Services

Geotechnical Engineering

Geotechnical investigations - marine and land-based
Design recommendations and settlement analysis for conventional shallow foundations
Design recommendations and settlement analysis of large diameter, above ground storage tanks
Design recommendations for deep foundations (pile types, capacities, wave equation analysis)
Design recommendations for wharf structures including concrete cribs, high capacity rock-socketed caissons and tied back bulkheads
Design recommendations for embankments, earthworks and retaining walls
Design recommendations for ground improvement techniques such as dynamic compaction, engineered fills, stone columns
Surface and subsurface drainage consultation and design
Slope stabilization solutions for soils and bedrock including rock mesh, rock bolts, anchors and dowels
Pile Driving Monitoring
Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) for dynamic load testing
Recommendations for road construction over soft soils
Analysis and recommendations for deep excavations, shoring design and base stabilization

Condition surveys and investigations
Design of repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated concrete
Recommendation for protective coatings
Concrete mix designs, trial batches and specialty concrete mixes
Consultation on temperature evolution in mass concrete and methods to minimize the potential for shrinkage and thermal cracking
Concrete temperature monitoring with thermocouples and data logger including Maturity method for in-place strength estimation
Chloride profiling in concrete
Testing and evaluation of concrete aggregates including alkali-aggregate reactivity
Development of QC/QA programs for concrete related work
Testing of tensile bond strength of coatings and repair applications
Testing vapour diffusion through concrete floors for input to flooring applications
Rapid Chloride Penetrability testing
Floor flatness and levelness measurements (FF/FL with Allan Face “D Meter”)
Scanning for rebar and conduit using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

CCIL - certified concrete testing laboratories and Technicians/Technologists
ACI - certified technicians
Acceptance testing of construction aggregates and soils for road materials and structural fills
Compaction testing of structural fill materials for in-place density
Construction quality management
Sampling and testing of ready mix concrete
Sampling and testing of grout and mortar for masonry construction
Sampling and testing of specialty grouts for anchor bolts, column and machine base applications
Review of reinforced steel placement
Quality review of concrete repair methods and repair material applications

Asphalt technology including mix designs (both Marshall and Superpave methods), investigations and material testing
Aggregate acceptance testing for use as various construction materials (asphalt and roadbed applications)
Hot Mix Asphalt mix designs
Hot Mix Asphalt batch plant control
Sampling and testing of Hot Mix Asphalt (both Marshall and Superpave methods)
In-place testing of asphaltic concrete
Extraction, gradation and asphalt content (ignition oven method)
Thickness and densities of Hot Mix Asphalt cores
AC content
Pavement condition surveys