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A Solutions Focused, Ground Engineering Technical Services & Data Delivery Business
Founded in 2006, Central Alliance is a solutions focused, ground engineering technical services and data delivery business.
We operate globally in the built and natural environment, working on projects that aspire to greatly improve the ways in which we live and work. We pride ourselves on being known as technically excellent, forward thinking, innovative and adaptive, always challenging tradition.
Our core business encompasses a range of services on, in or above the ground. Our full suite of services are grouped into three solutions, aligned to client and industry demands – all delivered in a safe, sustainable and efficient manner.
Our strength is our inherent drive to pursue value-creating opportunities. We do this through investing a proportion of our resources into researching and developing innovative ideas and solutions, and also by leveraging our existing assets, knowledge, skills and experience. It is this, that sets us apart from our competitors.
Our Purpose
To be relentlessly inquisitive, challenging tradition, to make the unknown, known and the unimaginable a reality
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Our Solutions & Services
Our solutions and services can be, and are, applied to a range of problems faced across the globe, throughout a spectrum of industries and for a range of clients
Data Acqusition
Ground Investigation, Survey, Instrumentation & Monitoring
- Ground Investigation: Site investigation, factual & interpretive reporting
- Survey & Geomatics: All aspects of land surveying, geomatics & aerial surveys
- Instrumentation & Monitoring: Geotechnical, environmental & structural monitoring, manual and remote systems
- Applied Technologies: R&D & technology led survey, investigation & monitoring solutions
- Structural Investigations: Coring, CCTV, scanning, instrumentation & muon tomography
Data Delivery & Analytics
Data Hosting, Delivery & Analysis
- Sight Automation: Data hosting portal for remote instrumentation & monitoring, Internet of Things, data delivery & analysis, warnings & alerts
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Delivery and analysis of data. Making sense of large volumes of data to provide insights
- Modelling & Visualisation: Digital twin & 3D CAD models – clean 3D & Revit models, solids & wireframes, DTM, DSM & DEM, point cloud viewers, Fly throughs / visualisations, point cloud & photogrammetry data, wireframes
Low Impact, Innovative Solutions for Ground Engineering, Mining & Waste Management
Electrokinetic Stabilisation, Dewatering & Piling
- Slope Stabilisation: Low impact alternative, combining soil strength improvement, drainage & structural enhancement
- Dewatering: Dewatering of fine-grained materials for applications in mining, the water & waste sectors, construction, infrastructure and geotechnics
- EK Piling: Installation & removal of steel case driven & sheet piles offering environmental benefits
Sectors We Serve
Rail
We manage the Principal Contractors Licence on behalf of RSK and deliver multiple survey and investigation frameworks for Network Rail & Tier 1 Contractors, whilst also delivering instrumentation and monitoring contracts and remote monitoring solutions through Sight Automation for geotechnical, environmental and structural applications.
Highways
We deliver survey frameworks for National Highways and ground investigations for local authorities, National Highways and Transport Scotland. Our extensive experience of delivering siteworks on earthworks slopes sets us apart from competitors.
Clean Energy
We deliver complex ground investigations, and surveys in the preconstruction phase of wind farm construction, solar PV installations, battery storage sites, onshore connections to offshore wind farms and power transmission lines.
Water
Our offering to the water sector includes turnkey ground investigation and survey solutions for all water sector assets including reservoirs, dams, water and sewage treatment works and all associated infrastructure.
Mining
Central Alliance deliver a variety of innovative solutions associated with the assessment and treatment of legacy issues associated with the UK mining sector. Services include remote sensing and analysis of coal tips, muon tomography, ochre dewatering, mining investigations and void infilling.
Waste
We are working across multiple sectors to transform difficult to handle waste materials and slurries, by using innovative Electrokinetic dewatering techniques.
Utilities
Central Alliance has extensive experience in the utilities sector through geotechnical aspects of energy production and distribution networks from ground investigations of remote wind turbines to monitoring landscapes for cabling routes. We work on behalf of MGroup, SPEN, BP and Keir, to name a few.
Environmental
We work on flood defence projects for the Environment Agency and their contractor's. With an overall focus on asset resilience to climate change, we intend to expand on the works that we are doing for flood risk assessment and monitoring and analysis of assets.
Property & Construction
We work through all stages of construction from pre-construction services including ground investigation and surveying, and monitoring during construction through to post-construction validation and monitoring.
Our Projects
Orkney Community Wind Farm – Faray
Ground Investigation, Post Fieldwork Monitoring & Factual Reporting
Glen Eagles – Investigating Beaver Burrows
Multiband Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Survey
Join Our Team
Come and join us and be a part of our team at Central Alliance, a team committed to building a better future
Join Central Alliance and be a part of projects that enable our economy and society to grow and become more sustainable. As part of the RSK Group, we work together to provide practical solutions to some of the greatest challenges societies have ever faced. We welcome challenges and are led by technology, but know our real strength lies in the diversity of our people. Come and join us and be a part of our team at Central Alliance; a team committed to building a better future.
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Central Alliance is proud to be a part of RSK Group
The RSK Group is a leading integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business offering bespoke end-to-end solutions to a variety of sectors. Headquartered in the UK but with an established presence throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, RSK helps organisations around the world achieve their business aspirations in a sustainable and efficient manner.