01
Design
PE(Civil) · PE(Geo) · QP(Design)
Earth retaining structures, basements, foundations, tunnels and ground improvement, analysed in Plaxis 2D and 3D.
North-South Corridor N108 tunnel, design consultant, 2018
EFFICIENCY · ECONOMY · EXCELLENCE
Geotechnical and underground engineering consultants in Singapore.
We design, independently check and supervise tunnels, deep excavations, foundations and marine works for public agencies and leading contractors.
90+
Technical staff
15
Nationalities
PE · AC · ACO
Licensed Professional Engineers, Accredited Checkers and a BCA-registered Accredited Checking Organisation
90+
Technical staff
15
Nationalities
PE · AC · ACO
Licensed Professional Engineers, Accredited Checkers and a BCA-registered Accredited Checking Organisation
−3 m · WHO WE ARE
A specialist ground engineering consultancy.
GeoAlliance Consultants Pte Ltd is a specialist ground engineering consultancy established by a group of registered professional engineers in Singapore. Our team has wide hands-on experience in both the design and supervision of civil and geotechnical engineering works in Singapore and overseas.
Our team members have been involved in projects on the MRT North East Line, Circle Line and Downtown Line, Marina Coastal Expressway, Kim Chuan Sewerage Plant and Changi Outfall. Merging our skills, experience and resources, we provide innovative technical solutions for geotechnical and underground space projects. We are a professional engineering corporation licensed by the Professional Engineers Board Singapore and an Accredited Checking Organisation registered with the Building and Construction Authority.
In more than a decade the company has become one of the fastest growing consulting firms in Singapore, with a technical staff of more than 90 from 15 countries and hundreds of completed projects.
Why GeoAlliance
- 01Professional Engineers with PE(Civil), PE(Geo) and AC(Geo) registrations
- 02Experience with local building authorities, international consultants and contractors
- 03A "can-do" attitude
- 04Innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions
- 05Efficient and excellent services
- 06A reliable business and project partner
- 07Ready to integrate with the client's team
TRUSTED BY
- LTA
- PUB
- JTC
- HDB
- MOH
- MOE
- DSTA
- NParks
and international consultants and contractors including Beca, Black & Veatch, Gammon, Obayashi and Züblin.
−6 m · THREE ROLES
One firm, three statutory roles.
Singapore's building regulations separate the engineer who designs, the engineer who checks and the engineer who supervises. GeoAlliance is qualified to act in each role.
02
Check
AC · AC(Geo) · Accredited Checking Organisation
Independent analysis and checking of geotechnical and structural designs before they are built.
HDB Bidadari Contracts 1 to 3, Specialist Accredited Checker, 2015
03
Supervise
QP(Supervision) · Resident Engineers · Resident Technical Officers
Full-time site supervision of stations, tunnels and pipe-jacking works to the approved plans.
Cross Island Line CR103 and CR113, QP(Supervision), 2022
−10 m · SERVICES
Professional services at every stage of a project.
01Study & Planning
- Feasibility studies
- Planning of geotechnical investigations
- Tender design and engineering support for tenders
- Preliminary designs for cost estimates
- Value engineering and design optimisation
- Risk assessments
- Traffic consultancy
- Quantity survey
02Analysis & Design
- Geotechnical interpretative studies
- Geotechnical instrumentation
- Earth retaining structures (ERSS or TERS) and basements
- Numerical modelling (Plaxis 2D and 3D, ETABS, SAFE, Staad Pro, Prokon)
- Foundations for buildings and bridges
- Coastal and offshore foundations
- Coastal and port development
- Underpinning and strengthening of existing structures
- Damage assessment to buildings
- Slope stability and stabilisation
- Ground improvement
- Cut-and-cover, bored and mined tunnels
- Pipe-jacking and shafts
- Cofferdams
- Industrial and residential buildings
- QECP services
03Statutory Submission
- PE(Civil) services
- PE(Geo) services
- AC and AC(Geo) services
- Submissions to URA, BCA, PUB, LTA Rail, LTA Road, JTC, SP, MPA and NParks
04Construction Supervision
- QP(Supervision) and PE(Geo) for stations, tunnels and pipe-jacking
- Resident Engineers and Resident Technical Officers
- Instrumentation and monitoring
- Health and safety officers
- QA/QC engineers
05Project Management
- Construction planning and advice
- Construction methods and programmes
- Cost estimation
- Visual inspection of buildings, MRT stations, tunnels, slopes and infrastructure
- Cost control and claim evaluation
- Expert witness services
Need a Resident Engineer or RTO on site?RE and RTO services
▽ −12.0 m · MARINE CLAY
−15 m to −32 m · PROJECTS BY SECTOR
What we have built into the ground.
04.1 · −15 m
Roadworks
Widening of Upper Paya Lebar Road
Client Land Transport Authority
Service Qualified Person (Supervision)
Date End 2015
Widening of Upper Paya Lebar Road from Bartley Road to Upper Serangoon Road.
Contract ER357, access road from Faber Walk to Commonwealth Avenue West
Client Land Transport Authority
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical)
Date May 2012
Independent geotechnical analysis of temporary and permanent cantilever contiguous bored pile retaining walls up to 8 m high, and of slope stability.
04.2 · −17 m
Public and private housing
HDB block at Woodlands Street 31 (Woodlands N3 C14)
Client Housing & Development Board
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical)
Date February 2012
A 33-storey residential block of 222 units. Independent geotechnical analysis and checking of the pile foundation design and evaluation of pile load tests.
04.3 · −19 m
Commercial buildings
Capitol Redevelopment
Client Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner (SEA)
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical), ERSS
Date End 2015
Conservation of Capitol Theatre, Capitol Building and Stamford House as a commercial and hotel development with six basements and a subway under North Bridge Road, beside City Hall MRT station and tunnels.
Bukit Panjang Mixed Development
Client Sim Lian Group
Service Full detailed design, ERSS
Date In progress (90% complete)
Commercial, residential and SOHO development integrated with a bus interchange; two basements within the railway protection zone of Bukit Panjang MRT station, including a 13 m wide canal diversion.
04.4 · −21 m
Education, research and medical
Changi General Hospital Medical Centre
Client Ministry of Health
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical)
Date May 2015
Independent geotechnical analysis and checking of permanent and temporary ERSS for three basements and a linkway to the existing hospital.
Temasek Polytechnic, SIT building
Client V3 Construction
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical), ERSS
Date September 2014
An eight-storey institutional building with two basements.
P&G Innovation Centre
Client Gammon Construction
Service Qualified Person (Design), ERSS
Date June 2012
A six-storey research and development centre with two basements at Biopolis; ERSS support system and construction decking.
04.5 · −24 m
Public infrastructure
Drainage master plans, Bukit Timah Canal (Upper) to Sungei Pandan
Client Public Utilities Board, with Black & Veatch
Service Specialist PE (Geotechnical)
Date July 2014
Construction methodology, geotechnical matters and temporary works design support for waterway improvements and flood mitigation.
Slopes in Labrador Nature Reserve
Client National Parks Board
Service Preliminary studies and visual inspections
Date October 2012
Inspection, preliminary risk analysis and recommendations for slope strengthening and protection.
Murnane Pipeline
Client Black & Veatch (SEA)
Service Geotechnical consultancy
Date Feasibility March 2013, detailed design in progress
A PUB water pipeline from Murnane Service Reservoir to Marina South, crossing below several MRT tunnels, roads and buildings: construction method, alignment study and cost estimate.
04.6 · −28 m
Mass rapid transit
Thomson Line T211 (Sin Ming) and T215 (Mount Pleasant)
Client Land Transport Authority
Service Qualified Person (Supervision)
Date In progress
Value Construction cost S$454 million, contractor Penta-Ocean
Qualified Person (Supervision) services including Resident Engineers and RTOs for Sin Ming and Mount Pleasant stations and the associated cut-and-cover and bored tunnels.
Downtown Line 3, Contract 9188B1
Client Ecas-EJ Consultants
Service QP Supervision (Geotechnical) for C928 and C929A
Date In progress
Bedok Town Park station and tunnels, and cut-and-cover and bored tunnels between Ubi and Kaki Bukit.
Since then: Circle Line 6 (2017), Jurong Region Line J111 and J112 (2021) and five Cross Island Line contracts (2022).
View mass rapid transit projects04.7 · −32 m
Airport and port
Reclamation at Tuas View Extension and Jurong Island
Client JTC
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical)
Date In progress
Stability of the perimeter bund and impact assessment for reclamation at Jurong Island Westward Extension, Ayer Chawan Phase 2 and Tuas View Extension Area A2.
Changi Terminal 5
Client Ministry of Transport
Service Specialist Accredited Checker (Geotechnical)
Date In progress
Independent geotechnical analysis of canal and service diversions, slope cutting and filling, and ground improvement for the airport's land preparation works.
−36 m · TRACK RECORD
Appointed by LTA on four successive MRT lines.
- 2012
Thomson Line, advance earthworks supervision at Mandai Depot
- 2014
Thomson Line T211 and T215, S$20.5M supervision contract
- 2017
Circle Line 6 C882 and C883, S$23M
- 2021
Jurong Region Line J111 and J112, S$21M (in consortium)
- 2022
Cross Island Line, five contracts, about S$71M
2018
Design consultant on the S$446M North-South Corridor N108 design-and-build contract, with China Railway First Group.
90+
Technical staff
15
Nationalities
5
MRT lines (TEL, CCL, DTL, JRL, CRL)
4
Countries overseas (Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam)
What everything rests on: registered specialists.
Er. Niu Jianxin
Founder and Managing Director
PE(Civil) · PE(Geo) · AC(Geo) · CPEng (Australia)
A Specialist Professional Engineer (Geotechnical) and Specialist Accredited Checker with 29 years of experience on projects including the North East, Circle and Thomson-East Coast MRT lines, Marina Coastal Expressway and the DTSS tunnels.
- Er. Chua Chin HiangSenior Director
- Er. Tham Poh KuanPrincipal and Accredited Checker
- Er. Wee Soon EngProject Manager
- Er. Max Goi Meng HweeDirector
- Prof. Lee Fook HouGeotechnical Consultant
- Dr. Wong Kwong YanSenior Consultant
Structural · Geotechnical · Infrastructure · QP Supervision · Tendering
Meet the teamTo provide innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions, and achieve sustainable development.
BEDROCK
Licensed, certified and recognised.
Licensed
- Professional Engineers Board SingaporeLicence to supply professional engineering services
- BCA Accredited Checking OrganisationAccredited Checking Organisation (ACO) registered with the Building & Construction Authority
- BCA Public Sector Panels of Consultants, Panel CS03Enables us to bid for public tenders up to 16 million project valuesSince August 2022
Certified
- ISO 9001Quality Management SystemSince October 2015
- ISO 14001Environmental Management SystemSince October 2015
- ISO 45001Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- bizSAFE Level 3Approved by the WSH CouncilSince September 2016
Recognised
- LTA Annual Safety, Health and Environment Award 2020LTA Annual SHE Award Convention (ASAC) 2020, Qualified Person (Supervision) for Contracts C882 and C883
- Enterprise 50 Award 2017Recognises our contribution to economic development in Singapore and overseas
- Singapore SME 1000, 2016Singapore SME 1000 Best Performance Company
RESURFACE
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