Geotechnical and Environmental Laboratory Testing

Underlying all aspects of Soil Mechanics' operations is a firm and on-going commitment to quality encompassing ISO and UKAS standards which guarantee competency training of staff and calibration of all measurement equipment to national standards. Today we possess the most extensive geotechnical laboratory facilities in the UK, ensuring that our highly skilled field operations are backed by superb analytical services. We also have the largest commercial effective stress testing laboratory in Europe. A comprehensive suite of soil, rock and environmental testing provides a professional capability further enhanced by our sister company Scientifics' wide range of chemical and micro-biological testing and analysis.

Further more, on-going developments into areas of advanced/designer testing and data capture techniques ensures that Soil Mechanics are at the forefront of this technology

The control of data is vital which is why our ground investigation services are backed by fully documented process controls and effective reporting including fully documented chains of custody, temperature controlled storage of test samples and documented storage of over 15,000 undisturbed samples and more than 80,000 disturbed samples.

Our geotechnical laboratory capability includes:

• Index tests
• Strength tests
• Thermal conductivity tests
• Advanced/designer tests
• Soil and rock classification
• Compaction related tests
• Consolidation tests
• Permeability tests
• Testing of chalk
• Testing of rocks
• Lime stabilisation tests
• Chemical tests 

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