MAIN DRILLING, SAMPLING AND FIELD TESTING FACILITIES

Drilling Rigs

• MOBILE Drill B-31 rotary rig, mounted on 4WD Bedford truck, capacity of 120m.
• EDECO -  H40 rotary rig mounted on mercedes 1735 truck, capacity 370.
• MOBILE- Rotary drill rig capacity 100m.
• MOBILE- Rotary drill rig capacity 100m. 

Geotechnical Investigation Field Testing

• Pneumatic Borehole Packer for Permeability (Luegon)Testing in Boreholes.
• Wireline Drilling System.
• Double tube core barrels for hard soil and rock coring (HWF core barrel;  98mm outside and 76mm inside diameter) according to ASTM D 2113-70.
• Split barrel tubes with cone accessory for Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Cone.
• Thin wall tubes for soil sampling (shelby tubes) 3” dia. according to ASTM D 1587-74.
• Piston samplers 3 inch dia.
• Drilling rods with various diameters and lengths.
• Augured rods with various diameters and lengths.
• Casing with various outside diameters and lengths.
• Air compressors with various capacities.
• Water and mud pumps with various capacities.
• Plate loading testing.
• Evaluation of Cracking.
• Temperature Monitoring of Concrete.

Geophysical Testing

• Borehole Verticality.
• P-S Wave digital sonic logging.

Pile Testing

• Low Strain Integrity Testing on Piles.
• High Strain Dynamic Testing of Piles.
• Cross Hole Sonic Logging.

Topographical Surveying

• Land surveying.
• Marine surveying.

MAJOR LABORATORY TESTING FACILITIES

  Soil and Aggregate

• Particle Size Distribution (Wet and Dry Sieving).
• Organic Impurities in Fine Aggregates for Concrete.
• Clay Lumps and Friable Particles in Aggregates.
• Specific Gravity and Absorption of Coarse / Fine Aggregate.
• Agg.Crushing Value & Agg.Impact Value.
• Ten Percent Fines Value of Aggregates.
• Los Angeles Abration.
• Chemical Testing of Soil (Sulphate, Chloride, pH, TDS, etc.)
• Drying Shrinkage of Aggregates.
• Field Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil.
• Particle Size Distribution.
• Dry Density-Moisture Content Relationship using 4.5kg Rammer.
• California Bearing Ratio (CBR).
• Determination of the Unconfined Comp.Strength.
• Determination of  Shear Strength by Direct Shear.
• Dynamic Cone Penetration (Mackintosh).
• Unconfined Compressive Strength of Intact Rock Core Specimens.
• Determination of the Point Load Strength Index of Rock.
• Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soil.
• Unconsolidated-Undrained Triaxial Compression Test.

Concrete and Steel

• Destructive Testing
• Non-Destructive Testing 

 Destructive Testing

• Compressive Strength of Concrete Cubes.
• Compressive Strength of Cylindrical.
• Flexural Test for Modulus of Rupture of Moulded Concrete Beams.
• Compressive Strength &Dimension of Masonry Blocks.
• Compressive Strength &Dimension of Paving Blocks.
• Comp. Strength of Concrete Cores.
• Initial Surface Absorption.
• Electrical Indication of Concrete's Ability to Resist Chloride Ion Penetration.
• Drilling Concrete Cores.
• Nuclear Moisture/Density Meter for soils & asphalt testing
• Initial Surface Absorption of Concrete According to BS 1881:Part 208
• Crack Detection Microscope
• Biaxial Inclinometer Syste for Measurement Lateral Displacement
• Strain Gauge Sensors & Data Logger for Monitoring Strain in Concrete & Rock