Site & Soil Intelligence

Site & Soil Intelligence brings a project location, what is known about the ground beneath it, and the geotechnical documents behind that knowledge into one place. It exists to help a professional ask better questions before a foundation is chosen, and to keep screening information clearly separated from verified site investigation.

What the tool does

• Location: place a site on the map, search an address, and attach the location to a saved project with its coordinates.
• Soil classification: clay, sandy, silty, lateritic, gravel, rocky, organic, peat, waterlogged, reclaimed land and mixed conditions, each with its engineering implications.
• Screening: elevation and terrain slope derived from a terrain model, straight-line coastal distance from a coastline reference, and regional statements on groundwater, drainage, flood exposure and erosion where a published source exists.
• Scenario comparison: excavation, concrete, reinforcement, formwork, dewatering allowances and ground improvement quantities and costs for strip, pad, raft, pile and ground improvement options, using the FRELUX Material Price Index for material prices.
• Reports: upload soil investigation reports, borehole logs, laboratory results, bearing capacity and groundwater reports, which a reviewer can verify.

What it refuses to do

Soil classification is descriptive and carries no strength value. Screening values come from terrain models and regional sources; they cannot identify the soil on a site, establish a bearing capacity, or demonstrate that a foundation is safe. A scenario runs only on a bearing capacity the user enters or a reviewer verifies, and no foundation type is prescribed from a city, a neighbourhood or a map coordinate. No bearing capacity is ever estimated by FRELUX.

Verification and professional review

Uploaded reports stay unverified until an administrator or a qualified professional confirms them, and that decision is recorded against the report. Preliminary assessments are labelled as such throughout. Geotechnical interpretation and structural design require review by qualified, licensed professionals in the project country; the tool does not produce construction-ready structural designs.

Related tools: the Foundation Calculator, the Material Price Index behind the cost lines, and the Climate-Responsive Material Advisor for the exposure side of the same site.

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