SERVICES
CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL TESTING SERVICES
GFA has extensive experience providing Construction Materials Testing Services for private developers, municipal departments that manage the construction of public facilities, as well as well as public works and infrastructure improvements project. We understand your continuous need for increased efficiency as well as timely and accurate reporting.
Asphalt
GFA's services are designed to ensure that asphalt products comply as intended. GFA provides asphalt mix designs and verifications, aggregate gradation, stability and specific gravity testing. Field services such as placement inspection, thickness checks, and asphalt coring are also offered.
Concrete
GFA's services include complete testing and inspection of concrete materials. GFA samples fresh concrete for air content, slump, temperature, and unit weight. Samples are obtained for compressive strength results. GFA additionally provides inspection services, floor slab flatness profiling, ultrasonic and R-meter testing and observes concrete placement and provides floor slab flatness profiling.
Soils
GFA provides certified technicians to monitor the compaction of soils by performing on-site tests (e.g. soil density, moisture content, and visual observations). We analyze the suitability of site soils for structural fill and provide recommendations for suggested alterations and equipment utilization. We perform vibro-floatation monitoring and ground penetrating radar as well as other testing services.
- Field Reconnaissance
- Boreholes
- Soundings
- Geophysical Methods
- Roadway Soil Survey
- Structure Investigation
- Cone Penetrometer Tests
- Percolation Tests
- Infiltration Tests
- Permeability Tests
- Corrosion Tests
- Standard Penetration Tests
- Grain-Size Analysis
- Moisture Content
- Atterberg Limits
- Specific Gravity
- Strength Tests
- Consolidation Tests
- Organic Content
- Shrinkage & Swell
- Compaction
- Florida Bearing Value (FBV)
- Ground Penetrating Radar Services
- Soils Classifications / Surveys
- Drainage Testing
- Miscellaneous Field Services
- Test Excavations
- Laboratory Testing
- Asphalt
- Cores
- Backscatter Densities (Nuclear)
- Thickness Determination
- Concrete
- Casting Cylinders
- Casting Cubes and Prisms
- Casting Beams
- Drilled Cores
- Air Content
- Slump
- Windsor Probe
- Unit Weight & Yield
- Soil Sampling
- Densities (Nuclear Method)
- Densities (Sand Cone Method)
- Densities (Drysleeve Method)
- Limerock Bearing Ration (LBR)
Laboratory Testing
Aggregates
- L.A. Abrasion Resistance (graded/uncrushed)
- Limerock Carbonate Content
- Organic Impurities
- Rock Mass Description
- Sieve Analysis
- Specific Gravity and Absorption
- Unit Weight
Asphalt
- Bitumen Extraction and Gradation
- Bulk Specific Gravity of Cores
- Marshall Stability and Flow
- Mix Design
- Theoretical Maximum Specific Gravity
- Roadway Cores
Concrete
- Compressive Strength Cylinders/Cubes/Cores
- Flexural Strength-Beams
- Mix Design
Masonry
- Compressive Strength-Mortar/Grout/CMUs
- Prism Test
Soils
- Atterberg Limits
- California Bearing Ratio
- Classification
- Consolidation (One Dimensional)
- Corrosive Series (pH, Sulfates, Chlorides, Resistivity)
- Florida Bearing Value
- Heavy Metals Analysis
- Hydrometer Analysis
- Limerock Bearing Ratio
- Moisture Content
- Organic Content
- Permeability (Triaxial, Constant Head)
- Permeability (Falling Head)
- PH
- Proctor (Standard/Modified)
- Resistivity
- Shrinkage Limit
- Sieve Analysis
- Specific Gravity
- Triaxial/Unconfined Compression
Non-Destructive Testing
- Welding
- Dye Penetrant
- Magnetic Particle
- Pachometer
- Radiographic
- Ultrasonic
