Providing marine sediment analysis for an overseas port facility

摘要

In December 2020, Socotec's Laboratory and Analytical division were contracted to provide chemical and physical testing services, supporting a design and build project for a new port facility in a British Overseas Territory. Socotec's services would support our client's surveying works for the first phase of the project, with the results obtained from the samples tested used to inform decision making for the next phase of surveys. Working on behalf of a major civil engineering contractor, Socotec was originally instructed to provide Marine Management Organisation (MMO) approved testing on marine sediment samples. However, once site works had officially commenced, Socotec was subsequently instructed to also provide chemical testing services for environmental soils and borehole waters, as well as sediment, sludge and seawater from the ballast tanks within the existing port infrastructure.