MAIN DRILLING, SAMPLING AND FIELD TESTING FACILITIES

Drilling Rigs

• Pilcon - Traveler 30 Cable Percussion drill rig, capacity 120m.
• Edeco STRATADRILL  Rotary drill rig mounted on a Mercedes truck, capacity of 370m.
• Taho Rotary Rig ,Mounted on Mitsubishi Pick-Up Capacity 46m.

Geotechnical Investigation and field Testing

• Pneumatic Borehole Packer for Permeability (Luegon)Testing in Boreholes
• Electrical Earth Resistivity Meter
• 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 Penetration Test (CPT) according to ASTM D 1586-67
• Thin wall tubes for soil sampling (shelby tubes) 3” dia. according to ASTM D 1587-74
• Drilling 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.
• Temperature Monitoring of Concrete
• Dynamic cone penetrometer (DCP)

Geophysical Testing

• Electrical Earth Resistivity Meter

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
• Light Weight Pieces in Aggregates
• Flakiness & Elongation Index of Coarse Aggregates
• Specific Gravity and Absorption of Coarse / Fine Aggregate
• Agg.Crushing Value & Agg.Impact Value
• Los Angeles Abration
• Soundness Test
• 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
• One-Dimensional Consolidation Properties of Soils
• Determination of  Shear Strength by Direct Shear
• Dynamic Cone Penetration (Mackintosh)
• Determination of Permeability by Constant Head Method
• Unconfined Compressive Strength of Intact Rock Core Specimens.
• Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soil 

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
• Drilling Concrete Cores
• Flexural Strength of Concrete (Using Simple Beam with Center Point Loading)
• Modulus of Rupture of Brick & Structural Clay Tile

Non-Destructive Testing

• Schmidt Hammer

Cement

• Cement Type.
• Cement Content.
• Water Cement Ratio.
• Setting time.
• Compressive strength.
• Fineness.
• Chemical.