Geotech Testing Services ( Pvt) Ltd, the company which introduced electronic pile testing techniques to Sri Lanka from 1996, has received ISO 9001 certification from the Sri Lanka Standards Institution.
The company progressively introduced successfully the increasingly complex and useful electronic pile testing systems as well as the analytical software, from the developers and manufacturers of the equipment Messrs.
Pile Dynamics Inc. of Ohio USA. Testing Methods and equipment of increasing complexity were introduced over the years commencing from the basic Pile Integrity Tester (PIT) to the Pile Dynamic Analyzer (PDA).
They are now well accepted and adopted in the construction Industry in Sri Lanka. Their value as a quality assurance tool and a means of optimizing the foundation designs have been proven without doubt.
This service has been responsible for upgrading the quality of piling works, undertaken in Sri Lanka by providing an economical and convenient quality assurance tool. Access to this facility is a boon to both the project developers as well as the piling contractors, by enabling the effective quality control of the piling operations and thereby minimizing the occurrence of defects.
The highly sophisticated and comprehensive data gathering facility provided by the different testing systems, introduced and deployed in many projects large and small, is of immeasurable value to the structural engineers designing the pile foundations systems due to the wealth of data recorded.
It is essential that the quality of the data and results generated by the testing techniques be accurate and reliable, to build up the confidence of the different stake holders, including project developers, consultants, piling contractors and approving agencies.
Geotech Testing Services ( Pvt) Ltd has laid great emphasis on this aspect, and has made sure that all equipment are of the latest models and are kept up to date in serviceability and valid calibration.
Geotech Testing Services is a member of the Geotech Group with the other members being Geotech( Pvt) Ltd the pioneering private sector Geo-technical Company in Sri Lanka and Group Engineering Laboratories ( Pvt) Ltd, laboratory service providers for the geotechnical and construction industry.
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