Geotechnical & Hydrology

Bechtel’s Geotechnical and Hydrology Engineering group is staffed with engineers, scientists, and specialists with extensive experience in a wide variety of technical fields. This group supplies expertise to support our projects worldwide and is also available to provide these services in support of any special needs of our customers.

GEOTECHNICAL

• 2-D and 3-D surface modeling
• 3-D visualization and analyses
• Charting and time trend analyses
• GIS custom tool development
• GIS enterprise database design and implementation
• GIS mapping and cartography
• GIS web map services development
• GIS/CADD data conversion and preparation
• Modeling of geometric networks (transportation, pipelines, and utilities)
• Proximity analyses
• Soils/land use/drainage basin analyses
• Geological mapping and interpretation
• Geological model development
• Field exploration
• Fault investigations
• Drilling (including coring and sampling)
• Remote sensing and terrain evaluation
• Geohazard evaluation and mitigation

HYDROLOGY

• Numerical modeling
• Outfall sizing and design
• Cooling water intakes and outfalls
• 316(b) evaluation and mitigation support
• Shoreline discharge and offshore diffusers
• Steady-state analysis of pipeline systems—circulating water, makeup water system, or raw water system
• Hydraulic transient analyses
• Plume dispersion studies
• Cooling ponds
• Intake model testing support
• Water availability assessment
• Water balances
• Dams/Impoundment breach modeling
• Coastal engineering
• Breakwater hydraulic design
• Coastal shoreline protection
• Storm surge and wave run-up calculations
• Bathymetry and hydrographic survey suppory