Laboratory Testing

Testing services for soil, concrete, asphalt and aggregate

Caliber provides field and laboratory quality-control services for soil, concrete, asphalt, aggregate, water, and other construction materials. Testing supports material characterization, mix design, construction verification, structural assessment, and project-specific technical reporting.

Soil - Field and Laboratory

• Sieve Analysis
• Atterberg Limit (P.L. & L.L.)
• Proctor Test
• California Bearing Ratio test including Proctor
• Field Density Test by Sand Cone method
• Design of Aggregate Base Course

Concrete Testing

• Concrete Mix Design with two trial mixes and quality test
• Trial Mix
• Complete Quality Test of Aggregate
• Casting of concrete cylinder or cube samples
• Sampling
• Slump testing
• Temperature checking
• Curing
• Crushing
• Compressive-strength testing of concrete cubes
• Compressive-strength testing of concrete cylinders
• Compressive-strength testing of bricks
• Compressive-strength and absorption testing of hollow blocks and tuff tiles
• Concrete coring with compressive-strength testing
• Schmidt Hammer testing

Asphalt Testing

• Marshall mix design with quality test
• Bitumen extraction
• Marshall stability and flow test
• Asphalt coring with compaction result

Aggregate Testing

• Los Angeles Abrasion
• Soundness
• Clay Lumps and Friable Particles
• Organic Impurities in Sand
• Sand Equivalent
• Sieve Analysis for gravel or sand
• Specific Gravity for gravel or sand
• Material Finer than No. 200 Sieve
• Thin and Elongated Particles
• Soft Fragments and Shale

Coring and Drilling

• Extraction of cores in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8-inch diameters
• Filling holes with cementitious grout
• Drilling holes of different diameters and depths