Services

Thermal Control Plans for Mass Concrete
  • Determine heat of hydration for concrete mix
  • Concrete mixture optimization for constructibility
  • Cooling tube size, spacing, water velocity, and run length
  • Multi-lift pour timing
  • Underwater mass concrete solutions
  • Performance-based temperature differential analysis
  • Rush services
Concrete Slab-on-grade Design, Design Review, and Pre-Lease Evaluation
  • Determine load carrying capacity and serviceability of existing industrial concrete slabs-on-grade for companies, property managers, investors, and lenders
  • Design and design review of industrial concrete slabs-on-grade for mitigation of distress and minimizing cracking
Concrete Mix Designs and Implementation of Alternatives to Portland Cement
  • High supplementary cementitious material replacement
  • Steel and poly macro fiber dose
  • Concrete mix design for service life requirement
  • Control of distress due to alkali-silica reactions, delayed ettringite formation, and exposure to acid and caustic materials
  • Admixture choice and dosing
  • Review of aggregate sources and gradations
  • Consulting on CAC, alkali-activated, and shrinkage compensating concrete
Concrete Specification Review
  • Review and revise specifications
  • Remove redundancies and unclear language
  • Bridge engineering and contractor language and processes
  • Identify standard tests and field observations required to achieve performance-based specifications
Assessment and Selection of Concrete Repair Materials
  • Evaluate repair products submitted by contractors for compatibility with purpose, repair environment, schedule, durability, and mechanical properties
  • Review concrete mix designs for compatibility with conveyance methods, placement methods, time of set, and durability
  • Recommend or review product submittals for curing compounds, integral waterproofing, sealers, and densifiers
  • Recommendations of type and dose of fiber to replace or supplement reinforcing steel for unreinforced, plain concrete structures
Third-party Response and Review for Concrete and General Contractors
  • Advocate for contractor-proposed construction methodology to EOR and owner
  • Embed with design-build teams for thermal control, crack mitigation of large foundations, walls, or tanks, and service life design
  • Review, response, and solutions for non-compliance citations
  • Review or rewriting of hot or cold weather or mass concrete placing protocols
Diagnosis of Concrete Infrastructure Failures

Scaling, spalling, delamination, low-strength, high air, low air, freezing, D-cracking, plastic shrinkage cracking, restrained volume change cracking, curling, warping, pop-outs, freeze-thaw distress, over loading, alkali-silica reaction, delayed ettringite formation, honeycombing, cold joints, aggregate shadowing, poor drainage, loss of aggregate interlock, loss of load transfer across joints, moisture vapor emissions, restraint, and corrosion of reinforcing steel.

Concrete Service-Life Prediction
  • Corrosion control plans and concrete-service life planning for large infrastructure projects
  • Concrete mix design to maximize concrete service life
  • Test data and calculation of infrastructure service life
  • Crack mitigation
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