{"id":55,"date":"2019-02-11T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/desktop-study-leeds\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:24:00","slug":"desktop-study-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/11\/desktop-study-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Study &#8211; Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Desktop Study &#8211; Leeds<\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southwest Environmental Limited<\/a> have recently issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/navigation_pages\/navigation_geotechnical_consultants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geotechnical <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/Deskto%20Study_copy(1).html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Desktop Study<\/a> for a site in Leeds. The report followed our typical format for a Geotechnical Desktop Study including sections on:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Site Information<\/li>\n<li>Land Use<\/li>\n<li>Geology<\/li>\n<li>Ground Stability Issues<\/li>\n<li>Mining History<\/li>\n<li>Review of Legacy Borehole Data&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this instance we were asked to provide climate data and earth quake (seismic) data. It is interesting for us when we asked to vary or reports! As we do get a l;little tired of following the same format time and time again.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Earth Quakes in the UK<\/h3>\n<p><span>The largest known <b>British earthquake<\/b>  occurred near the Dogger Bank in 1931, with a magnitude of 6.1.  Fortunately, it was 60 miles offshore but was still powerful enough to  cause minor damage to buildings on the east coast of <b>England<\/b>. The most damaging <b>UK earthquake<\/b> was in the Colchester area in 1884. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk\/hazard\/uk_hazard_map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The BGS publish a map of seismic reflection<\/a> which we used to find a value for the design.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Climatic Variation&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><span>There are of course good records for climate data in the UK, however we need to add <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/526000\/climate-adrep-environment-agency.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowances for climate change<\/a> these are then added on to modelled variances, whether these be historic maximum values or modelled outcomes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desktop Study &#8211; Leeds Southwest Environmental Limited have recently issued a Geotechnical Desktop Study for a site in Leeds. The report followed our typical format for a Geotechnical Desktop Study including sections on: Site Information Land Use Geology Ground Stability Issues Mining History Review of Legacy Borehole Data&nbsp; In this instance we were asked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop-study","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}