Service basis
What this service supports
- Client need
- Site, corridor, slope, and development decisions where terrain, geology, or surface-process risk needs to be understood.
- Good fit when
- A site or corridor needs early geological and terrain screening before layout or detailed investigation.
- Slopes, earthworks, drainage, exposures, or landform processes may influence project decisions.
- Existing maps and reports need to be checked against accessible field observations.
- What you gain
- A clearer view of geological and terrain controls that may affect siting, investigation, and risk discussions.
- Traceable observations and evidence gaps that help the project team prioritize confirmation work.
- Useful inputs
- Site or corridor boundaries and the intended development or decision.
- Available topographic, geological, hazard, investigation, and design records.
- Known access constraints, observed ground issues, and the current project stage.
- Approach
- Reconnaissance, engineering-geologic mapping, terrain review, and evidence-led hazard screening.
- Typical outputs
- Mapped observations, risk context, and investigation or mitigation inputs.
- Professional limitation
- Screening does not replace a site-specific design investigation or professional design review.