Welcome to Alpha Adroit Engineering!

We are a Canadian consulting company providing geotechnical engineering, materials testing, environmental consulting, and non-destructive testing (NDT) services to various industry sectors. We provide our services in Canada  mainly in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Manitoba  and The Middle East. We also provide services in other international locations through our main office in Edmonton. 

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Geotechnical Engineering Foundations site investigation piles
  
Geotechnical Engineering   

Geotechnical Site Investigations, Foundation Design, Slope Stability, ...

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Materials Testing Construction Quality Control
 
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Concrete Testing, Soil Testing, Construction Quality Control (QC), ...

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Environmental Consulting Engineering Contamination Clean up

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Research and Development Geotechnical Innovation

Unconventional Solutions 

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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

 

— Call us Toll-Free: 1-844-4-ADROIT (1-844-423-7648) or please contact us here for more information.
 

 
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):

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Edmonton:

780-708-4110

Calgary:

403-918-4110

Red Deer:

403-918-4115

Fort McMurray:  

780-607-4114


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.

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 

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.

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

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 Lights
Northern Sunrise County
Municipal 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.