Geobear is a global ground engineering specialist and contractor who provides unintrusive ground engineering solutions. With over 40 years of experience and over 200,000 completed projects,* Geobear is a global leader in soil stabilisation, void-filling, floor and slab revelling, slab stabilisation, and other ground improvement solutions caused by various geological conditions such as soil and clay shrinkage and expansion, resulting in subsidence and settlement.
Geobear serves customers across the residential, commercial, and infrastructure sectors with a more sustainable built asset stabilisation solution when compared to traditional technologies such as underpinning.
Geobear is a private company headquartered in Finland. Our Finnish roots provide us with strong respect and appreciation for the environment and a culture of repairing and reusing. Our solutions help save resources and increase the usable life of built assets, making a positive contribution towards decarbonisation.
How? We inject a polymer into the ground that’s become unstable. It lifts buildings, fixes cracked concrete and uneven floors, and makes the ground stronger. We are 10 times faster than the normal way to repair subsidence, which involves building work and often closing the business or moving out of your house. That’s not the case with Geobear. The work is finished in hours or days, rather than weeks or months and comes with a guarantee.
At a department store in Finland, the shop floor was starting to look like a potato field. The carts were rolling away from customers who struggled to fill them with purchases and make it to checkout. Business was suffering as more customers complained. The shop manager wanted to fix the problem without shutting down the business, so he called Veikko Hakkinen.
Veikko had invented a way to replace cement and grout with a polymer, which raised floors quickly and easily without the need for rebuilding. This was exactly what the shop manager was looking for. Confident he’d found a solution to a serious problem, Veikko patented his invention in 1983.
Timo Lahtinen became the head of the business in 1987, expanding into over 50 countries in the next 22 years. Operating under our original name, the company completed over 100,000 projects, created licensing deals with more than 30 companies, created new techniques, and got more patents.
When Timo retired in 2012, there were several companies using resin injection for ground improvement. Timo’s plan to become the market leader involved shifting from licensing into a ground improvement contracting business. Once the contracting business was off the ground in Finland, Timo started the process in the UK.
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We deliver projects on any sort of building or structure – from residential properties, conservatory extension to problems to 80,000m2 warehouses and road infrastructure. In most cases we will have the best solution, so get in touch today.
