RINA North America understands that characterizing site conditions and providing reliable data are critical for the long-term success of our client’s projects.
Our team of engineers and scientists have provided in-depth studies, reports, and expert testimony for clients across industrial and manufacturing, transportation, and local/state/federal sectors.
Our innovative, cost-effective solutions and professional recommendations assist clients in designing geotechnical aspects of projects, achieving compliance with necessary regulatory agencies, and obtaining permits for project construction.
Our experience ranges from geotechnical site characterization to investigation of groundwater conditions, to the design and construction of foundation systems and water management systems.
Our team of experts stands ready to provide comprehensive solutions to your greatest project challenges.
Geosciences
- Subsurface Investigations
- Earth Structure Design (Dams and Reservoirs)
- Foundation Design
- Material Management Planning/Mining
- Soil Improvement and Grouting
- Groundwater Studies and Seepage Control
Permitting
- Local, State + Federal Permitting
Environmental
- Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
- Site Remediation
- Hazardous Material Management
- Forensic Analysis
- Compliance Support
- Waste/Soil Classification + Disposal Requirements
We provided geotechnical consulting services related to design and construction of wind farm turbine foundations.
We coordinated with other consulting and engineering firms to develop alternative foundation designs when necessary.
We also provided environmental consulting services and performed a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for the entire wind farm site and transmission line corridor.
In addition, we assisted with the permitting of the wind farm including local and state permits, SPCC plans, and operations and maintenance documentation.
We were retained by Midwest Generation (MWG) to perform hydrogeological investigations of the ash ponds at five coal-fired power plant sites in northern and central Illinois.
We developed initial investigation plans that included the proposed monitoring well locations and a proposed list of analytes that were approved by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA).
We then implemented the initial investigations at each of the sites by installing the required number of monitoring wells, collecting groundwater samples and geological data, and measuring the elevation of the groundwater, the ash ponds, and any nearby surface water bodies. The data collected during the initial investigations was compiled and the results were presented in reports that were submitted to the IEPA, along with long-term groundwater monitoring plans.
Midwest Generation also retained our company to conduct an investigation into the bottom of three inactive process ponds located at its Will County Station. The purpose of the investigation is to determine the integrity of the pond bottoms and the likelihood that they are hydraulically connected to the nearby Des Plaines River.
We conducted the investigation using our boats and sediment sampling equipment. This work was performed as part of a much larger effort to assist Midwest Generation in upgrading all of the NPDES Permits for all of their Illinois plants.
As part of this larger effort, we conducted numerous impact assessments and feasibility studies involving IEPA required changes regarding management of coal pile runoff and boiler cleaning waste at its facilities.
The Deep River Rock Riffle Improvements focused on the construction of a rock riffle dam that promotes the public's use of Deep River and makes it a destination site in Northwest Indiana.
Our scope of services included evaluation of geotechnical conditions for levee design, environmental investigations and permitting, stormwater sewer and watershed studies, pedestrian bridge design including pile design, parking lot and pathway design, and rock riffle design. The project is located within the floodway of Deep River and extensive permitting and government approvals were required for construction.
We teamed with the FutureGen Alliance as the Owner’s Engineer on the pipeline and storage project FutureGen2.0.
We worked on many aspects of the project, including project management, construction management, design of drill pads and roadways, permitting and land acquisition support, siting, planning and layout of the 28-mile CO2 pipeline and injection site facilities for the FutureGen 2.0 carbon captured and sequestration project.
We performed the preliminary and final designs, planning, coordination, layouts, and engineering of the site surface facilities, including the injection pad, the monitoring wells, access roads, other utilities such as electrical and sewer, and local road upgrades as well as design of the site control building located at the injection site. We also performed overall project management and construction management of the pipeline and storage project.
The City of West Chicago required major soil and groundwater remediation of a 14-acre plot of land slated by the city for a major redevelopment. The city-owned land had historically been used for a wide variety of industrial uses (rail scrap yards, manufacturing, public works storage, etc.), and has been contaminated with heavy metals (notably mercury), PCBs, PNAs, and petroleum-based compounds.
We have been contracted to complete the entire remediation effort – over 100,000 cubic yards of impacted soils. The remedial effort includes the removal and appropriate disposal of the radium-contaminated soils.
We developed the approved remedial plan, which employs radium screening in the field to determine the locations for soil excavation.
We are responsible for all site investigation, coordination, feasibility studies, development of remedial action plans, implementation, and coordination with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, which is overseeing the remedial effort.
