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Geotechnical Instrumentation, Monitoring and Testing

Geophysical Instrumentation and Testing

Terra Monitoring is a leader in the installation and monitoring of geotechnical instrumentation for the Civil engineering, Mining, Railway and Road infrastructure industries.


Terra Monitoring supplies, installs and distributes monitoring equipment for Geosense in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

Geo Sense

In-situ Testing services include:

  • Permeability tests including Lugeon testing
  • Goodman jack testing
  • Pile testing
  • Plate bearing testing
  • In-situ stress measurements
    • Pressure Meter testing
    • Vibrating Wire Borehole Stress Meter
  • Norwegian hydro fracture
  • Water sampling and pumping in small diameter boreholes
  • Borehole pump tests- large diameter
  • Piezometer installation- standpipe
  • Packers – conventional and wireline in all sizes.

Geotechnical Instrumentation

  • Pressure Transducers
  • Weir Monitors
  • Temperature Gauges
  • Load Cells
  • Earth Pressure Cells
  • Borehole Deformation Gauges
  • Borehole Pressure Cells
  • Tiltmeters
  • Inclinometers
  • Dataloggers
  • Readout units
  • Pendulums
  • Strain Gauges
  • Strain Meters
  • Joint Meters
  • Crack Meters
  • Convergence Meters
  • Tape Extensometers
  • Settlement Sensors
  • Stress Cells
  • Stress Meters
  • Cables
  • Vibrating Wire Piezometers

Projects

Exxaro Secure the Safety of its New Lakeside Towers Development

GeoGroup Companies help Exxaro Secure the Safety of its New Lakeside Towers Development

The New Exxaro’s Lakeside Towers Office Development was developed over a dolomite rock formation. The dolomite formation is renowned for developing sinkholes and this poses a potential risk to the safety of structures built upon them and hence the people within those structures.

Vibrating Wire Piezometers

Vibrating Wire Piezometers

Tenke Fungurume Mine Project DRC Terra Monitoring (Pty) Ltd. was appointed by Golder Associates Africa (Pty) Ltd. to install eight Vibrating Wire Piezometers VWP in the North Embankment, North Saddle Embankment and Spillway Embankment of the TSF tailing dam.