CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
TESTING & INSPECTION
Our expert geotechnical testing and sampling services provide a link between the owner, professional design team, and the contractor.
- Construction Inspection
- Construction Materials Testing
- Foundation Elements
- Floor Slabs
- Pavements
- Masonry
- Fill Material Compaction Testing & Inspection
Construction Inspection




Construction Materials Testing & Inspection
APEC’s soils and materials testing laboratory is managed by a professional engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the materials testing field. Our laboratory is INDOT prequalified with AASHTO certification and we can provide the following tests in accordance with ASTM and AASHTO standards:

⦁ Moisture content
⦁ Atterberg limits(plasticity)
⦁ Standard and modified Proctor tests (moisture vs. density curves)
⦁ Sieve analysis (particle size gradation) with No. 200 wash (fines content)
⦁ Hydrometer analysis

⦁ Specific gravity
⦁ Shrink and swell of soils
⦁ Consolidation testing
⦁ Organic content
⦁ Unconfined compressive strength
⦁ Triaxial testing
⦁ Permeability testing
⦁ Slake durability and jar slake
⦁ pH
⦁ Unit weight
Foundation Elements
⦁ Soil Subgrade Testing & Inspection
⦁ Bearing Capacity Testing
⦁ Steel Reinforcement Inspection
⦁ Concrete Sampling & Testing
Floor Slabs
⦁ Soil Subgrade Testing & Inspection
⦁ Base Material Compaction Testing
⦁ Steel Reinforcement Inspection
⦁ Concrete Sampling & Testing
⦁ Floor Flatness / Floor Levelness
⦁ Moisture Permeability / Vapor Transmissions
Pavements
⦁ Soil Subgrade Testing & Inspection
⦁ Base Material Compaction Testing
⦁ Concrete Sampling & Testing
⦁ Asphalt Coring / Thickness Confirmation
⦁ Asphalt Mix Confirmation
Masonry
⦁ Mortar & Grout Testing
⦁ Steel Reinforcement Inspection
⦁ CMU Testing
Fill Material Compaction Testing & Inspection
⦁ Lift Thickness Confirmation
⦁ Density & Moisture Content Testing