ERI is one of the oldest and most experienced specialist consulting engineering firms in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Established in 1974 (as RGME) ERI grew from a modest site investigation company to a multidisciplinary consulting engineering partnership, catering to discerning clients both in the public and private sectors, and providing services in virtually every corner of the kingdom.
Presently, ERI engineering services include the following disciplines:
Geotechnical Engineering
Structural Engineering
Water Resource Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Infrastructure management and pavement engineering
Infrastructure Management And Pavement Engineering
• Implementation of infrastructure (asset) management system
• Pavement management (maintenance) system (PMS) based on MICROPAER and/or other system; supported by qualified and experienced staff.
• Bridge Inspection and Bridge Management System Implementations.
• Pavement design and evaluation; including the study of the pavement structure behavior to the appropriate new or rehabilitation design strategies.
• Layer thickness/ Materials Optimization.
• Field investigations and materials testing ( asphalt, concrete, aggregate, soils)
• Fields testing ( FWD, GPR….etc.) and inspection services, including automated 2D and 3D line scans and 3D laser collected distresses and/or assets
• Conventional and advanced laboratory testing (asphalt, concrete, aggregate, soils); including SUPERPAVE and high strength concrete mix design
• Quality assurance/quality control testing services, including implementation of QC/QA strategies for laboratory and field testing
• Training and education (Pavement Design, Mixes, Superpave, Pavement Construction, Infrastructure Management, Maintenance)
Environmental Engineering
• Waste management
• Solid waste management system design including collection, transportation, landfill engineering, collection of leechate and gas and their treatment
• Odor, noise and air emission assessment and abatement
• Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
• Design and review of monitoring operations for air and water
• Identification of pollutants and design of remediation and mitigation schemes
• Water quality analysis and testing
• Preparation of baseline studies
• Marine and shoreline environmental studies
• Hydrogeological studies, plume delineation and subsurface characterization of contamination
• Air quality and meteorological studies including stack emission, monitoring dispersion modeling and evaluation of point sources, fugitive emissions, permitting and the design and implementation of air quality monitoring programs
• Emergency planning for accidental release of hazardous materials phase I, II and III environmental site Assessment (ESA)
• Underground storage tanks investigation and remediation
• Laboratory analysis for water and soil, heavy metals, hydrocarbon,
• Volatile and semi- volatile compounds and PCBs.
Geotechnical Engineering
• Geological Surveys, Mapping and Data Interpretation
• Geophysical Surveys including Seismic, Electrical Resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar
• Planning and supervision of exploratory drilling operations, onshore and offshore.
• Assigning laboratory testing schedules for specific soil and rock parameters.
• Engineering analysis and preparation of comprehensive engineering reports for:
– Foundation, including bearing capacities, settlements and structure soil interaction
– Slope stability of soil and rocks for shallow and deep excavations, shoring, anchoring, piling and diaphragm walls.
– Ground improvement using stone columns, jet grouting and dynamic compaction
• Site supervision and verification of foundation excavations and foundation constructions
• Instrumentation and site monitoring of settlements, vibration, lateral displacement and ground water
• Quality assurance of fill placement and field tests.
Structural Engineering
Design and supervision of:
• Structures subjected to lateral loads Complex geometry foundations on variable soil parameters
• Temporary and pre-engineered structures
• Analysis, diagnosis and load testing of concrete elements, sampling and testing of distressed structures, strengthening, rehabilitation and retrofitting.
• Analytical solution of:
– Space frames
– Water retaining concrete structures
– Latticed steel transmission towers
– Chimney stacks
– Concrete and steel silos
– Structures in seismic prone areas
Water Resource Engineering
• Surface water hydrology
• Rainfall data collection and interpretation
• Run off data, measurement hydrographs and estimation of yield
• Climatological data collection and interpretation
• Stream and Wadi flow measurements
• Sedimentation studies
• Water quality studies
• Ground water
• Hydrological evaluation and studies
• Design of wells and well fields
• Acquifer evaluation and recharge
• Geophysical investigation and well logging
• Well rehabilitation schemes
• Ground water quality
• Well inventory and abstraction schemes
• Modeling studies
• Irrigation and drainage
• Design and supervision and irrigation and drainage schemes
• Estimation of irrigation requirements
• Rehabilitation of existing schemes
• Flood protection and water management systems
• Flood control
• Feasibility studies, designs, supervision of dams and reservoirs
• Dam repairs
• Design of dredging program for reservoirs
• Design of silt traps