An ordinary residential job for Ray Bayliff, and most other geothermal drillers for that matter, involves drilling one set of boreholes to install a single geothermal heat pump system for one house.
A never-ending challenge in tracking groundwater availability and sustainability is the fact that it’s hidden underground, making it difficult to accurately characterize, says Kevin Dennehy, national coordinator of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Ground-Water Resources Program.
A demonstration project in Huntsville, Texas, evaluated the effectiveness of using Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP) to assess the integrity of soil nails.
Geotechnical drilling projects in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States have become increasingly complex as “developable” sites become more problematic because of severe geologic problems and topographic constraints.