At United Inspection Services we are staffed and equipped to handle any size concrete or masonry project. All of our concrete masonry inspectors are certified ACI Concrete Field Technicians Level I and our lab personnel are ACI Strength Testing certified technicians.
United Inspection Services lab facility is well equipped to meet all your concrete and masonry needs and is certified by the Army Corp of Engineers. With a QC 150 digital compression machine and our expert inspection methods, we are capable of testing compression strengths of cylinders, cubes, grout prisms, masonry units, and flexural strength beams. Our walk-in temperature/humidity controlled curing room is capable of holding over 2000 concrete cylinders.
Below is a sampling of the testing United Inspection Services can provide:
Laboratory Tests
- Unit Weight of Aggregate
- Concrete Compression Testing
- Compressive Strength of Cylindrical Concrete
- Compressive Strength of Drilled Concrete Cores
- Compression and Absorption of Masonry Units
- Flexural Strength of Concrete
- Organic Impurities
- Soundness
- Water Retention
- Specific Gravity and Absorption of Fine and Course Aggregate
- Wet/Dry Durability
- Crushed Fragments
- L.A. Abrasion
- Sieve Analysis
- Clay Lumps and Friable Particles
- Scratch Hardness
Field Tests
- Batch Plant Inspection
- Concrete Placement inspection
- Slump of Concrete
- Air Content (Pressure and Volumetric)
- Unit Weight
- Sampling Freshly mixed Concrete
- Casting and Curing Concrete test Specimens
- Penetration resistance of Hardened Concrete (Windsor Probe)
- Concrete Coring
- Vapor Emissions
- Precast Plant Inspection
- Post Tension Inspection
