Introduction
Geotechnical Investigation (GI) is seldom considered important in civil engineering projects by the stakeholders, structural consultants, or architects, primarily because of their ignorance of the subject. The common practice is to save a tiny fraction of the project cost required for investigation, but in doing so, they inadvertently suffer huge time and cost overruns, often leading to national losses. At times, there is a lack of transparency in the working, where incorrect project reports or wrong designs result due to insufficient, incorrect or dishonest data, or due to facts not reported to the project owner.
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