Geotechnical engineering, or the science involving the behavior of soils and other earth materials, has an impact on every construction site or project. Often, consideration of the soil's engineering properties controls the project design and drive costs. Ascertaining whether proper preconstruction designs were completed in conjunction with the ability to thoroughly assess construction practices and efficacy allows S-E-A to assist clients with design and/or construction defect cases, construction-related failures, or standard of care issues.
In our comfort and convenience world, life without electrical power is almost unimaginable. It takes a power outage to remind us just how many of the things we use and take for granted are electrical. Even worse, improper installation or operation of electrical equipment, or the simple failure of a powered product or system to perform as it should, can lead to a dramatic demonstration of how deadly and destructive electricity can be. While electrically powered devices are ubiquitous in our world, the expertise to isolate and identify the cause of failures is not.