Services

Geotechnical Monitoring and Instrumentation
Our professional staff has over 30 years of geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring experience.  We service complex construction projects with sophisticated monitoring systems and techniques.  Projects include the use of vibration monitors, inclinometers, extensometers, tilt meters, piezometers, settlement monitors, crack meters, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, sound level monitors, data loggers, load tests, bearing capacity tests, pile tests and the attendant software applications and engineering analyses.  We have extensive experience with set up of systems for data collection, remote monitoring, presentation and reporting of monitoring results.   


Expert Services
R McCarthy Consulting, Inc. conducts detailed forensic investigations and provides expert witness and legal support services for geotechnical issues including ground vibrations, soil movement, structure damage, groundwater and slope stability.

Geotechnical Services for Construction
Geotechnical investigations for the design and development of commercial, industrial, residential, public works and infrastructure land development projects anchor our capabilities at R McCarthy Consulting.  Project experience includes:

Hotels, high rise office buildings, parking structures, podium structures, tilt-up warehouse/office facilities, high end apartments, residential homes, defense installations, airfields, ports, support facilities, highways, light rail, railroads, bridges, pipeline alignments, regional water treatment plants, earth retaining structures, segmental retaining walls, geogrid reinforced slopes, soldier pile shoring, sheet pile shoring, concrete piers and caissons, geo-jet piers, secant walls, harbor bulkhead walls, tie-backs.  We also conduct studies for stream channels, groundwater, slope stability, landslides, soil settlement, liquefaction, compaction grouting, underpinning, coastal bluffs, earthquakes and vibration effects.

---