GEOSEC Network
The Brand for Foundation Soil Consolidation
GEOSEC group represents a reliable business enterprise where craftsmanship and innovation are constantly combined to benefit the quality of the proposed solutions. With more than 20 years of solid, effective and continuous company experience, many thousands of procedures carried out, GEOSEC solves stability issues and helps, with responsibility, respect for the environment and competence, to recover and preserve the value of houses, schools, industries, roads, infrastructures, airports, monuments and buildings of historical, artistic and cultural value, guaranteeing fully reliable solutions for the safety of all clients on a daily basis.
A highly technological and innovative environment determines GEOSEC’s ability to combine its search for cutting-edge solutions with manufacturing craftsmanship on a perfect human scale.
Our history
GEOSEC was founded in the early 2000s, with the aim of analyzing and understanding the behaviour of soils following expanding resin injections. Proponent of a new method for injecting expanding resin into the ground, in a short time GEOSEC®, revolutionized the sector’s outlook by improving the quality and above all the effectiveness of injections into the ground, carrying them out in a targeted and controlled way thanks to the innovative support of non-invasive diagnostic systems capable of reconstructing (unique in this sector) sequential 4D images of the soils under buildings, before, during and after injections.
The GEOSEC method makes it possible to monitor the work going on in the ground so as to direct consolidation to zones where it is needed, guaranteeing better uniformity of stabilization across soft and compact soils located under the same building. The results and success achieved over the years, thanks to the thousands of cases of subsidence we have definitively resolved, have allowed GEOSEC to gradually expand into many European countries, authoritatively gaining a position of technological leadership which is clearly illustrated by the creation of a concrete value and significant improvements in the industry for consolidating the ground using expanding resin injections. Reliability also recognized by various international insurance groups that certify our solutions with ten-year good workmanship warranty coverage.
This success has been further consolidated by the development of new exclusive and patented applications with increasingly higher levels of performance and precision to the benefit of existing buildings, territories and the civil and scientific communities, with particular regard to seismic safety. This is why today GEOSEC is the reference brand in targeted consolidation using resin injections in the ground.
A journey of success lasting over two decades
- 2023
GEOSEC Ground Engineering Ltd
GEOSEC Ground Engineering Ltd, the fourth sister company of the group is established with headquarters in London business district to handle operations throughout United Kingdom.
- 2022
ROBOPILE® FILING OF EUROPEAN PATENT NO. EP4004293
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, GEOSEC introduced ROBOPILE®, a semi-automated robotic machine for rapidly and sequentially installing structural steel micropiles in building foundations and rigid floors. This innovation enhances application efficiency and safety on site, enabling the installation of over 80 micropiles a day while reducing manual handling. With remote control and electronic work plan transposition, it can adapt to various operating environments and achieve greater piling depths.
- 2020
CSTB France
CSTB France, the French Technical Control Institute issues a technical report to GEOSEC FRANCE on our soil consolidation and compaction procedures using expanding resin injections – SEE & SHOOT® methods.
- 2016
ICMQ CERTIFIES THE SOIL STABILIZATION METHOD AND DEFINES ITS GOOD ENGINEERING PRACTICES
GEOSEC group receives an additional new technical qualification of the procedure for consolidating and lifting the substrates of subsided surfaces.
10-YEARS GOOD WORKMANSHIP WARRANTY FOR GEOSEC®
Leading insurance companies in the non-life branch become GEOSEC partners, providing civil liability cover towards third parties and workers and TEN-YEARS cover for all European work performed.
LIQUEMIT® FILING OF EUROPEAN PATENT NO. EP3445915
Method and kit for mitigating the risk of Liquefaction of ground to be consolidated.
- 2015
GEOSEC® WORLD WIDE
Birth of GEOSEC World Wide, the business network to export the GEOSEC® model around the world.
GROUNDFIX® MICROPILES
The first technological division for hydraulic-pressed micropiles for deep applications established.
- 2014
GEOSEC DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
GEOSEC Deutschland, the third sister company of the group is established with headquarters in Solingen business district to handle operations throughout Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.
GEOSEC ACADEMIA
GEOSEC ACADEMIA, a free group for scientific and technical dissemination specializing in soil consolidation solutions implementing expanding resin injections. Its activity is spread thanks to countless seminars and conferences organized every year, also in collaboration with professional associations, trade european associations and universities.
SOCOTEC FRANCE
SOCOTEC, the French Technical Control Institute issues a technical report to GEOSEC FRANCE on our soil consolidation and compaction procedures using expanding resin injections – SEE & SHOOT® and SOIL STABILIZATION ™ methods.
SEISMIC DEFENDER® FILING OF EUROPEAN PATENT NO. EP1956147
Local seismic protection method for existing and/or possible construction sites destined for the foundation areas and those surrounding the building construction
- 2011
SEE&SHOOT® FILING OF EUROPEAN PATENT NO. EP2543769
Method of consolidating foundation soils by means of targeted injections of expanding resins supported by 4D geophysical diagnostic systems.
GEOSEC FRANCE sas
GEOSEC france the second sister company of the group, with headquarters in St. Thibault de Vigne, industrial district in Paris, for handling operations throughout France, Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland.
ICMQ TECHNICAL STANDARD QUALIFICATION EN 12715
ICMQ, a European technical qualification body, awards GEOSEC the second technical qualification by issuing the SEE&SHOOT soil consolidation procedure with a certificate of conformity to standard EN 12715 Execution of Special Geotechnical Work – Grouting.
- 2010
ICMQ CERTIFIES GEOSEC® AND DEFINES ITS GOOD GROUND ENGINEERING PRACTICES
ICMQ, a prestigious European technical qualification body, leader in the construction sector, after accurate technical verification awards GEOSEC®, with the Favourable Technical Notice (standard EN ISO / IEC 17020) for its SEE&SHOOT® foundation soil consolidation procedure. This officially initiates a process of high voluntary technical qualification of GEOSEC® solutions, which over the years will decisively steer the entire reference market, stimulating healthy competition between the main players, benefiting the quality and prestige of the various solutions on offer and of the entire technological district of the sector.
- 2008
GEOSEC ESPAÑA SL
GEOSEC Espana, the first sister company of the group, with headquarters in the industrial district of Coslada in Madrid, for handling operations throughout Spain and Portugal.
SEE&SHOOT® FILING OF EUROPEAN PATENT NO. EP1914350
Method for consolidating and stabilizing the ground by injecting expanding resins supported by 4D geophysical diagnostic systems.
- 2007
SEISMIC DEFENDER® FILING OF EUROPEAN PATENT NO. EP1956147
Method for the seismic protection and safety of buildings by injecting expanding resins into the ground.
- 2003
GEOSEC, THE ORIGINS OF SUCCESS FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.
It was on February 11, 2003, in the small province of Parma, Italy, best known for its renowned gastronomic, cultural and artistic excellences, that GEOSEC foundation engineering was born. Around that time expanding resins were being injected into the ground under foundations to raise buildings. Bores were made at almost set distances and the expanding resins were injected in an attempt to lift structures. Back then, the only visible effect of these procedures was the closure of cracks in the walls, but what was really going on below ground? Had the resin really been laid to be effective over time? Had it spread correctly through the ground? Had the gaps and excess interstitial waters, often the cause of subsidence, really been filled and displaced? How was it possible to find out and verify what was happening under the buildings without being able to excavate or move the house? It was in seeking an answer to these simple and banal questions that GEOSEC filed the first of its many successful sector patents. The GEOSEC method was born, thanks to integration of resin injections with 3D tomographic control of the electrical resistivity of the ground. “To inject and at the same time control what is happening in the ground through non-destructive electronic images”. In so doing, it quickly became evident that it really was possible to intervene in an even more informed, precise and controlled way. Over time, with experience, millions of processed data and thousands of operations performed, the GEOSEC method became “the method”, a reference point that was widely appreciated, recognized and imitated. The GEOSEC method undoubtedly represented a real revolution in the sector, introducing greater technological investments into daily construction site operations and therefore greater professional expertise. It was undoubtedly a positive stimulus for the entire reference sector, raising the bar of technological competition to the benefit of solutions, clients and the market. Whereas for us at GEOSEC, nearly all engineers and geologists, it has always and simply been a philosophy of doing ethical business for people, offering concrete and professional answers together with increasingly reliable and precise solutions, so much so that today the GEOSEC method is recognized in every country where it is applied by professionals and engineers and technical control and validation institutes have fully sanctioned its technological standing. That said, for the GEOSEC partners, engineers Marco Occhi, Andrea Occhi and Daniele Gualerzi, the best recognition is, and always has been, the broad consensus received from the company’s client friends acquired in more than 20 years of responsible activity.