Geo-Environment Suitability Evaluation for Urban Construction in Rongcheng District of Xiong’an New Area, China

Xiong’an New Area is a national event and a project planned for a millennium of China. Its high-quality construction is of great significance to easing the noncapital functions of Beijing and the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. As an emerging city, the development and construction of Xiong’an New Area is bound to be restricted by geological and resource conditions. Therefore, geo-environment suitability analysis is the necessary basis of urban development and construction. Geo-environment suitability analysis of urban construction is a complex process that requires various geological indicator information, and relevant expertise to analyze their relevance. This paper focuses on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for the assessment of geo-environment suitability for urban construction in Rongcheng district, which is a Start Construction Region in Xiong’an New Area. Multiple factors, including the characteristic value of bearing capacity of foundation soil, land subsidence rate, geological faults, ground fissures, potential liquefied sands, quality of groundwater chemistry, quality of soil chemistry, chemical corrosion of concrete by groundwater, chemical corrosion of steel by groundwater, and enrichment of deep groundwater and geothermal resource, were used for the suitability assessments. From the evaluation achievements, the high and very high suitable lands for urban construction, with an acreage percentage of 89.2%, were located in most parts of the study area. Meanwhile, for another 9.1% of the land, the impacts of geological faults, land subsidence, and potential liquefied sands needed to be noted preferentially for urban construction.