Client: Murphy New Homes
Location: Cork, Ireland
Date: 2021
Síor Consulting Ltd. (Síor) was commissioned to identify and map potential karstic features, employing our multifaceted expertise in hydrological, hydrogeological, geophysical, and geospatial solutions to ensure sustainable operations and mitigate associated risks.
Construction in limestone areas necessitates careful consideration of potential karstic features—dissolution formations that can lead to ground subsidence, causing significant structural damage and, in extreme cases, the total collapse of structures. Síor played a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive hydrological, hydrogeological, geophysical, and geospatial consulting services to support the Client in one of Ireland’s limestone regions.
Síor was tasked with:
- Providing hydrological and hydrogeological assessments.
- Acquisition and analysis of geophysical data to inform hydrogeological regimes and identify karstic features.
- Identify potential karstic features to inform Client development activities through technical reporting. Conceptualisation and development of bespoke, database solutions delivered as easily accessible web-based applications.
Síor made use of our combined geoscientific expertise to:
- Execute a comprehensive, data-driven, top-down, geospatial analysis to inform site-based activities, to complete enabling technical reporting works.
- Carry out detailed site walkovers and geophysical surveying (such as, Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT)), to collect field- data and identify the presence or absence of dissolution features (such as, caves, sinkholes, or springs).
- Report production summarising findings to inform continued works.
