Services
Geotechnical Engineering Services
Our team of geotechnical engineers develop solutions and complete engineered designs for a wide range of projects. A few examples include:
- Exploration Reports
- Geotechnical Reports
- Slope Failure / Landslide Stabilization and Reconstruction Design
- Slope Stability and Global Stability
- Soil Stabilization
- Settlement Analysis
- Expansive Soil and Problematic Soil Remediation Design
- Geotechnical Instrumentation Monitoring
- Pavement Design
- Basin Liner Design
- Embankment Design
- Ground Improvement Design and Analysis
Construction Material Testing Services
- Field Density Testing - Nuclear Methods, Drive Tubes, and Sand Cone Methods
- Concrete Field Sampling and Testing - Air Content, Slump, Temperature, and Cast Test Cylinders
- Compressive Strength Testing - Concrete, Mortar, Grout, and other self-hardening materials
- Stockpile Sampling
- Steel Reinforcement Observations
- Anchor Bolt and Mechanical Fastener Documentation
- Masonry Testing and Construction Documentation
- Foundation Subgrade Observations
- Roadway Proofroll Observations
- General Grading and Construction Observations and Documentation
Laboratory Testing Services
We are an accredited full service geotechnical and construction material testing laboratory. Our list of available tests are as extensive as the ASTM book of standards.
Please contact us if you require a test method not listed.
- Atterberg Limits - Liquid Limit and Plastic Limit
- Typical Soil Index Tests
- Consolidation and Swell
- Direct Shear
- Unconfined Compressive Strength - Load Frame and Rimac Apparatus
- Triaxial Testing - Consolidated Undrained, Unconsolidated Undrained,
- Moisture-Density Relationships - Standard and Modified Proctors
- Grain Size Analysis
- Soil Permeability
- Development of Custom Test Methodology
Drilling Services
We own and operate a CME-45 mounted on a CME-300 tracked carrier, manufactured by Central Mine Equipment Company. The CME-45 was manufactured with the intent to perform geotechnical explorations in difficult to reach locations.
- Track-mounted CME-45
- Standard Penetration Test (SPT) performed with an Automatic SPT Hammer (87% Hammer Efficiency)
- Hollow Stem Augers
- Continuous Flight Augers
- Shelby Tube Sampling
- Mud Rotary
- Rock Coring
- Piezometer Installation
- Inclinometer Installation
- Roadway Pavement Coring
- Foundation Coring
- Floor Slab Coring
- Test Pit Explorations
- Hand Auger Explorations
- Giddings Soil Probe - Trailer Mounted Auger Rig