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The EARTHWORKS Group Inc. (EARTHWORKS) is a multi-discipline turnkey consulting firm established in 1996 that provides Civil, Environmental, MEP and Structural Engineering, Architectural, and Construction Management Services for public and private sector clients, including local governments. Our home office is located in Murrells Inlet, SC.
Building infrastructure that creates value long after the project is complete.
At Soil Solutions, we have learned that successful infrastructure is about more than what we build. It is about the people who depend on it, the resources required to maintain it, and the value it continues to deliver over its lifetime.
We work with clients around the world to solve real infrastructure challenges across mining, aviation, agriculture, renewable energy, conservation, oil and gas, and remote communities.
Our approach begins with the problem, not the product.
Every environment is different, so we look at the materials available, operating conditions, climate, traffic, maintenance requirements and the people affected before developing a project-specific solution.
Our focus is lifecycle value: creating infrastructure that performs for longer while reducing maintenance, dust, water consumption, resource use and environmental impact.
Our experience includes:
• Mine haul and access roads
• Gravel and unpaved roads
• Airstrips and runways
• Renewable energy infrastructure
• Asphalt rehabilitation and recycling
• National parks and conservation areas
• Sand stabilisation
• Agricultural infrastructure
• Military applications
• Oil and gas infrastructure
Our engineering capabilities include EBS and advanced soil stabilisation, surface sealing, dust control and in-place rehabilitation technologies. But technology is only part of the story.
What matters is what that technology makes possible: safer access, more reliable operations, reduced resource consumption, stronger connections and infrastructure that continues creating value for the people and organisations that depend on it.
We have worked in challenging environments around the world, and every project continues to teach us something.
Better infrastructure. Fewer resources. Longer-term value. Positive impact.