavilion – Geo-EnvironmentalBracknell

Ridge provided Bracknell Town Council with a multidiscipline design team for the comprehensive redevelopment of Great Hollands Pavilion in Wokingham.

The Geo-Environmental brief was to undertake a site investigation and assessment to provide geotechnical information for foundation and ground floor construction, and to identify ground contamination issues that may affect the proposed development.

Geo-Environmental works comprised

4 No. 4.00m deep Windowless sampled borehole
4 No. 4.00-6.00m deep Dynamic probe holes
Installation of three monitoring wells
Geotechnical laboratory testing
Chemical laboratory testing

4 x 4.00m

Deep Windowless sampled borehole
4 x 4.00-6.00m

Deep Dynamic probe holes

Conditions encountered during the ground investigation were consistent with those identified in the published literature and comprised both Windlesham Formation and Bagshot Formation bedrocks. Soils of the Windlesham Formation were found only within the windowless sampler boreholes WS1 and WS2.

A Ground Condition Assessment Report was prepared which included recommendations regarding:

Foundations
Floor Slab design
Infiltration drainage
Contamination concentrations
Waste Classification
Earthworks
Buried concrete

Investigation and assessment to provide geotechnical information for foundation and ground floor construction