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Geotechnical survey in Bodrum

The ground report for a building permit, an urban renewal file or a zoning study. The office is in Ortakent and the drilling trucks work across the peninsula. The plot is seen in person, the borehole count is set there, and the report is written to TBDY 2018.

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The crew on site in Bodrum, operator at the drilling mast
Bodrum · the crew on site, Otto archive

Rock, stone walls, narrow lanes

Drilling in Bodrum often runs into rock. Limestone comes out into the core box and the samples sent to the laboratory are carbonate rock. Borehole depth and test selection are therefore not planned the way they would be on soft ground in a plain. Core drilling in rock appears as its own line in the quote, and how many metres to go is discussed at the site visit.

Access is the second reality. Slopes, stone walls and narrow lanes decide whether the truck gets onto the plot. At the site visit the gate width, the road and the approach to each borehole point are looked at together. Where the truck cannot get in, the portable core drill takes over, as it did on the rocky ground at Kızılburun.

The report goes to the municipality. The ground report in a building permit file is submitted to Bodrum Municipality, and the urban renewal report is also required by the provincial directorate of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change. A planning-stage survey is a different job and covers a whole plan area. Otto Mühendislik completed one at Göktepe for Bodrum Municipality.

Work completed in Bodrum

Work in Bodrum is not only villa plots. The ground investigations for a 174-block housing project in Ortakent, a 300-block housing and hotel project in Göl, 149 blocks in Geriş and 80 blocks with a hotel in Kadıkalesi were carried out by this crew. The school and hospital projects in Ortakent, the Konacık science high school and the Torba–Gürece ring road are on the same list. All with the client's name.

Ortakent 174-block housing project, geotechnical survey

Ilgın–Vema–Emlak KonutBodrum · Ortakent · Corporate clients

Göl 300-block housing and hotel project, geotechnical survey

Tüya A.Ş.Bodrum · Göl · Housing and hotels

Ortakent 9-block school project, geotechnical survey

Esan Eczacıbaşı A.Ş.Bodrum · Ortakent · Corporate clients

Konacık science high school project, geotechnical survey

Esan Eczacıbaşı A.Ş.Bodrum · Konacık · Corporate clients

Ortakent hospital and hotel project

Reyap Sağlık GrubuBodrum · Ortakent · Corporate clients

Yahşi hotel project

NG Kütahya Seramik A.Ş.Bodrum · Yahşi · Corporate clients

Bodrum 400-unit housing development, geotechnical survey

Grup Aura (Acrapol)Bodrum · Housing and hotels

Bodrum 200-block development, geotechnical survey

Algüller İnşaat A.Ş.Bodrum · Housing and hotels

Geriş, Bodrum, 149-block development, geotechnical survey

Birleşik A.Ş.Bodrum · Geriş · Housing and hotels

Karakaya 80-block development, geotechnical survey

Vizör Grup A.Ş.Bodrum · Karakaya · Housing and hotels

Kadıkalesi 80-block and hotel project, geotechnical survey

Lavita İnşaat Ltd. Şti.Bodrum · Kadıkalesi · Housing and hotels

Türkbükü 68-block housing project, geotechnical survey

Hebil Bodrum A.Ş.Bodrum · Türkbükü · Housing and hotels

Göktepe planning-stage geological survey

Bodrum BelediyesiBodrum · Göktepe · Public sector and zoning

Bodrum ring road (Torba–Gürece) survey

Akademi Etüt Proje Ltd. Şti. (Ankara)Bodrum · Torba–Gürece · National infrastructure

Neighbourhoods worked in

The neighbourhoods named in the reference list are below, each with the number of jobs there. If Yalıkavak, Gümüşlük, Turgutreis or Bitez are not in the first group, it is not because no work is done there but because that group holds only named references. The service area is the whole of Bodrum.

In the reference list

  • Ortakent3 jobs
  • Yahşi1 job
  • Konacık1 job
  • Göltürkbükü1 job
  • Göl1 job
  • Geriş1 job
  • Karakaya1 job
  • Kadıkalesi1 job
  • Göktepe1 job
  • Torba1 job
  • Gürece1 job

In the same service area

Dereköy, Yalıkavak, Gümüşlük, Turgutreis, Gündoğan, Bitez, Gümbet, Akyarlar, Mumcular, Kızılağaç, Mazı, Çömlekçi, Pınarlıbelen, İslamhaneleri, Yalı, Eskiçeşme, Kumbahçe, Türkkuyusu, Tepecik and Umurca.

How the work runs in Bodrum

  1. Site visit

    You send the location or the block and parcel number and the crew sees the plot in person. The truck's route in and the borehole points are decided that day, and the quote is written for the scope seen there.

  2. Drilling and seismic

    Boreholes are core drilled and a seismic line is run where needed. Every core box is labelled with its borehole and depth.

  3. Laboratory

    Core and soil samples go for testing. The results enter the report in a way that shows which sample each one came from.

  4. Report

    The data report and the geotechnical report are prepared to TBDY 2018 as one file. That file goes to the municipality with your permit application.

Questions specific to Bodrum

My plot is in Yalıkavak or Gümüşlük and those neighbourhoods are not in the reference list. Do you come?
If the plot turns out to be rock, does the drilling programme change?

Core drilling in rock is a different job from advancing through soil, and it appears as its own line in the quote. Full answer

If the drilling truck cannot get down a narrow street, does the job stop?
Questions on price, timing and process

If the plot is in Bodrum, the site visit is close.

Send the location or the block and parcel number. Truck access and the scope of work are checked on site, and the quote comes in writing.