ABSTRACT
The process by which geological, geotechnical and other relevant information which might affect the construction or performance of a civil engineering or building project is acquired.
This chapter describes the information which needs to be gathered to allow the design of groundwater lowering systems. Good practice in the planning and execution of site investigations is outlined, together with brief details of methods used for boring, probing, testing, etc. The analysis of the data gathered during site investigation is described with the design methods in Chapter 7.
