Natural hazards
Various natural processes can pose a threat to settlement areas, railways, roads and other infrastructures.
Whether the problem concerns floods, debris flows, landslides, collapses, avalanches, earthquakes, or hazards resulting from thawing glaciers and permafrost, such as flood waves and glacial lake outbursts (GLOF): we specialise in assessing, analysing and quantifying the hazards and risks.
Our services include:
- Incident response
- Hazard management
- Incident documentation
- Incident analysis
- Risk analysis for any kind of natural process
- Hazard maps for local planning
- Seismic microzonation (earthquakes)
- Risk analysis:
Risk calculation
Benefit/cost calculation
Resilience toolbox - Planning of protective measures and infrastructure protection:
Rockface stabilisation
Rock removal / safety detonations
Building measures / Protective structures
Stabilisation of subsidence and landslides - Construction management and supervision
- Planning and support for surveillance and alarm systems
- Alarm, early-warning and monitoring concepts
- Emergency planning
- Occupational safety concepts
- Work on hanging ropes
Contact us:
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Head office Zollikofen
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GEOTEST Basel
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GEOTEST Davos
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GEOTEST Givisiez
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GEOTEST Horw
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GEOTEST Le Mont-sur-Lausanne