Geoscience for urban development

The population of London is around seven million. The infrastructure
to support this requires London’s ground conditions to be thoroughly
investigated and understood. Countless boreholes have been drilled for
ground investigation and water supplies. Yet subterranean construction work
in London continues to reveal the presence of ‘anomalous’ ground conditions.
These occurrences have been discovered in isolation, with no further work to
explain them, yet such conditions can prove costly if not predicted by initial
site surveys. Thus there is a need to establish a refined geological framework
for London, within which these ‘anomalies’ can be explained.