Materials Engineering

Our team is highly specialized and experienced in providing materials engineering and testing solutions. We provide engineering consulting, construction quality control/quality assurance, and testing services to a broad spectrum of clients in heavy industrial, commercial, transportation, utilities, municipal infrastructure, and institutional sectors. We have become a regional leader in the delivery of materials engineering services and expertise. Since our inception, we have undertaken thousands of projects for hundreds of clients in the following services:

Concrete Technology

• 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 vapor 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)

Construction QA/QC Testing

• 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

Hot Mix Asphalt Technology

• 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