Concept
The Thames Gateway Region consists of a 40-mile stretch of land along the River Thames. It is the focus for the biggest building programme to be undertaken in the UK for over 50 years with close to 200,000 new homes to be built. This new interdisciplinary project has been launched to focus on making geoscience information for the Thames Gateway more accessible, relevant and understandable to the wide range of users involved in the sustainable regeneration and development of the Gateway.
Rapid developments in three-dimensional (3D) modelling software are now providing challenging and exciting possibilities for constructing high-resolution geological models of the shallow sub-surface. Using this new technology (supported by our geological and geotechnical archives), we can start to predict not only the type of rocks that lie beneath our feet, but also their engineering properties (rock strength, shrink-swell characteristics and compressibility) and hydrological properties (permeability, porosity, thickness of the unsaturated zone or the presence of perched water tables).
Contact
Dr Katherine Royse
Project Manager
Thames Gateway
Tel: 0115 9363456
