Pile Inspection Services in Alberta
Alpha Adroit Engineering routinely provides pile inspection and design services in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan in Canada. Alpha Adroit offers services to international locations (particularly the Middle East) through its headquarters and advanced laboratories in Edmonton, Alberta. Projects in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Labrador would be considered based on the project's merits and Alpha Adroit's unique advantages.
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Deep Foundations
A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers the structural loads to the deeper bearing strata (end bearing pile) or distributes the loads along the pile shaft (friction piles). In reality, both mechanisms (end bearing and frictional mechanism) contribute to the resistance capacity of pile foundations.
A foundation is considered a deep foundation when the depth of the bottom of the foundation (D) is more than 2.5 times (sometimes conservatively taken as minimum 4 times) the width of the bearing cross-section of the foundation (diameter of the pile, "d", or the width of the deep footing, "B").
Some reasons when Alpha Adroit would recommend a deep foundation over shallow foundation include when the design loads are very high, bearing soils at shallow depth are weak (such as existence of uncontrolled fill), there are site constraints such as property line restrictions, underpinning is required, there are environmental conditions that make construction of shallow foundations difficult or costly, slope stabilization using piles are required, buried lateral soil retention using piles are required, or other specialized applications require using pile foundations.
Alpha Adroit's Pile Design and Inspection Services
Alpha Adroit's services for deep foundations include pile design, design review, and pile inspection services for cast-in-place concrete piles, driven piles (steel pipe piles, H- Piles, concrete pre-cast piles, timber piles) using hammer and vibratory pile drivers, CFA (Continuous Flight Auger) piles, belled piles, fluted piles, helical piles (screw piles), Compacto piles, pressure injected footings or piles (Franki Piles) , heavy-duty caissons, micro piles, soldier piles (soldier piles and timber lagging), adfreeze piles, secant piled walls, tangent piled walls, buried slurry walls, sheet piles, under-reamed piles, pile groups, and pile caps.
Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides construction Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) services to ensure the construction procedures and materials used for pile foundations conform to the design specifications and assumptions, as well as, to the proper construction practices. The QA/QC procedures will also examine the soil and rock conditions at the site at each pile location to ensure the design bearing capacity is achieved and available to carry structural and other loads.
Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd accepts all sizes of projects, and no job is too small or too big for Alpha Adroit. Alpha Adroit is generally retained to provide pile inspection services to project owners, prime consultants, piling contractors, general contractors and other sub-consultant or sub-contractors involved with piling construction. Alpha Adroit's servicesinclude:
- Providing engineering consultation and design, piling technology knowledge, know-how, and quality control procedures and criteria
- Pre-construction design review and organization
- Pre-construction site meeting and verification of pile layout and construction plans
Pile Inspection Services for Driven Piles:
- Pile driving operation inspections (including also driving equipment: hammers, and efficiency)
- Recordkeeping
- Pay items
- Reporting
Pile Inspection Services for Cast-in-Place Concrete Piles (straight shaft, belled, CFA, Compacto, Franki, grouted anchors):
- Pile construction inspection
- Verification of geometry (depth and diameters)
- Recordkeeping and reporting of all procedures for verification of soil and rock properties
- Groundwater and sloughing conditions
- Casing (if required)
- Heating and insulation (if needed)
- Steel reinforcement
- Concrete testing (air, slump, casting cylinders, curing and strength testing of concrete samples)
Pile Inspection Services for Screw Piles (Helical Piles):
- Verification of geometry and material
- Pile driving operation inspections (driving equipment, torque, load calibration)
- Quality of operation
- Recordkeeping
- Pay items
- Reporting
- Static Pile Load Testing
- Dynamic Pile Load Testing
- Dynamic Pile Analyzer (PDA) and Integrity Testing
- Testing of Laterally Loaded Piles
- Evaluation of field reports and verification of construction compliance with pile design
- Senior and peer review of reports, construction quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), and project management
Advanced Pile Design and Testing Services:
- Driven piles vibration monitoring
- Vibration monitoring alarm system
- PDA (Pile Dynamic Analyzer) testing
- Pile Integrity Testing (PIT or PET)
- Cross-hole Sonic Logging (CSL)
- Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP)
- Pile Integrity Testing
- Providing advanced geotechnical engineering and technological consultation
- Site and project-specific risk assessment
- Offering project-specific safety factor (WSD— Working Stress Design)
- Providing project-specific resistance factors (LRDF — Limit States Design)
- Design of piling technology and design knowledge and procedures
- Design specifications
- Construction methodology
- Failure and performance criteria
- Specialty testing and verification procedures for unique projects
- Forensic, preventive, and remedial geotechnical engineering (failure investigation) for deep foundation (pile foundation) systems
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Alpha Adroit provides pile inspection services throughout Alberta including and not limited to the following major centers. Mileage (if applicable at all) will be calculated using one of the following closest municipality addresses (or hotel/camp address for remote projects) for large projects (please confirm at the time of requesting or ordering materials testing services):
For special or large projects — to better serve our clients — we have an option to offer adjusted mileage and travel time that are based on the distance of the municipality address of the closest city to the project site. Mileage (if applicable) will be calculated using one of the following closest municipality addresses (or hotel/camp address for remote projects) for large projects - PLEASE confirm at the time of requesting services: City in Alberta Address For special or large projects — to better serve our clients — we have an option to offer adjusted mileage and travel time that are based on the distance of the municipality address of the closest city to the project site. Mileage (if applicable) will be calculated using one of the following closest county addresses (or hotel/camp address for remote projects) for large projects - PLEASE confirm at the time of requesting services: County in Alberta Specialized or Rural Municipality
Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides pile inspection services for construction compliance with Alberta Building Code, Alberta Transportation, City of Edmonton Specifications, City of Calgary Specifications, and other municipality and county specifications throughout Alberta including and not limited to the following major Alberta regions.Airdrie
400 Main Street SE, Airdrie, Alberta T4B 3C3 Brooks
201 1st Avenue West, Brooks, Alberta T1R 1B7 Calgary
800 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M5 Camrose
5204 - 50 Avenue, Camrose, Alberta T4V 0S8 Chestermere
105 Marina Rd, Chestermere, Alberta T1X 1V7 Cold Lake
5513 - 48 Avenue, Cold Lake, Alberta T9M 1A1 Fort McMurray
9909 Franklin Avenue, Fort McMurray (Wood Buffalo), Alberta T9H 2K4 Fort Saskatchewan
10005 - 102 Street, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta T8L 2C5 Grande Prairie
10205 - 98 Street, Grande Prairie, Alberta T8V 2E7 Lacombe
5432 - 56 Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta T4L 1E9 Leduc
1 Alexandra Park, Leduc, Alberta T9E 4C4 Lethbridge
910 - 4th Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 0P6 Lloydminster
50 Avenue, Lloydminster, Alberta T9V 0W2 Medicine Hat
580 - 1 Street SE, Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 8E6 Red Deer
4914 - 48 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3T3 Spruce Grove
315 Jespersen Avenue, Spruce Grove, Alberta T7X 3E8 St Albert
5 St Anne Street, St Albert, Alberta T8N 3Z9 Wetaskiwin
4705 - 50 Avenue, Wetaskiwin, Alberta T9A 0R8
Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides Pile Inspection Services for construction compliance with Alberta Building Code, Alberta Transportation, City of Edmonton Specifications, City of Calgary Specifications, and other municipality and county specifications throughout Alberta including and not limited to the following Alberta regions.Athabasca
Athabasca County Banff
Improvement District No. 9 (Banff) Barrhead
County of Barrhead No. 11 Bashaw
Camrose County Bassano
County of Newell Beaumont
Leduc County Beaverlodge
County of Grande Prairie No. 1 Bentley
Lacombe County Black Diamond
Municipal District of Foothills No. 31 Blackfalds
Lacombe County Bon Accord
Sturgeon County Bonnyville
Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87 Bow Island
County of Forty Mile No. 8 Bowden
Red Deer County Bruderheim
Lamont County Calmar
Leduc County Canmore
Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8 and Kananaskis Improvement District Cardston
Cardston County Carstairs
Mountain View County Castor
County of Paintearth No. 18 Claresholm
Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 Coaldale
Lethbridge County Coalhurst
Lethbridge County Cochrane
Rocky View County Coronation
County of Paintearth No. 18 Crossfield
Rocky View County Daysland
Flagstaff County Devon
Leduc County Didsbury
Mountain View County Drayton Valley
Brazeau County Drumheller
Kneehill County / Special Area No. 2 / Starland County / Wheatland County Eckville
Lacombe County Edson
Yellowhead County Elk Point
County of St. Paul No. 19 Fairview
Municipal District of Fairview No. 136 Fort Macleod
Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 Fox Creek
Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 Gibbons
Sturgeon County Grande Cache
Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 Granum
Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 Grimshaw
Municipal District of Peace No. 135 Hanna
Special Area No. 2 Hardisty
Flagstaff County High Level
Mackenzie County High Prairie
Big Lakes County High River
Municipal District of Foothills No. 31 Hinton
Yellowhead County Innisfail
Red Deer County Irricana
Rocky View County Killam
Flagstaff County Lamont
Lamont County Legal
Sturgeon County Magrath
Cardston County Manning
County of Northern Lights Mayerthorpe
Lac Ste. Anne County McLennan
Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130 Milk River
County of Warner No. 5 Millet
County of Wetaskiwin No. 10 Morinville
Sturgeon County Mundare
Lamont County Nanton
Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 Okotoks
Municipal District of Foothills No. 31 Olds
Mountain View County Onoway
Lac Ste. Anne County Oyen
Special Area No. 3 Peace River
County of Northern LightsNorthern Sunrise CountyMunicipal District of Peace No. 135 Penhold
Red Deer County Picture Butte
Lethbridge County Pincher Creek
Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 Ponoka
Ponoka County Provost
Municipal District of Provost No. 52 Rainbow Lake
Mackenzie County Raymond
County of Warner No. 5 Redcliff
Cypress County Redwater
Sturgeon County Rimbey
Ponoka County Rocky Mountain House
Clearwater County Sedgewick
Flagstaff County Sexsmith
County of Grande Prairie No. 1 Slave Lake
Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124 Smoky Lake
Smoky Lake County Spirit River
Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133 St. Paul [N7]
County of St. Paul No. 19 Stavely
Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26 Stettler
County of Stettler No. 6 Stony Plain
Parkland County Strathmore
Wheatland County Sundre
Mountain View County Swan Hills
Big Lakes County Sylvan Lake
Red Deer County Taber
Municipal District of Taber Thorsby
Leduc County Three Hills
Kneehill County Tofield
Beaver County Trochu
Kneehill County Turner Valley
Municipal District of Foothills No. 31 Two Hills
County of Two Hills No. 21 Valleyview
Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 Vauxhall
Municipal District of Taber Vegreville
County of Minburn No. 27 Vermilion
County of Vermilion River Viking
Beaver County Vulcan
Vulcan County Wainwright
Municipal District of Wainwright No. 61 Wembley
County of Grande Prairie No. 1 Westlock
Westlock County Whitecourt
Woodlands County
We provide pile inspection services throughout Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. We also offer services in international locations directed through our headquarters office in Edmonton, Alberta. Major cities include Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Fort McMurray (AB — Alberta), Vancouver (BC— British Columbia), and Saskatoon (SK— Saskatchewan). Alpha Adroit offers services to international locations (particularly the Middle East) through its headquarters and advanced laboratories in Edmonton, Alberta. Projects in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Newfoundland, and Labrador would be considered based on the project's merits and Alpha Adroit's unique advantages.