Flexible engagement
We add specialist capacity to your existing team, or take on a defined scope and deliver it independently.
Specialist geotechnical engineering and technical advisory
for energy and infrastructure
built on decades of global project experience
advanced through applied research and innovation
Our sectors
Specialist expertise across energy and infrastructure.
Explore a sector to see how Ground Horizon can support your project.
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Building & infrastructure
Core ground engineering for foundations, excavations and slopes.
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Tunnels & underground structures
Independent review, assessment and life-extension for tunnels and underground assets.
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Offshore wind
Geotechnical and foundation expertise across the offshore wind lifecycle.
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Ports & waterfront structures
Value engineering and specialist analysis for quay walls and waterfront structures.
About us
Who we are.
Ground Horizon is a specialist geotechnical engineering consultancy based in Ireland, working across the energy and infrastructure sectors — with deep experience in offshore wind, ports and harbours, tunnels and underground structures.
We help developers, consultancies, contractors and asset owners solve the ground-engineering challenges that drive project risk.
Our work spans
- Site investigation and ground modelling
- Foundation and geotechnical design
- Constructability and installation analysis
- Independent design review
- Forensic and expert-witness support
Expertise
Our team were instrumental in the development of design standards — including PISA methodology for offshore monopiles and the ISO Unified method for axially loaded piles. We understand their assumptions and limits, and apply that judgement where projects move beyond established practice, allowing safe and cost-effective designs.
Our team
Meet the directors.
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Prof. Ken Gavin brings internationally recognised expertise in offshore foundations, pile design, full-scale testing and research-led design methodology, built over a 30-year career spanning academia and practice. As a principal investigator of the PISA design methodology for laterally loaded monopiles and co-author of the unified ISO method for axially loaded piles, his work is now standard practice for designers worldwide. He is among the most highly cited researchers in offshore foundations, and has provided consulting services for major offshore wind developments with combined installed capacity exceeding 20 GW across Europe and the APAC region.
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Dr Soroosh Jalilvand is an offshore wind technical leader with over 13 years of combined academic and industry experience and a background spanning structural and geotechnical engineering. He has led multidisciplinary design and advisory teams across international offshore wind markets — taking projects from early site characterisation and foundation concept design, through FEED, detailed design and independent review, in lead designer and owner's engineer roles. His experience spans WTG and offshore-substation foundations across both fixed and floating concepts, delivered for developers, transmission operators, and EPCI contractors in Ireland, Europe, the UK, Japan, Taiwan and the USA.
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Contact us
Get in touch.
We look forward to connecting with clients and partners to explore collaboration opportunities.