Drilling on Tight Urban Sites Across Toronto and the GTA
A downtown investigation is a different job to a greenfield one. Access, headroom, noise, and utilities all constrain what is possible — and most of that can be worked out before mobilization. Drilling on an open field is straightforward. Drilling in downtown Toronto, in a parking garage, inside an operating building, or in a laneway […]
Drilling Geothermal Boreholes in Ontario: Approvals and Site Realities
Ground source heat pumps are attractive on paper. The part that decides whether a project works is the borehole field — the approvals it needs, the ground it goes into, and the space it takes. Interest in ground source heat pumps in Ontario keeps climbing, driven by electrification targets, energy costs, and the operating economics […]
Ontario’s Excess Soil Rules: What to Sort Out Before You Excavate
Excess soil is no longer something you deal with when the trucks show up. Testing, registration, and a destination all need to be arranged before excavation starts. For a long time, excess soil in Ontario was a logistics problem. You dug it, you found somewhere to put it, and the cost was measured in truck […]
Sonic, Auger, or Mud Rotary: Choosing a Drilling Method for Your Site
The drilling method is not a detail to leave to the contractor. It affects sample quality, how deep you can go, how much soil you generate, and what the job costs. Here is how the main options compare. Most people commissioning a drilling program care about the result — the samples, the well, the borehole […]
What Actually Happens During a Phase Two ESA Drilling Program
A Phase One Environmental Site Assessment is a paper and walk-through exercise. It reviews the history of a property, past uses, aerial photographs, and site records, and it identifies areas of potential environmental concern. What it cannot do is tell you what is actually in the ground. That is the job of the Phase Two […]
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