Bennett Trenchless provides a full range of trenchless design services including geotechnical evaluations, feasibility studies, design calculations, cost estimates, and final specifications and drawings. Dr. David Bennett has over 40 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and trenchless technology and has provided claims evaluation and expert witness services on over 35 cases involving trenchless construction, utility damage, injuries and deaths. Bennett Trenchless provides a range of engineering services for contractors, including preparation of pipe stress, pullback, and hydrofracture calculations for HDD submittals, and jacking force calculations for microtunneled and pipe jacked projects.
Bennett Trenchless Engineers, a certified SBE specialty consulting engineering firm located in Folsom, CA, focuses 100% on trenchless technology. The principal of the firm, David Bennett, is a recognized industry leader who brings extensive experience to bear in developing innovative, cost-effective solutions to complex, real-world problems. The firm specializes in all aspects of design, including feasibility studies, full design services, and construction management services. Firm technologies include microtunneling, open-shield pipejacking, earth pressure balance pipejacking and tunneling, horizontal directional drilling, pilot tube/guided boring, pipe ramming, direct pipe, pipe bursting, and pipe rehabilitation.
Dr. David Bennett has over 40 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and trenchless technology and has provided expert witness services on over 35 cases involving HDD, microtunneling, pipe jacking, geotechnical issues, gas line and other utility strikes, and cases involving injuries and deaths. He has represented owners, engineering firms, general contractors, and trenchless subcontractors. He advises clients regarding the reasonableness of their claims, prepares expert reports, participates in mediation, gives depositions, and testifies at trial.
We provide a full range of engineering services during construction including construction management and specialty inspections, submittal review, and post-construction services. Pre-bidding services have included the evaluation of contractor pre-qualification submittal packages, ensuring that the bidding contractors have an appropriate level of experience to match the complexity of the project. The firm has extensive experience in evaluation of contractor submittals and RFIs, in addition to evaluation of value engineering proposals from the contractor.