Valentina, GB Card & Partners’ Principal Geo-Environmental Engineer, has been working hard recently at our Faversham Lakes site in Kent.

As part of our geotechnical strategy for the site, an area historically used for the deposition of silt washings from quarry activities requires surcharging to accelerate the consolidation process. GB Card & Partners have therefore calculated the required surcharge and designed a system of band drains to meet the client’s requirements. Once complete, the area will be suitable for the adoption of strip or raft foundations, offering value and sustainability compared to a piled solution. The ground improvement has also reduced the requirements relating to road pavement design and minimised potential differential settlements between the dwellings and surrounding infrastructure.

GB Card & Partners have also designed the working platform to allow the installation of the band drains, processing site data, including shear vane testing on subbase materials, to provide real-time updates on the required thickness of the platform as the works progress.

Valentina has an extensive knowledge of the site at Faversham Lakes, and has built a solid relationship with the client, having been involved in the project for well over a year.

With summer speeding by, GB Card & Partners are welcoming another new addition to the company, Graduate Engineer Jola Brown.

Jola has recently graduated from Cardiff University with a First-Class MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering degree and has moved to Devon to join our ever-expanding Exeter office.

Throughout her degree, Jola completed various placements as a Site Engineer giving her invaluable experience in all aspects of construction and engineering which will continue to develop from strength to strength here at GB Card. Jola also received the prestigious Norman Thomas Design Award for best design work in Civil Engineering whilst at university.

It’s brilliant to have another Graduate join GB Card and look forward to working with Jola.

GB Card & Partners are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Best UK Consultancy (micro) category at the #CandEAwards2021 organised by the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE).

The finalists will be announced on Thursday 16 September at 12pm.

The event celebrates the outstanding people, teams and projects from the world of consultancy, engineering and the built environment. Find out more here: bit.ly/2T0Agsk