100+ Geotechnical Engineering and Materials Testing Services in Alberta  

Geotechnical Engineering,  Materials Testing, and Construction Quality Control services are offered throughout Alberta by Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd for buildings (residential, commercial, and industrial), land developments, infrastructures, oil and gas,  mining, dams and levees, and pipeline industries. 

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Geotechnical engineering services — such as foundation design, geotechnical site investigations,slope stability analysis, retaining wall and shoring design,forensic geotechnical engineering (failure investigation and expert witness) —Materials Testing  (grout testing, concrete testing, and soil compaction testing), Permafrost Engineering, and Professional Geotechnical Engineer of Records (EOR) services (such as Pile Inspection Services) are offered throughout Alberta. 

We accept all sizes of projects and no job is too small or too big for Alpha Adroit. Our Geotechnical Engineering Services in Alberta mainly include:

• Geotechnical site investigation, geological characterization, and field and laboratory soil and rock testing
• Routine geotechnical survey
• Geotechnical engineering for shallow and deep foundations, embankments, excavations, engineered fills, ground improvements, pavements, retention ponds, sewage systems, and flood diversion systems
• Retaining wall and shoring analysis and design
• Slope stability analysis, slope failure control, slope stabilization, and landslide remediation
• Ground improvement engineering
• Pavement analysis and design
• Pile Design and Inspection Services for cast-in-place concrete pile foundations including straight shaft piles, belled piles, CFA (Continuous Flight Auger) piles, Compacto piles, and heavy-duty caissons 
• Pile Design and Inspection Services for driven pile foundations including concrete and steel piles, wood piles, pipe piles, pre-cast polymer piles, and micro piles — all types of friction and end bearing piles
• Design and foundation inspection services for footings, mat foundations, and basement walls
• Design and construction inspection for excavations and utility trenches
• Foundation consulting services including analysis, design, load testing, review, confirmation, failure investigation, instrumentation, monitoring, upgrading, remedial consultation, and Materials Testing (soil compaction testing, concrete testing, and grout testing)
• Permafrost and Frozen ground engineering, insulation design, and permafrost construction consultation
• Soil compaction testing using nuclear densometer, balloon test, sand cone, and Proctor compaction tests
• Advanced and routine field and laboratory testing, geotechnical instrumentation, specialty soil testing, soil compaction monitoring, soil engineering, specialty borehole logging and coring, and construction inspection
• Geotechnical investigation, analysis, and control of geohazards, including landslides, groundwater seepage, frost heave, thaw instability, swelling, settlement, liquefaction, sensitive soils, soft soils, ground collapse, buried valleys, underground cavities, and large-scale subsidence
• Numerical modeling and geotechnical risk analysis
• Specialized geotechnical engineering, testing, and monitoring services for land developments, buildings, roads, bridges, dams, tunnels, tank farms, towers, specialty infrastructures, open-pit mines, mining site support facilities, pipelines, oil and gas and manufacturing infrastructures
• piles, footing inspection, and bearing capacity inspection for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings 
• Foundation repair consultation and engineering for underpinning, grouting, mud-jacking, and other remedial measures 
• Senior and peer review of reports, construction quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), and project management
• Provision of advanced geotechnical engineering and technological consultation, knowledge, design specifications, methodology, failure and performance criteria, and specialty testing procedures for unique projects
• Forensic, preventive, and remedial geotechnical engineering (failure investigation) 
  
• NDT — Non-Destructive Testing

A Summary of some of Alpha Adroit's Geotechnical Engineering Services in Alberta is provided below:

Site Investigation and Characterization

Each site investigation and characterization project is planned for the specific requirements and objectives of that particular project, and may consist of:

• Conducting desk study and field reconnaissance
• Identifying, mapping, analyzing and controlling geotechnical hazards
• Routine geotechnical survey
• Field sampling via drilling, coring, test pitting, Shelby Tube sampling, Osterberg cell sampling, SPT tube sampling, and ground freezing techniques
• Conducting SPT (Standard Penetration Test), CPT (Cone Penetration Test), SCPTu (Seismic Cone Penetration Test with pore-water pressure measurement), PMT (Pressuremeter Test), DCP (Dynamic Cone penetrometer Test), SCP (Static Cone Penetrometer Test), shear vane, field load test, groundwater measurement, field permeability test, hydraulic fracturing, and other testing techniques as required
• Conducting Standard, advanced, and custom-designed lab tests on field samples or lab specimens prepared in the lab
• Installing geotechnical instruments and monitoring field performance
• Developing geological, geotechnical, and hydrogeological conceptual models for soil, rock, ore, discontinuities, and groundwater — interconnected with databases of material properties and chronological instrument data required to establish technical knowledge for geotechnical analysis and design  
• Investigating failures and evaluating the performance of geo-structures (Forensic Engineering)

Instrumentation and Monitoring

Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Planning and designing geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring programs for the specific objectives of the projects
• Installing instruments, logging data, and interpreting the collected data for evaluating geotechnical safety and performance, as well as, for using with Observational Method based design and construction
• Installing and monitoring a wide range of instruments such as piezometers, inclinometers, tiltmeters, deformation bench-marks, settlement cells, seepage meters, geophones, load cells, pressure cells, crack meters, and other instruments as needed 
• Developing new instruments as needed for specific applications

Foundations Analysis and Design

 Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Bearing capacity and deformation analysis for footings, rafts, piles, caissons, anchors, pile-rafts, diaphragms, shear-keys, and floating foundations
• Analysis of complex soil-structure and soil-structure-liquid interactions 
• Machine foundations
• Pile load tests, plate load tests, embankment load tests, proof rolling, and interpretation of the test results for developing the site-specific designs and verification of the models based on Observational Method
  
• Instrumentation and monitoring

Slope Stability Analysis and Landslide Remediation 

Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Stability analysis of natural and human-made slopes including excavations, embankments, dams, dykes, dumps and fills
• Design of shallow and deep open excavations, open pits, waste dumps, and high embankments including structural stability of rock masses as well as the general stability of soil, rock, ore, and waste masses
• Routine geotechnical survey and slope assessment  
• Advanced coupled stress-deformation, seepage, seismic, and limit-equilibrium analysis
• Design of alternative instability prevention and landslide remediation measures (45 methods available)
• Instrumentation, monitoring, and Observational Method based analysis and design

Excavations and Retaining Systems Analysis and Design

Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Evaluation of short-term stability of unsupported vertical and sloped excavation walls
• Design and monitoring of short-term shoring for excavations
• Analysis and design of long-term retaining systems such as concrete gravity walls, concrete cantilever walls, concrete diaphragm (slurry) walls, modular blocks, secant and tangent piles, steel sheet walls, timber walls, gabions, masonry walls, mesh and shotcrete stabilized soils, and Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining walls
• Evaluation and control of excavation-induced deformations to adjacent buildings and infrastructures, ground loss, and groundwater seepage
• Instrumentation, monitoring, advanced numerical modeling, and Observational Method based analysis and design

Ground Improvement

 Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Site investigation and characterization and development of site-specific knowledge required for optimizing ground improvement procedures 
• Design of geo-structures on, within, or with problematic soils and rocks
• Design and evaluation of ground improvement for soft soils, soft or fractured rocks, swelling and shrinking soils, collapsible soils, Karstic soils, liquefiable soils, thaw unstable soils, frost-susceptible soils, saline and acidic soils, and other problematic ground conditions
• Instrumentation, monitoring, advanced numerical modeling, and Observational Method based analysis and design

Advanced Modeling and Analysis

 We use advanced analytical analysis, numerical modeling, and laboratory modeling for:

• Seepage analysis and groundwater control
• Modeling of load-deformation, creep, and relaxation behavior of geomaterials, soil structures, soil-structure interactions, and soil-liquid interactions under various static, dynamic, and thermal loading and boundary conditions
• Staged construction modeling, Observational Method, and calibration of computerized models for predicting short and long-term behavior and stability
• Scenario-based risk analysis, geotechnical stability, and performance evaluation
• Risk analysis and development of site-specific and project-specific factors of safety and Limit States Design (LSD) load and resistance factors
• Optimizing the design of artificial geomaterials  such as soil-cement, RCC (Roller Compacted Concrete), plastic concrete, grout, shotcrete, light-weight fill, and recycled waste fill

Pavement Design

 Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides the design for:

• Pavement superstructures for rigid and flexible pavements in residential and industrial applications
• Mining haul roads and temporary dirt or gravel roads
• Concrete block pavements
• Helipads and airfields in problematic soils
• Proof rolling of paved roads 
• Geotechnical survey for roads and pavements

Permafrost and Frozen Ground Engineering

 Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering for frozen and partially frozen soils
• Geotechnical survey in frozen soils
• Determination of frost depth, frost heave, thaw settlement, and thaw instability
• Design of foundations, slopes, insulation systems, excavations, and retaining systems in permafrost
• Ground seepage control and temporary shoring using frozen cut-off wall
• More Permafrost and frozen ground engineering services

Forensic and Remedial Geotechnical Engineering

 Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides:

• Failure and mal-performance investigations including cracks, settlements, heaves, fire-induced and flood-induced damages, slope failures, foundation failures, and other geo-structure instability or general failures
• Design and conduct of specialty and unique field and laboratory testing to develop the accurate analytical knowledge required for forensic geotechnical engineering investigations
• Design of remedial solutions such as underpinning, mud-injection, grouting, dewatering, and construction of berms and retaining structures
• Forensic geotechnical engineering and expert witness services for litigations, insurance claims, and arbitration settlement procedures 
• Special designs for remediation or prevention of slope failures (45 methods available)
  

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Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd provides 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 centers and rural areas.

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:

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Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd is a professional member of APEGA (The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta), EGBC (Engineers and Geoscientists BC), APEGS (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan), CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission), ACSA (Alberta Construction Safety Association), and CGS (Canadian Geotechnical Society).