Education & Institutional

S. W. Cole has more experience working on secondary schools and colleges in Maine than any other firm of our type. We have also worked on most every college campus in Maine and many in New Hampshire. Our projects include academic and research buildings, dormitories, specialty research laboratories and structures. Our experience with athletic facilities includes artificial turf fields, natural turf fields, indoor and outdoor tracks, indoor arenas, stadium seating projects, and buildings. We have also provided services for geothermal wells installed for heating and cooling systems. Our pavement engineers provide pavement management plans for campus wide networks of roadways and parking lots.

Our services include the following:

Geotechnical Services

• Exploration coordination and documentation

• Laboratory, soil and rock testing

• Slope stability

• Site specific seismic event mapping and evaluation

• Geotechnical recommendations for buildings, switchyards and substations

• LPILE parameters

• Recommendations for on-site soil re-use

• Site Feasibility

• Drilling Subcontracting, Logistics and Project Management

• Foundation Design Parameters

• Soil Improvement

• Slope Stability

• Subsurface Drainage

• Pavement Management Plans for campus road systems and parking lots

Geologic Services

• Geothermal Well Assessments

• Geothermal Well Installation Monitoring and Testing

• Third-Party Erosion Control Observations

• Seismic Risk Analysis

• Construction Blasting Assessments

• Assessment of Borrow Pits and Quarries

• Hydrogeology

• Engineering Geology

• Rock Core Classification and Logs

• Water Resource Evaluation, Sampling and Testing

Ecological Services

• Third party erosion control documentation

• Environmental compliance documentation

• Soil, wetlands and vernal pool mapping

• Wetlands Identification and Delineation

• Vernal Pool Assessments

• Functional Assessment and Mitigation

• Wetland Permitting

• Soil Surveys and Mapping

• Site Selection / Soil Suitability Evaluations

• Dredge Spoils Permitting

• Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species Consulting

• Site Evaluation for On-Site Subsurface Wastewater Disposal System Design

• Biological Assessments

• Deer Wintering Yard Identification

• Monitoring of Environmental Compliance

Construction Quality Control Services

• Laboratory and field: soil, concrete and grout testing

• Reinforcing steel documentation

• Subgrade observations

• Rock anchor borehole, anchor installation, grouting and tensioning documentation

• Blast Monitoring with Seismographs

• Soil/Aggregate Sampling & Testing

• Subgrade Preparation Observations

• Soil Compaction Testing

• Concrete and Grout Testing

• Anchor Bolt Tension Testing

• Mobile Testing Laboratories for Long-Term Projects

• Laboratory testing of concrete, soil and aggregates