Support of Excavation

Support of Excavation (SOE) Systems are temporary earth retaining systems intended to control the ground to facilitate a safe and efficient space for construction. In some instances the SOE System can double as permanent structural support.

GS&S' capabilities and experience includes design of a wide variety of Support of Excavation (SOE) Systems including:

• Sheet Pile walls
• Cofferdams
• Soldier Pile and Lagging walls
• Diaphragm Slurry walls
• Secant Pile walls
• Cement-Bentonite Soldier Pile walls
• Soil Nails
• Tie-Back or Anchored Walls
• Geosynthetically Reinforced Earth System (GRES) walls
• Tremie Slabs (gravity, structural or anchored)
• Self-Sinking Cassions