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Geovert Geovert is a world leader in Natural Hazard Mitigation and Mining Ground Support solutions.

Geovert are renowned for delivering complex projects safely in any environment, operating ground engineering and asset integrity maintenance businesses.

Wellington sits directly on one of the most active fault lines in New Zealand and with about 20% of the city's earthquak...
14/06/2026

Wellington sits directly on one of the most active fault lines in New Zealand and with about 20% of the city's earthquake-prone buildings heritage-listed, it means they need to be brought up to modern seismic standards without compromising the fabric that makes them worth protecting in the first place.

Working with Sierra Delta Civil at Wellington High School, Geovert provided deadman anchoring for the seismic upgrade of a heritage wall. Hollow bar anchors were drilled through small cored openings in the brickwork and fixed to the piles below. We used our T48 crawler rig within the road closure and laser placement for the absolute drilling accuracy needed to achieve a successful upgrade. Excellent work from our NZ team and we look forward to working with our partners on similar projects in the future.

Some sites raise the bar by just existing and the Hoover Dam is definitely one of them. Built during the Great Depressio...
09/06/2026

Some sites raise the bar by just existing and the Hoover Dam is definitely one of them. Built during the Great Depression and completed in 1936, it stands 221 metres above the Black Canyon of the Colorado River and continues to generate power and deliver water across the south-western United States ninety years later.

Since 2019, our North American team has been managing rockfall hazards on the same volcanic rock faces that had to be cleared by rope-suspended ‘high scalers’ before the dam could even be built. As both an active hydro-electric power plant and iconic tourist attraction receiving 1 million visitors a year, the emphasis on safety is obvious.

The Bureau of Reclamation formally rated our safety performance as ‘Exceptional’ and noted it had set a benchmark for industry standards. We've written about the history of the site, what the work involves and what the Bureau's recognition reflects about how our team operates.

Read the full article on the Geovert website.
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04/06/2026

Expanding the building footprint at a commercial development site required cutting back an existing slope in Wellington's fractured greywacke. We installed a flexible mesh system with tensioned rock anchors as an alternative to the shotcrete facing commonly used in the area, allowing for natural movement during seismic events while enabling drainage and vegetation growth.

Our High Reach Drill (HRD) eliminated the need for benched excavation, accelerating the earthworks programme and allowing the development to progress ahead of schedule. The HRD also enabled us to keep crews safely out of the rockfall zone when the newly cut face proved more friable than anticipated.

The HRD has proven equally at home on civil and infrastructure projects as it has on mine sites - wherever height or access conditions make the exceptional reach of this machine safer and more efficient.

Geobrugg

A multiple bench scale instability at an iron ore site in Western Australia left high-grade ore inaccessible beneath uns...
26/05/2026

A multiple bench scale instability at an iron ore site in Western Australia left high-grade ore inaccessible beneath unstable ground. Blasting or heavy machinery vibrations risked further movement. The operator required a stabilisation method that restored safe access without exposing personnel to the unstable highwall during construction.

Traditional ground-based equipment could not operate safely on the steep slope, and constructing barriers mid-slope would have placed workers beneath known unstable ground. Instead, a top-down installation using rope access and lightweight drilling equipment enabled crews to work directly on the slope face while minimising exposure.

We installed approximately 6,000m² of high-tensile mesh, secured with almost 500 rock bolt anchors across the affected slope. The anchored mesh system was designed to control surficial instability by transferring forces from unstable rock through the mesh and spike plates into stable ground behind the instability zone. TDR monitoring cables were installed to track ongoing deformation.

The proof that the installed system was effective arrived after construction, when a large boulder, about 3.5m long and weighing roughly 12 tonnes was released from the slope. The mesh system held the material back without any significant damage, providing practical confirmation that the mesh, anchors and spike plate system were capable and importantly, it did not impact mining operations below.

Read the full project story on the Geovert website in our 'What Good Looks Like' article series.

Over two hundred Erdox avalanche barriers - protecting the residential community at White Pine Canyon, Park City - had s...
19/05/2026

Over two hundred Erdox avalanche barriers - protecting the residential community at White Pine Canyon, Park City - had sustained enough deformation from a previous season's snowpack that they needed to be removed from the slope entirely. With no road access, all equipment and materials had to be moved by helicopter. Each barrier was carried to a staging area, rebuilt with new stems, sockets and components, and then airlifted back to its original anchor point on the mountain.

The operation was dependent on available weather windows but the full system was restored and back at capacity, protecting the residents below, before the following winter season. A great effort from the crew working in a demanding alpine environment.

A wet winter in New Zealand destabilised a road reserve slope in a residential suburb of Wellington, resulting in a land...
10/05/2026

A wet winter in New Zealand destabilised a road reserve slope in a residential suburb of Wellington, resulting in a landslide that undercut a private property above and threatened the road below. Wellington City Council contracted Geovert to stabilise it.

A services scan at the crest of the slope revealed a dense network of underground utilities that ruled out rope access in the area where the shotcrete had to be applied. Geovert and consulting engineers ENGEO worked through the problem and arrived at a bespoke scaffold system designed to sit above a live road, within a narrow corridor and accommodate a slope face that changed geometry with each drop down. Three drilling methods ran in combination - wagon drills at the top, a scaffold-mounted drill mast for the inaccessible section and an excavator-mounted drill mast with a custom boom extension working from the base.

Asbestos contamination in the debris created further issues that needed additional crew certification and environmental controls before clearing could continue.

The project was completed successfully with Wellington City Council confirming they were looking forward to working with Geovert again. This project was recognised with a finalist nomination at the Civil Contractors New Zealand Awards 2025. Brilliant collaborative and problem-solving work from the team.

07/05/2026

This snapshot of the Geovert Spider's travels covers soil nail drilling on an infrastructure project in New Zealand, emergency slope stabilisation and riverbed clearance in Far North Queensland, depressurisation drilling at a mine in Australia, and rockfall protection works in the US. Different projects with different terrain and in different countries, but at each site the conditions excluded the use of conventional excavators and the Geovert Spider went in instead.

06/05/2026

Awesome work from the Geovert NZ team protecting road users on SH2. 👏

The Geovert team have just returned from a well-spent week in Queenstown for the LaRGE 2026 international workshop on la...
03/05/2026

The Geovert team have just returned from a well-spent week in Queenstown for the LaRGE 2026 international workshop on landslide risk assessment, management and communication.

Francis Main's presentation on Friday drew a well-attended and engaged audience and his paper, ‘Construction Excellence in Extreme Conditions: A Contractor's Perspective on the Diana Falls Rockfall Protection System’ sparked genuine discussion, with the contractor's perspective on complex geotechnical delivery clearly resonating with other delegates. It's a viewpoint that doesn't always get airtime at events, and the reception he received reflected that.

The conference itself was a reminder of how much collective expertise exists across this field with discussions around geotechnical hazards, slope stabilisation and real-world project challenges that were thoughtful and wide-ranging, and the theme of collaboration across clients, designers and contractors ran through much of the week.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by for a chat with both Francis and Sean McNamara at the Geovert booth!

When cobbles and boulders broke loose from steep slopes above the Seminoe Dam spillway in Wyoming, they blocked the righ...
28/04/2026

When cobbles and boulders broke loose from steep slopes above the Seminoe Dam spillway in Wyoming, they blocked the right abutment access road and exposed the slope to further instability.

Geovert worked closely with dam operators and consulting geologists to develop a stabilisation approach suited to the site conditions. The Seminoe granite was heavily fractured, making individual blocks easy to dislodge, and freeze-thaw cycling and snowfall loading added to the instability of already oversteepened faces.

Rock bolts were installed to anchor loose rock masses and with limited ground access, helicopters transported high-tensile Geobrugg rockfall mesh from a staging area while rope access crews caught and secured each panel to pre-installed crest bolts. We successfully restored safe access to the spillway inlet gate and provided long-term protection against future rockfall. Nice work Team US!

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