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Diatomite Mining – A Forgotten Skye Industry
We visited the historic diatomite mining site in Northern Skye. Click ‘Read more’ to read our thoughts on how the impact of this industry can still be seen today.
Meet the team!
Meet the team behind RI Geotechnics.
Our team will work with you, offering expert advice to assist with your projects. As a client centric consultancy, we take pride in our personable approach, and we would like to introduce the team behind RI Geotechnics:
Ann and Richard Izatt-Lowry.
Thoughts on: Northern Skye - Beautiful but problematic in equal measures.
It makes a refreshing change for me to have the opportunity to see and work with such a huge variety of rock types. As is often the case in the Civil Engineering industry, bedrock is generally obscured by thick drift deposits, but the Isle of Skye features many different rock types exposed in such dramatic landforms. These impressive landforms nevertheless can present complex engineering challenges.
Scotland, we can do this!
The Scottish Government has outlined how businesses should begin to return to work over the last few weeks and in particular, the construction industry was granted a soft start as of the 11th of June. A recent survey from the Federation of Master builders found that Scottish builders suffered the greatest decrease in workload of all the home nations.