COMPANY PROFILE

What We Do

GEOINSITE, INC. is a professional consulting firm that specializes in providing safe and sustainable solutions to engineering and environmental problems. GEOINSITE is a California corporation, with Small-Business Enterprise (SBE) certification, that primarily serves the western United States from our office in the San Francisco Bay Area. We offer technical, project management, and quality assurance services in the field of engineering geology, and provide high-quality and state-of-the-art geo-technical expertise to engineering and environmental firms, corporations, public agencies, and utility and energy companies.  We maintain close working relationships with specialty firms and consultants throughout our service area, allowing us to expand our capabilities when needed to satisfy our clients’ objectives. Recent and current projects are located in California, Hawaii, Nevada and Washington.

Who We Are

GEOINSITE is owned and managed by William (Bill) Cole - RESUME. Mr. Cole is licensed as a Professional Geologist (PG/LG), Engineering Geologist (CEG/LEG), and Hydrogeologist (CHG/LHG) in California and other western states. He has more than three decades of professional experience in the investigation, evaluation and mitigation of geologic constraints to civil works, including various forms of earth movement, earthquakes and seismic hazards, water and drainage, and other natural and human-induced problems in a wide variety of environmental settings. He has served in leadership roles for professional organizations, and on Independent Review Boards for jurisdictional agencies, including the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  He recently completed a 2-year term on the Geology Technical Advisory Committee (GeoTAC) to the State of California Board of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists (BPELSG). Mr. Cole has authored more than 40 published articles, abstracts and professional presentations. A summary of selected publications is available at - PUBLICATIONS.