ABSTRACT
Heightened development activity occurring throughout the world leaves us with more challenging or marginal land for future developments. Soil related issues and challenges, are often poorly or conservatively evaluated thus inviting risk or additional costs to the project. This paper shares the case studies of challenges encountered for value engineering with respect to geotechnical investigation for a 40 Storied Twin towers in Smart City, Cochin and the problems encountered with the bulk movement of very soft clay during the construction of foundation for a Mall at Maradu, Cochin. In terms of controlling the risks of over-expenditure on a project, a good soil investigation can save a client considerable amount in the project foundation cost even up to 100%. It is worthwhile to spent up to 2% of the project cost in geotechnical investigation as a safety against financial risk involved due to inadequate data.
