The potential damage caused by earthquakes and associated hazards is a central consideration in the design of engineered structures around the world.
Even in countries with negligible seismic activity, such as the UK, potential risks to critical infrastructure including nuclear power stations and hydroelectric dams must be identified and managed.
Halcrow’s expertise spans the entire process, from defining earthquake-related hazards – ground shaking, faulting, liquefaction, landslides, seismic settlement and tsunamis – to remediation and hazard-resistant design.
Services include:
- seismic hazard analysis
- ground investigation for seismic design: scoping, specification and interpretation
- seismic design, assessment and remediation
- liquefaction assessment and remediation
- earthquake site response analysis and soil-structure interaction analysis