AquaSoli LLC specializes in solar geotechnical foundation design and evaluation. Since 2003, AquaSoli has completed 10 gigawatts of industry defining work and established standards for foundation design and acceptance testing. Foundation and related design elements support up to 60% of a project’s value, yet current practice distributes accountability and offers little incentive for reliable and efficient foundation design. The cost and time pressures inherent in PV projects often interfere with deploying proven reliable foundation technologies.
Services:
Developers, EPCs and Investors can vet sites faster and more accurately with AquaSoli’s Pre-Site Assessment Services and support purchase negotiations with our Permit-Ready Site Assessment Services.
AquaSoli combines geotech, load testing, foundation design and installation QAQC to ensure accountability and reduce risk with our Integrated Solar Ground Component Management. With our service, developers and EPCs can establish sole source responsibility for geotech, foundations and project coordination to optimize performance and reduce failure risk, and receive specific recommendations for project-enhancing design decisions.
Owners, investors, and insurers can reduce exposure to foundation failure risk or implement cost effective failure abatement with AquaSoli’s PV Foundation Risk Abatement Services. Our risk assessment and mitigation strategies can save thousands on the dollar over failure remediation. We can screen a single PV facility or an entire portfolio for hidden liability.
Owners, investors, and insurers can reduce exposure to foundation failure risk or implement cost effective failure abatement. Aquasoli’s risk assessment and mitigation strategies can save thousands on the dollar over failure remediation. We can screen a single PV facility or an entire portfolio for hidden liability.
The cost and time pressures inherent in PV projects often interfere with deploying proven reliable foundation technologies. Geotechnical consultants with deep and solar specific experience are rare. Consequently ground mount PV projects and facilities can hide latent foundation failure risk. The cost of remediating foundation failure is many times the cost of risk assessment and abatement: millions versus thousands of dollars.
To secure profit and long-term reliability, our phased approach starts with risk screening and ends at the abatement level required for satisfactory mitigation. This approach optimizes risk reduction for each dollar spent...
Developers and EPCs can establish sole source responsibility for geotech, foundations and project coordination to optimize performance and reduce failure risk.
AquaSoli combines geotech, load testing, foundation design and installation QAQC into an accountable project deliverable. Our comprehensive site analysis results in specific recommendations that will help EPCs make project-enhancing design decisions.
The Ground Component consists of the interrelated elements that effect foundation performance and cost:
• Geotech, load testing, foundation design and installation QAQC
• Rack selection and layout
• Civil/site design and grading
• Storm water management and O&M
Optimizing this Ground Component minimizes foundation failure risk and drives project profit and performance.
Developers, EPCs and Investors can vet sites faster and more accurately with AquaSoli’s Pre-Site Assessment Services and support purchase negotiations with our Permit-Ready Site Assessment Services. We reduce risk by assessing development potential from the ground up.
Pre-Site Assessment
Fast and accurate pre-site assessment vetting reduces investment risk and project development costs by aiding early go/no go decisions. Starting with just an address, AquaSoli analyzes remote site data and provides first order foundation, layout and site designs with estimates for production capacity and development costs.
Permit-Ready Site Assessment
Third party review of permit-ready sites characterizes investment value. Existing design studies are evaluated and pertinent data is leveraged to prepare independent conceptual design and estimates. Quantified findings are used to verify vendor claims.
Inadequate site assessments can lead to overengineered and unnecessarily expensive foundations. Worse, they can lead to costly foundation failures. Reprint from SolarPro Magazine May/June 2015. More »
Geotechnical Analysis and PV Foundation Design
November 23, 2015 6:58pm
Vice President
