MAIN DRILLING, SAMPLING AND FIELD TESTING FACILITIES
Drilling Rigs
· Edeco Strata drill Hydrostatic H40 rotary rig, truck mounted capacity 370m.
· Pullmack rotary rig, truck mounted capacity 50m.
OFFSHORE GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION
· Jack up Drilling Pontoon (4 x 8m deck with extended legs up to 15m).
· Boat - Double Engine, Mariner 115HP
GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION AND FIELD TESTING
· Menard Pressure meter set (NFP 94-10) conforming with ASTM D47.
· Explofor Set (Computerized Drilling Data Logger).
· Pagani Static Cone Penetrometer.
· Field Vane Shear Test Apparatus - various dimensions.
· Manual Dynamic Penetrometer (Mackintosh and TRLL Probe).
· Pocket Penetrometer
· Pneumatic Borehole Packer for Permeability (Luegon) Testing
· Electrical Earth Resistivity Meter.
· Soil Thermal Resistivity Meter.
· Radio - Detection Meter.
· Groundwater Monitoring Probes
· Plate Bearing Testing Apparatus
· Field CBR Testing Apparatus
· Triple Tube Core Barrels
· Double Tube Core Barrels for Hard Soil and Rock Coring (Diferent sizes : SWF, HWF, 412, TNW, NWF).
· Wire line Core Barrels (HQ3 Triple Tube Core Barrels and HQ Double Tube Core Barrel).
· Pneumatic down the Hole Hammers with various diameters.
· Split Barrel Tubes with Standard Penetration Test (SPT) .
· Thin Wall Tubes forSoil sampling (shelby tubes) 3 inch diameter.
· U 100 Sampling Systems with Heavy Duty Sliding Hammer.
· Piston samplers 3 inch diameter.
· Drilling Rods with various diameters and lengths.
· Auger Rods with various diameters and lengths.
· Hollow-Stem Augers, different sizes with pilot pits.
· Hand Augers
· Portable Auger Machine
· Casing with various outside diameters and lengths.
· Water and Mud Pumps with various capacities.
· Air Compressors with various capacities.
· Grouting Machine Type Putzmeister; Piston Pump.
· Grouting Machine Type Putzmeister; Screw Pump.
GEOPHYSICAL TESTING
· Full Wave Sonic Tool
· Caliper Logging.
PILE TESTING
· Low Strain Integrity Testing Of Piles (Sonic Integrity).
· High Strain Dynamic Testing Of Piles.
· Caliper Logging Of Borehole.
· Cross Hole Sonic Logging.
· Pile Instrumentation (Strain Gauges, Transducers For Pile Head Movement, Inclinometer, Shaft Shortening, Load Cell For End Bearing Measurement, etc…).
TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYING
· NIKON Field Station, DTM -821
· NIKON Auto Level AC-2S
· Leica Total Station TC1102
MAJOR LABORATORY TESTING FACILITIES
SOIL AND AGGREGATE
· Direct Shear Test Apparatus
· Point Load Test Apparatus
· CBR Test Apparatus
· Unconfined Compression Test Apparatus
· Odometer/Consolidation Test Apparatus
· Triaxial Compression Test Apparatus
· Permeability Test (Constant & Falling Head) Apparatus
· Los Angeles Abrasion Test Apparatus
· Aggregate Impact Value Test Apparatus
· Aggregate Crushing Value Test Apparatus
· 10% Fines Test Apparatus
· Flakiness & Elongation Tests Apparatus
· Apparatus For Specific Gravity Test, Atterberg Limits Tests (Casagrande & Cone Penetration), Grain Size Distribution Test, Speedy Moisture test, etc.
· Thermal resistivity / conductivity
· UTM for compresive strength of rock
CONCRETE AND STEEL
DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
· Concrete Compression Testing Machines
· Compression frames for manholes cover, pipes and flexural testing of Kerbs
· Steel Testing Machine
· Pull-off Tester
· Water penetration through concrete test apparatus.
· Complete set-up for electrical measurement of concrete ability to resist Chloride Ion Penetration.
· Various testing equipment, mixers, moulds and tools for sampling and testing of concrete.
· Complete set of instruments to test the drying shrinkage of concrete.
· Vibro consistometer to test the workability of RCC.
· Compress meter to test the elastic modulus and possion's ratio of concrete.
· Concrete cores sawing apparatus.
· Airometer.
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
· Electromagnetic Covermeters
· Half Cell Potential Devices
· Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Instruments.
· A unique patented field system for measuring the rate of corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete and measuring of concrete resistivity ambient temperature and relative humidity.
· Rebound Hammers
· Coating Thickness Gauges
· Coating Holidays Detectors, Low Voltage.
· Coating Holidays Detectors, High Voltage (Spark Tester).
· Concrete Moisture Encounter to measure insitu concrete moisture
· Nuclear Moisture/Density Meters for soils & Asphalt testing
· Initial surface absorption of concrete test apparatus.
· Crack Detection Microscope
· Biaxial Inclinometer System for Measurement of Lateral Displacement
· Strain Gauge Sensors & Data Logger for Monitoring Strain in Concrete & Rock.
· Complete set of instruments for measuring the built-up temperatures in concrete (with thermocomples).
· Complete set of instruments to test the water tightness of water retaining structures.
CEMENT
· Atomic Absorption Apparatus
· Flame Photometer
· Spectro Photometer
· Heat of Hydration Apparatus.
· Blaine Air Permeability Apparatus.
· Vicat Apparatus.
· Le Chatelier Apparatus.
· Complete set of instruments to test the compressive, flexural and tensile strengths of cement.
ASPHALT
· Extraction Apparatus.
· Marshall Stability Apparatus.
· Flash & Fire Point Apparatus.
· Ductility Apparatus.
· Penetration Apparatus.
· Softening point apparatus.
· Complete set of equipment to conduct asphalt mix designs.
· Indentation of asphalt waterproofing membrane apparatus.
· Cold pliability of asphalt waterproofing membrane apparatus.
· Asphalt cores sawing apparatus.
AGRICULTURE
· Complete set of instruments to test and assess the physical and/or chemical analysis of water, agricultural soils, fertilizers, manure, compost and peatmoss and to conduct plant tissue analysis.
ENVIRONMENT
· Complete set of instruments to carry out all environmental tests.
OTHER TESTING FACILITIES
· Fully equipped laboratories for physical, mechanical, chemical, electrical & thermal testing of soils, concrete, aggregate, bitumen, cement, water, steel, etc…
· All available equipment comply with the requirements of International Standards such as: British Standards (BS), American Standards (ASTM) and/or the German Standards (DIN).