ABCG

Geotechnical Department

● Architectural and Interior Design	● Quality Control/Quality Assurance Department
● Environmental Department	● Industrial, Electro-mechanical and Telecommunication
● Structural Department	● Financial Consultancy and valuation Department

ABCG is committed to provide the Engineering market in Egypt with quality services and advanced up-to-date technologies. Led by three Ph.Ds, ABCG team is supplemented by quality experienced senior engineers and qualified laboratory technicians. An overview of ABCG geotechnical activities are listed below:

Soil classification and site characterizations,
Design of side support systems,
Dewatering systems,
Design of roads and railway embankments and surfaces,
Ground water infiltration and seepage processes,
Soil improvements,
Soil stabilization,
Soil reinforcement,
Design and use of geosynthetics for different applications,
Hydrology and Hydrogeology,
Soil Grouting,
Slope Stability,
instrumentation,
Tunneling.

In house Capabilities:

Soil Laboratory equipment

A comprehensive soil testing laboratory including state of the art soil classifications and soil properties evaluation equipment. The department owns and operates three laboratories in Egypt. The laboratories are available at Cairo, 6-October City, and Sharm El-Sheikh City. The laboratories incorporate the following equipment:

(A) Soil Classification

Grain size distribution
Water content
Plastic Limit
Liquid Limit
Shrinkage Limit
Specific Gravity
Tore vane test
Hydrometer

(B) Shear Strength and deformation parameters

Unconfined Compression tests on Cohesive samples
Unconfined Compression tests on Intact Rock Samples,
Consolidation of Cohesive Clayey samples,
Pocket penetrometer.
Laboratory Vane test.

(C) Chemical Analysis for soil and water samples

Chemical analysis for soil samples for geotechnical studies
Chemical analysis for water samples for geotechnical and agricultural needs.

Field equipment:
(A) Drilling machines:

ABCG owns and operates field drilling machines for borehole drilling. Four machines are owned by ABCG to perform different tasks ranging from drilling in soft clay to drilling in concrete. Two of the borehole drilling rigs are state-of-the-art latest technology of drilling at angles and to depths reaching 100 m with a diameter reaching 40 cm in different soils.

(B) Testing equipment:

ABCG operates low strain sonic machine for testing of deep piles.
ABCG also operates cross hole logging sonic tests for diaphragm walls and piles.

Engineering Software:

ABCG is the biggest owner, user and developer of engineering software in the field of Geotechnical Engineering in Egypt. The geotechnical engineering department uses in-house custom developed software for analysis of slope stability, settlement assessment and design of dewatering systems. In addition, ABCG owns and operates latest developed and state-of- the-art engineering software and the staff is highly trained on these computer software such as:

PLAXIS	Finite Element model for soil, rock and geotechnical analysis including consolidation,groundwater, deformation analysis, tunneling and prestressing of anchors.
FLAC	Fast Lagrangian computer program for geotechnical analysis
TENAX	Limit Analysis Software for Soil Reinforcement Design.
GEOPRO	Limit Analysis code for geotechnical analysis.
BOSS GMS	Ground water modeling system.
BOSS SMS	Surface water modeling.
SAP90P	General purpose finite element program for the static and dynamic analysis of skeletal and continuum structures under static and dynamic loads.
ANSYS	General purpose finite element program for the static and dynamic analysis of all types of structures incorporating material and geometric nonlinearity, fluid and soil structure interaction, and elastic and inelastic buckling.
AUTOCAD	Software to generate all structural and Geotechnical drawings.

Computer Facilities:

Fifteen personal computers.
Full networking system.
Four laser printers.
Two colored inkjet printers.
Colored flat bed scanner.
Colored A0 size inkjet plotter.

ABCG has state-of-the-art equipment and software:

● ABCG is the only Company in Egypt that owns and operates the full range of Non Destructive testing for piles including Continuous Soil Logging and Pile Integrity Testing.

● Tests were done in Egypt and the middle east for most large projects involving deep foundation.

● Detailed and well though of analysis is performed based on results from both tests on the piles.

Drilling Rigs and site investigation

● ABCG is one of the few companies in Egypt that maintains its own drilling rigs and sampling.

● Drilling Rigs operate throughout Egypt and Sudan. Samplers are imported from the most advanced companies in the world and some samplers are reproduced in Egypt.

● Samples are well maintained until their final laboratory destination.