Ayal Gait lg ls tks @BAL GL SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION FOR B+G+2 TOWN HOUSES FOR Ms. SHANTI BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS LIMITED ON PLOT NO. JVC12FFRP004, AT AL BARSHA SOUTH FOURTH DUBAI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES REPORT: GSL/352210/17/DXB 27™ AUGUST 2017 Glab@eimaezi ay vi etronir; gal Gayl Tees Zia gh stat! sae P.Oox 31758~ Dubai, UAE, Tel +971 43205383, Fax: #371 4 3208079 ecm: glab@eim.aesae SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY POBox 21758 Dubai, UAE, Tel: +871 4 3208363, 060.8449648, Fax : +074 4 2206272, e-mail: glab@eimae GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION FOR B+G+2 TOWN HOUSES Fi NTI BUILDERS & DEVELOPER: ON PLOT NO. JVC12FFRPO04, AT AL BARSHA SOUTH FOURTH DUBAI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES REPORT: GSL/352210/17/DXB 27" AUGUST 2017 REPORT ISSUE STATUS <01> [27-Aug-2017 | Final Engineering Report Description Prepared | Checked | Approved M/S. SHANTI BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS LIMITED GLOBAL S. |. LABORATORY P.O. BOX P.O. BOX 31758 DUBAI DUBAI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED ARAB EMIRATES + This report relates enly o the points tested, + This report shall notbe reproduced except in full without the weten permission of Giebal Laboratory. + Recommendations are not included inthe scope of accretion easter Raper GSLBSaA TONSWs SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 31758 ~ Dubai, UA E, Tol : +071 4 3205363, 050-8449649, Fax: +971 4 9205373, e-mail : glab@eim.ac Mis. Shanti Builders & Developers Limited P.O, Box Dubai, UAE. Ref: GSLI3622/17/0XB 27" August, 2017 Dear Sir, GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION FOR B+G+2 TOWN HOUSES FOR Mis. SHANTI BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS LIMITED ON PLOT NO. JVC12FFRP004, AT AL BARSHA SOUTH FOURTH DUBAI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES We have pleasure in enclosing herewith four copies of our report, for carrying out the work on the above project. ‘Should you have any queries with regard to our report, please do not hesitate to contact ue, Please note that soil samples related to this project will be retained at our storage facilty for 1 calendar month, witout charge, from the date ofthis final report, before disposal. Should you wish to extend the storage period, please contact us before the intended disposal date. We are pleased to nave been of service on this occasion, and lock forward to further co-operation on future projects. Yours faithfully, GLOBAL SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY Abdul ReZak Narayanat General Manager Report, GSUSS22/17/0XB‘oh Aol Gadd flay ls ike ie SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 31758 ~ Scout UAE, Tel : +971 42205869, 050-0449649, Fax: +971 4 9205373, e-mail: glab@eimae GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION }+G+2 TOWN HOUSE! FOR M/s. SHANTI BUILDERS & DEVELOPERS LIMITED ON PLOT NO. JVG12FFRPO04, AT AL HA SOUTH FOURTH DUBAI - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. CONTENTS PAGE ‘SUMMARY i 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 20 SITE DESCRIPTION 1 3.0 LOCAL GEOLOGY 1 40 FIELDWORK 4 5.0 LABORATORY TESTING 5 6.0 SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS 6 7.0 ENGINEERING DISCUSSION & RECOMMENDATIONS 6 8.0 REPORT LIMITATIONS 10 PLATES PLATE 1 LOCALITY PLAN PLATE 2 SITE PLAN PLATE 3 SPT “N" VALUES VS DEPTH APPENDICES, APPENDIX A FIELD RESULTS APPENDIX B LABORATORY TEST RESULTS APPENDIX C APPENDICES TO SITE INVESTIGATION REPORTS Report. GSLSS2/77/0K8egy SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 31758 - Dubai, UA E, Tel : +971 43205363, 050-8449549, Fax : +971 4 3205373, e-mail : glab@eim.ae SUMMARY A site investigation, comprising three (2) borenoles and supplementary field testing, was performed on Plot no: JVC12FFRPOO4, at Al Barsha South Fourth, Dubal for the proposed construction of B+G+2 Town Houses. Fieldwork for the investigation was undertaken between 19th and 2st August 2017. A subsequent programme of latoratory testing was performed on representative soil samoles recovered from the site. ‘The subsurface conditions encountered are considered suitable for conventional shallow foundations and allewable bearing pressures for conventional strip/pad and raft type of foundations have been given ‘The corrosive potential of the si sulphate class recommendations, jas also been considered with respect to appropriate concrete design During the period of site works groundwater was encountered at the depth between &.m and 5.6m below to the existing ground level. It should be noted that ground water level is affected by seasonal and tidal changes as well as dewatering in the vicinity (If Any) Report GSUSSZI71DKE Paget| 2 A Fl Gaal Jy ls pike 1a SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY 1.0 2.0 3.0 .0.B0x 31758 ~ Dubal, UA E, Tel : +971 4 3205363, 050-8449549, Fax: +974 4 3205373, e-mail: glab@eim.2e INTRODUCTION Global Soll Investigation Laboratory (GSL) was commissioned by M/s. Falcon Survey to perform a geotechnical site investigation, and provide geotechnical consutting services, for the proposed ‘construction of B+G+2 Town Houses for Mis. Shanti Builders & Developers Limited, on Plot No. JVC12FFRPOO4, at Al Barsha South Fourth, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The work has been performed in general accordance with British Standard BS 5990; 1999, “Code of practice for Site Investigations’. The site location is indicated on locality plan, Plate ‘. Field test locations, relative to the proposed ste layout, and existing site features, are indicated in the site plan, Plate 2. Field work for the investigation was performed between 1Sth and 21st August 2017. The factual feld and isboratory date, together with ‘appropriate engineering interpretation and discussion of results, are presented herein. THE SITE DESCRIPTION The site is located at Plot No. JVC12FFRPCO4, at Al Barsha South Fourth, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. All four sides of the plot were bounded by roads. At the time of investigation, the plot wes open, undeveloped end the surface was slightly undulated, GEOLOGICAL HISTORY / REGIONAL GEOLOGY 3.1 Geologic History Geologically the UAE occupies a corner of the Arabien Platform, a body continental rock that has remained relatively stable since the Cambrian Period more than 500 million years ago. From a geological standpoint, the Arabian Platiorm encompasses not only present day Arabia but also the shallow Arabien Gulf (which is not true ocean basin) and the rocks of the coastal Zagros Mountains of tran. For most of its history, the Arabian Platform has been part of the larger Afro-Arabian Continent, and the two have behaved as a unit in response to plate tectonic movements. Only about 25 million years ago, with the initial opening of the Red Sea, did Arabia begin to separate from the African plate. Movement of the Afro-Arabian plate during the Palaeozoic twice caused Arabia to pass near the South Pole (in the Ordovician and Carboniferous), and the UAE may have become glaciated. Since the end of the Palaeozoic, however, the UAE has remained in tropical or subtropical latitudes. Moreover, despite its travels, this area appears to have remained tectonically relatively stable, and the geologic history of tha UAE has therefore been primarily a history of the advence and retreat of the sea Report GSUSS22/77/0KE Page 1fai B A Fpl) Gail Jyyls pide ee SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 31756 ~ Dubai, UA E, Tel : +971 4 3205363, 050-8449549, Fax: +971 4 3205373, e-mail : glab@eim.ao 3.2 Ancient Sediments Over time, sediments accumulated on the coast and continental shelf that was to become the UAE. Limited pre-Permian exposures in the UAE reveal fine-grained, shallow water ‘errigenous (silts and shales), These were probably relatively thin overall and may have been largely removed by intermittent emergence and ercsion. Later, in the tropical Mesozoic seas, thick sequences of carbonate rocks, Limestone (CaCOs) and delomites (CaMg(CO;)2) were deposited. The late Permian and Mesozoic seas of the UAE were part of an ocean that opened north of Arabia during that time, separating the Afro- Arabian continent from the Eurasian continent. This paleeo-ocean is known to geologists as Tethys and at one time it extended westward to the present-day Mediterranean countries and eastward to the Himalayas. Fossilferous imestene and dolomites of Jurassic to late Cretaceous age (¢. 210 to ¢. 85 million years ego) are the rocks in which the UAE's abundant oil reserves are typically found, Some of these rocks represent depositional environments very much like today’s Arabian Gulf shores, but they are now buried at depths of approximately 2,400m to 7,000m. in particular, the lower part of the Mesozoic sequence includes sabkha deposits indicative of restricted ocean circulation. 3.3 Vertical movement, salt domes and mountains ‘The land emerged above sea level at various times throughout the earlier Mesozoic and Tertiary depositional history, but in the form of low lying land-masses, as occur today. These periods, when the sea did not cover the land, are evidenced by occasional breaks in the sedimentary record (formed by sand and muc being deposited on the sea-bed) and by sedimentary features indicating surface erosion, such as development of palaco-sclls Since the mid-Cretaceous (c. 100 million years ago), local topograohic highs (and major structural traps for petroleum) have been created by sait domes rising from thick Cambrian salt deposits that underlie. many areas of the southern Arabian Guff at depths of more than 6,000m. Today, these salt domes are. responsible for certain coastal hills, such as Jebel Dhane and Jebel Al, and many of the UAE's offshore irku and Sir Abu Nu alr. islands, such es Sir Bani Yes, Das, Earth movements driven by plate tectonics caused the ocean floor of the deep ocean then lying to the north-east to be forced over the edge of the Arabian Platform and its cover of shallow water sediments. This process created a structure of massive superposed sheets (called ‘nappes') of diverse rock types that now appear to have been shuffled, like cards on the grand scale. This created the Hajar Mountains, which possess the worid's finest end most extenswe surface exposure of rocks from the oceanic crust. Their present height and rugged topogrephy is a product of renewed uplift and erosion cue to regional forces commencing at the end of the Oligocene (c. 25 million years ago) and continuing to the present Report GSLSS22 77/06 : Page 2LBA Aad Gad Jlagts pias "Wey SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 31758 - Dubai, UA E, Tel : +971 4 3205363, 050-8449549, Fax: +974 4 3206373, o-mail: glab@eim.ae Gedlogically recent events such as Ple'stecene touches on the present day geology of the UAE as a whole. 3.4 The Desert ‘Most of the surface of the present day UAE is as sand desert, stretching from the Arabian Gulf coast south to the unbroken and uninhabited sands of the Empty Quarter and east to the gravel plains orcering the Hajar Mountains. The desert is a geologically recent feature, the result of prolonged sud- erial erosion and deposition in an arid environment. The sands overlie the thick, oil-rich sedimentary strata of the Arabian Platform, which constitutes the bedrock of most of the UAE, but the oll producing rocks are nownere expcsed at the surface, and are known only from driling, |n many areas near the coset, the cand is stabilized by vegetation, the natural flors has been altered in recent times by extensive grazing of comestcated animals. Further inland the sands may be quite barren, as few plants can successfully colonize the mobile dunes. 3.5 Dune Patterns Dune fermation is controlled by a combination of wind strength and direction, and sediment supply. in detail, however, the formation of dune paterns 1s complex and remains poorly understood, Within a given area the dune pattern may be quite regular, but also very intricate. Physical features are typically created on several different scales: giant sand ridges on a scale of hundreds of metres to a few kilometers, sand dunes measured in metres to tens of metres, and ripples on a scale of centimetres toa metre or more, This hierarchy can be readily observed in the deserts of the UAE. Since dune patterns vary with wind direction, seasonal or occasional variations in wind direction introduce new elements into the overall pattern. These elements may reinforce or cancel each other, in the same manner as ocean waves. In addition, because sand dunes cannot move or change as quickly as ocean waves. past hisiory may play 2 significant part in what we see todsy. Despite rolatively consistent prevalling wind directions in the present day UAE, dune patterns and alignment vary considerably from area to area 3.6 Sabkha Environments Sabkha is the Arabic term for lew-lying salina flats subject to periodic inundation, Three types are recognized, besed on their environment of formation. All are found in the UAE. Coastal sabkha, as the name implies, form at or near the marine shoreline. Fluvio-lacustrine (le. river-leke) sabkha is formed in association with riverine drainage patterns in ard aregs. Inland or interdune sabkha is found in low lying basins within the sand desert Report GSUSS22/77/0K8 Page 3 eaaeeT44 Report: GSLSE220°7/0X6 SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 31758 ~ Dubai, UA E, Tel : +971 4 3205363, 050-8449549, Fay +4974 4 3205373, e.mail : glab@eim.2e All sabkhas share certain characteristics. Although they are restricted to hot, arid regions, the sabkha surface is always very close to the local water table, usually within about a metre. Groundwater is drawn towards the surface by capillary action and evaporates in the upper subsurface response to the high temperatures. There it deposits dissolved salts, including calcium carbonate, gypsum (CaSO,-2H,0), anhydrite (CaSO,) or sodium chloride or halite (NaCI), which precipitate in that order, these salts create @ hard, impermeable crust in a zone about helf @ metre below the surface, This crust, along with high salinity, discourages all plant growth. The crust also impedes the drainage of surface water, so that after rains the sabkhas flood, The surface water then evaporates over time, often leaving behind a dazzling white crust of salt FIELDWORK A programme of subsurface investigation, performed at the site between 19th and 21st August 2017 includes the following + Exploratory boreholes with: + Regular split'spoon sampling during Standard Penetration Tests (SPT) in soils + Disturbed bulk soil sampling from cable percussion drill cuttings ‘The geotechnical investigation works were performed in general accordance with the British Standard BS 5930: "Code of practice for site investigations” Field test results and observations are presented in Appendix A. The presentation of field results is Preceded by summarised explanations of boreholes, log, symbols and classification system, and a summary of soil and rock strength definitions, on Plates A1.7 toA1.3, and A2 respectively. Exploratory Boreholes ‘The borehole locations were set out in accordance with the instructions of the Client's Representative and 's shown on the site plan presented as Plate 2. A total of three (3) boreholes were completed to a proposed depth of 20.0 metres below existing ground level. Dring was performed using a trailer mourted Picon drilling rig. The boreholes were advanced through seil deposits, including variably cemented sands, using standard cable percussion boring ‘equipment ang techniques ‘Standard Penetration Tests (SPTs) were conducted at regular intervals within the soil layers in order to estimate the relative densities and obtain samples for classification purposes. Test intervals within were. generally 0.5m to driling depths of 2.6m, and 1.0m thereafter, Page 4"9 SOIL INVESTIGATION LABORATORY P.0.Box 91768 ~ Dubai, UA E, Tel : +971 4 3205969, 050-8449549, Fax: +971 4 3205373, e-mail: glab@eim.ae 50 54 ‘SPTs were conducted in accordance with the relevant British Standard (BS 1377- Part ¢); "Methods of test for soils for civil engineering purposes’, The test involves driving a 50mm extemal diameter thick walled split spoon sampler into the bottom of the borehole with successive blows of a 63.5kg hammer falling freely through 760mm. The sampler is driven through 6 intervals of 75mm and the number of blows required to penetrate each interval is recorded. The initial 180mm interval is intended to ensure ‘seating’ of the sampler such that it penetrates beyond the zone of influence of any soil disturbance at the base of the borehole. The aggregate number of blows to crive the sampler over the final 300mm is termed the “N’ value, and is considered indicative of the in-situ relative soll density. In very dense and/ or cemented soil layers it is often not possible to ensure complete penetration of the SPT sampier, due to driving refusal, or the risk of damage to sampling equipment as a result of hard driving. The practical driving limit is of the order of 50 blows for a penetration of 300mm. Where a Penetration of 300mm was net achieved, cue to the density or degree of cementation of the deposits encountered, the number of blows and distance driven are recorded on the Borehole Logs. A plot of SPT “N’ values versus depth is presented on plate 3, Careful attention was paid weather the groundwater teble is present in the boreholes. Water was added to assist cable percussive boring and to stabilize each hole during insitu testing Disturbed SPT and bulk scil samples collected during crilling were retained in sealed, labelled plastic bags. All samples were transported to the Global Soil Investigation Laboratory in Dubai for detailed logging and semele processing. Representative samples were selected for laborstory testing to assist with sample descriptions and determination of engineering properties. Individual borehole logs are presented in Appendix A, Plates A3.1.1 to A3.3.2 LABORATORY TESTING A programme of laboratory testing was performed on selected samples of soil obtained during the fieldwork. Test results have been used to assist with the classification and determination of relevant physical properties of soll semples. Chemical test results have been used to determine the corrosivity of Soil In general, laboratory testing has been performed in accordance with British Standard procedures. Laboratory test results are presented in Appendix B. Particle Size Dist uti The particle size distribution was determined for a total of six (6) soll samples in accordance with the wet sieving method described in BS 1377:Part2. Compliance with the standard, with respect to minimum Repon. GSL/9522/17/0XB Page S