Materials Testing Services | Geoscience Engineering & Laboratory Services

GEOSCIENCE ENGINEERING AND LABORATORY SERVICES specializes in cost-effective laboratory and field testing services that ensure the conformance of materials and construction practices to project specifications. We offer independent construction materials testing at our eight regional laboratory facilities and in the field, with most tests completed in-house to save our clients both time and money.

Our advanced testing programs are essential for projects sensitive to soil behavior, including high-rise buildings, bridges, dams, power plants, mines, levees, offshore platforms, and tunnels. Our accredited soils laboratories utilize state-of-the-art equipment to conduct testing that meets both local and internationally accepted standards, particularly in geotechnical engineering.

To keep projects running smoothly and efficiently in today's fast-paced environment, we use electronic report transmittals and a unique laboratory database management system.

The field and laboratory technicians at GEOSCIENCE ENGINEERING AND LABORATORY SERVICES possess extensive experience across various sectors, including retail, commercial, hospitality, health care, energy, and transportation projects like highways, bridges, and aviation initiatives. They are well-versed in protocols for sampling and testing a wide range of materials, ensuring comprehensive quality assurance testing.

Our field technicians are certified as American Concrete Institute (ACI) Level I Concrete Technicians, reinforcing our commitment to quality in construction materials testing.

We provide construction Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) for concrete construction, earthworks, and other geo-constructions to guarantee that construction procedures and materials align with design specifications and engineering assumptions, as well as adhere to proper construction practices. Examples of our services include:

- Inspection and materials testing services for utility line placement, site grading, and the construction of embankments, engineered fills, excavations, and retaining walls.

- Monitoring, inspection (pile inspection), and materials testing services for driving steel piles and constructing concrete shafts, caissons, belled piles, Compacto piles, CFA piles, footings, and mat foundations.

- Rebar and form inspection, along with materials testing services for fresh and cured concrete in reinforced concrete constructions.

- Soil testing and proof rolling inspections for pavements and sub-grades.

- Soil compaction testing using nuclear density gauges (densometers) for sub-grades, site grading, engineered fills, and structural fills.

- Concrete testing services for various types of structural concrete, including plastic concrete, zero-slump concrete, lightweight concrete, grout concrete, Sika grout, cementitious grout, non-shrink grout, shotcrete, roller-compacted concrete (RCC), cementitious materials, and asphalt concrete materials.

- Materials engineering and design, lab tests, research, interpretation of test results, and the development of technical knowledge databases for new engineering materials.

- Materials testing for Forensic Geotechnical Engineering applications including failure investigation, expert witness services, and remedial and repair engineering.