Geotechnical & Chemical Testing
We are equipped to provide comprehensive geotechnical soil, rock and groundwater testing services (complying with the British Standard BS 1377), together with a suite of chemical testing as below:
Classification Testing
- Natural Moisture Content; MC
- Plasticity Index (Atterberg Limit); PI
- Plastic Limit (Atterberg Limit Test); PL
- Liquid Limit (Atterberg Limit Test); LL
- Particle Density; PD or Specific Gravity; SG
- Bulk & Dry Density; BD & DD
- Saturation Moisture Content of Chalk; SMC
- PSD Grading – Wet & Dry Sieve Methods
- PSD by Pipette Method (sedimentation)
Performance Testing
- Dry Density Moisture Content Relationship
(Compaction); DD/MC, OMC & MDD - Moisture Condition Value; MCV
- Laboratory California Bearing Ratio; CBR
Consolidation Testing
- One Dimensional Consolidation
(Oedometer) - Swelling Pressure
Permeability Testing
- Direct Measurement of Permeability
under Constant Head
Shear Testing
- Immediate Undrained Shearbox
- Consolidated Drained Shearbox
- Laboratory Vane
Triaxial Testing
- Quick Undrained Triaxial
(single/multistage) - Consolidated Undrained
& Drained Triaxial
Effective Stress Testing
- Isotropically Consolidated Undrained Test
- Isotropically Consolidated Drained Test
Rock Testing
- Measurement of Uniaxial
Compressive Strength; UCS - Point Load; PL
Chemical Testing
- pH value
- Sulphate Content
- Organic Content
- Chloride Content
- BRE SD1 Suite
- BRE SD1 2005
Our accredited testing is described on our UKAS schedule of accreditation found here 
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