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ICE / Geobear Webinar: Embracing Innovation in Track Maintenance

Jun 28, 2021

ICE / Geobear Webinar: Embracing Innovation in Track Maintenance

Geobear were delighted to be part of a recent ICE webinar that looked at innovation in track maintenance.

Technical Report – Lifecycle Extension of Concrete Roads Using Geopolymer

Apr 28, 2021

Technical Report – Lifecycle Extension of Concrete Roads Using Geopolymer

Lifecycle extension of concrete roads using geopolymer Geobear recently produced a technical report concerned with geopolymer stabilisation for the ...

A41 Ground Improvement Works in Progress

Jan 26, 2021

A41 Ground Improvement Works in Progress

Geobear has started a two-week programme of work to improve the ground beneath a section of the A41 in Aylesbury. Transport for Buckinghamshire ...

What is a Soil Investigation?

Jun 18, 2020

What is a Soil Investigation?

Information obtained about ground conditions will influence our engineering design in terms of developing an appropriate design and to remediate the ...

Managing a Highways Asset – the Process Explained

Jun 16, 2020

Managing a Highways Asset – the Process Explained

From the traveller routes in the Iron Age to the Roman Empire’s Watling Road, Britain like the rest of the world has relied heavily on its road ...

Geobear Secures Shugborough Tunnel Contract

May 19, 2020

Geobear Secures Shugborough Tunnel Contract

Geobear has won a contract to deliver the Shugborough Tunnel structural void fill scheme for Story Contracting. The Geobear work commenced on May 9.

Subsidence costs the social housing sector £30m per year

Jan 27, 2020

Subsidence costs the social housing sector £30m per year

The cost of subsidence With the changing climate, the past two years have seen an upsurge in subsidence affecting housing in the UK and this trend ...

Prof. Colin M Eddie Sees the Potential for Geobear to Support the Construction of Major Infrastructure Projects

Sep 18, 2019

Prof. Colin M Eddie Sees the Potential for Geobear to Support the Construction of Major Infrastructure Projects

I first started working with Geobear in 2016 after the CEO (Otso Lahtinen) contacted me to explore possible collaboration. Although I was not ...

Webinar: How can smart infrastructure maintenance save £500m per annum for the UK?

Jul 17, 2019

Webinar: How can smart infrastructure maintenance save £500m per annum for the UK?

Register now for a lunchtime webinar hosted by Geobear: – August 2, 12:00 noon.

Lunchtime Webinar: Road stabilisation – 12th July

Jun 05, 2019

Lunchtime Webinar: Road stabilisation – 12th July

Changes in soil dynamics and the impact of increased axle loads has gradually degraded our road surfaces. Consequently, both flexible surfaces and ...

Jan 16, 2019

Geobear featured on BBC News

A critical ground improvement and void filling project on the M11 was featured on the BBC News last October. Geobear were the ground engineering ...

Innovation in Infrastructure

Jan 03, 2019

Innovation in Infrastructure

In December Geobear CEO, Otso Lahtinen, joined the New Civil Engineer’s Innovation in Infrastructure Forum in central London.

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