In Situ Testing – enabling you to make better informed timely decisions

Overview

Insitutek carefully curate our suite of offerings to bring you the best, high quality, leading edge products and services available that you can count on for testing in situ conditions for geotechnics, earthworks and pavements.

In situ testing applications include site investigation, compaction control, bearing capacity, geotechnical drilling, asphalt pavement non destructive testing, concrete pavement non destructive testing and condition assessments for rail ballast & formations, pavements and bridge decks & structures.

Our leading edge in situ testing methods for geotechnics, earthworks and pavements enable you to make better informed timely decisions compared to traditional methods:

  • Fasterย โ€“ reduced time to test and get results (results are typically available real time so decisions can be made straight away
  • More representativeย โ€“ focused on measuring the fundamental design parameters in the field (comparing like with like)
  • Accurateย andย repeatable
  • Non destructiveย โ€“ overcoming damage and rectification costs and subsequent issues (think key hole surgery vs open heart surgery)
  • Without errors
    • Equipment is instrumentedย โ€“ data is automatically and accurately recorded
    • Results are machine producedย โ€“ overcoming manual data recording, transposition or calculation errors and fictitious results
  • GPS located and time stampedย โ€“ know where and when every test is done
  • Visually presented resultsย (e.g. graphical)
  • Improved safety
  • Cost effectiveย โ€“ efficient operation, typically one person

By enabling you to understand the value our products and services bring, Insitutek help our clients use modern in situ testing methods to increase rates of construction, lower cost, improve quality, reduce risk and reduce your environmental footprint.

Applications include: sealed and unsealed roads, bridges, cuttings, tunnels, embankments, railway track beds, concrete & asphalt pavements, airport runways and taxiways, hard stands, landfill sites, dams including mine tailings storage facilities (TSF’s), renewable energy (wind farms & solar farms), commercial, residential and industrial land development, building foundations, temporary works platforms, pipe & cable trenches, electricity pylons / overhead transmission, tank farms etc.

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Asphalt Tester ZORN AT 2.0 Jobsite

Asphalt Pavement Non Destructive Testing (NDT)

  • Establish asphalt pavement deterioration and current conditions including on bridge decks
  • During construction, check compaction is uniform and sufficient, asphalt thickness is known and the depth is uniform and verify we can safety open the pavement to traffic
Piling Rig Working Platform Assessment for Compaction Bearing Capacity

Bearing Capacity

  • Measure the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground.
  • Assess the maximum average contact pressure between the foundation and the soil which should not produce shear failure.
  • Test in situ applications including temporary works platforms for mobile crane pads or piling rigs, building and temporary structure foundations, tank farms and pavements.
Vรถlkel Intelligent Compaction Roller Schematic

Compaction Control

  • Measure the level of stiffness of the formation for unbound or partially bound layers (sub-grade, sub-base, base) and for asphalt layers.
  • Being able to get results immediately enables you can make data backed decisions on the spot.
Concrete Laying Dowel bars

Concrete Pavement Non Destructive Testing (NDT)

  • Bridge decks and bridge structure condition assessments
  • During construction, check concrete thickness, depth uniformity and the precise positioning and alignment of steel work (dowels, tie bars and re-enforcement)
Grizzly DPSH VIC Workshop

Geotechnical Drilling

  • Light weight compact portable rigs used for geotechnical drilling and soil sampling
  • Combined with Dynamic Probing
Geo-endoscopy-detail (1)

Rail Formation & Ballast Condition Assessment

  • Providing reliable insightful geotechnical data for rail formation and ballast condition assessment including ballast fouling
  • Assess both mechanical and physical properties of the existing ballast and formation (subgrade and sub ballast layers)
  • Used for planning rail track maintenance, renewal and upgrade
Midi CPT Crawler A.P. van den Berg

Site Investigation

  • Scan and characterise the grounds physical properties on site using innovative in situ site investigation methods
  • To design earthworks and foundations for proposed structures and for repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface conditions, you will need to do some site investigation.
  • Check site conditions, get immediate results and take soil samples.

Trusted by our clients

Select Plant Hire (Laing O'Rourke)
WANT Geotechnics
Wakefield Regional Council
CMW Geosciences
LBS Engineering
Protest Engineering
Red Earth Engineering
WSP Australia
Boom Logistics
Global Engineering & Construction
MPC Kinetic
South 32
Future Generations
Senversa
RJE Global
Macquarie Geotechnical
Life of Mine Engineering
Kleinfelder

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