Basics for Geotechnical Engineering Explorations

ISBN-13: 9783838304397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 68 str.

Opis

In this book I analyse a need to regulate the field of geotechnical engineering explorations to ensure the sustainable use of land and the earths crust including the resources of natural building materials. The analyses of the mutual impact of processes caused by human activities and natural conditions and processes is an essential prerequisite to environmentally sustainable planning, designing and building. This ensures maximum management of the accompanying environmental and socio-economic risks and costs. The output of a sustainable project solution is an economically efficient, environmentally friendly and resource-sparing stable building, which at the same time ensures a safe and healthy environment for a human being. Everything above-mentioned applies also to constructions (railroads, highways, airports, dams, wharfs, garbage damps, collectors and other infrastructure elements). The above analyses should be useful to the professionals dealing with geotechnical engineering research or anyone else dealing with real estate development or spatial planning.

O autorze

Tammemäe, Olavi
Olavi Tammemäe, Ph.D: studied Engineering Geology and Geotechnics at the Tartu University and Tallinn Technical University. He has dealt with Environmental Management, introducing EIA and EA in Estonia. From 2004 to 2007 he was Deputy Minister of the MoE.Until April 2009 he has been DG of the INTOSAI WGEA Secretariat at the NAO of Estonia.