Check Out Insitutek’s New Ground Improvement Portfolio

Sep 17, 2024 | Compaction Control, Impact Rolling / High Energy Impact Compaction, Insitutek, Intelligent Compaction, Soil Stabilisation

Terra 3000 Clay Soil Stabilisation - application with soil stabiliser

We are delighted to officially announce our Ground Improvement portfolio.

For the last three years, we have been working on extending our offer from, just, in situ testing to testing and improving in situ conditions.

With our ground improvement portfolio, our focus is delivering more sustainable outcomes. Here is what we offer:

Part of what has driven this direction is our passion for using our business as a force for good. Here, we can have a more direct impact, delivering more sustainable ground improvement outcomes.

Underpinning our business is our desire to help our clients use modern ground improvement and in situ testing methods to increase rates of construction, lower cost, improve quality, reduce risk and reduce your environmental footprint.

Remember our core values:

We have always recognised part of our role is education so, if you’d like to find out more, let us know.

Typical questions we help answer include:

  1. How to increase compaction uniformity and eliminate under and over rolling
  2. How to increase placed loose lift thickness (even double) with standard vibratory rollers and then test compaction
  3. How to reduce time between testing and getting results – real time feedback
  4. How to have seamless data flow so we have close to real time feedback on performance with project / stakeholder wide visibility
  5. How to compact much deeper lifts and test the compaction integrity
  6. How to work with clay soils without removal and replacement and traditional stabilisation

If you have a project you’d like to explore the use of our ground improvement and in situ testing methods on, please reach out for a discussion.

After scouring the market, we settled on the PANDA DCP test equipment as it offered the technical capability and, moreover, the flexibility required to work in the restricted environment our project presented; overhead clearance typically at 1500mm but as low as 1200mm.  We had a unique problem that required a unique solution and that’s precisely what we found through the team at Insitutek and the PANDA equipment.  The ease of assembly, intuitive operability and compact nature of the equipment, made light of the numerous soundings we required across a widely dispersed area.

Bjorn Schultz

Project Manager, Solar Farm, Australia

We purchased a PANDA 2 machine after using one from another laboratory. The information obtained has saved money on numerous jobs. It is reasonably priced and the after-market service has been great. Highly recommend using Insitutek.

Brett McDonald

Department of Transport and Main Roads, QLD

FH is now routinely using the LWD with very good feedback and useful engineering data. The equipment is an easy to use Zorn LWD.

Laszlo Petho

Pavements Manager, Fulton Hogan

Insitutek Blogs

It’s always rewarding when we can bring both our “test” and “improve” capabilities to the same project.

This was the case with a recent case study for the application of TERRA-3000®, our clay soil stabilisation product in the City of Ballarat, VIC, which we tested using the Light Weight Deflectometer.

A bridge approach transition zone is the area where a road or railway track transitions from the rigid structure of a bridge to the flexible embankment or road pavement, aiming to minimize abrupt changes in stiffness and potential issues like differential settlement.

The 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG), held in Sydney, marked a milestone in the geotechnical and transportation engineering community. Organized by the UTS Transport Research Centre (UTS-TRC), this prestigious event brought together over 450 delegates from 30 countries, making it a truly global gathering for experts in the field.