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Structures and materials

Whether you are a project owner, project manager or a construction company, we work alongside you to check the health and performance of your structures as well as the quality of the work carried out. Our experts act as a trusted technical third parties to certify your constructions and secure the progress of your projects. Our role is to ensure the smooth running of your project and minimise any adverse delay. Our teams have a very wide range of testing methods and tools at their disposal for precise and exhaustive assessment of your constructions (structure and materials). The size of our equipment fleet, spread across all of our agencies, allows us to be very responsive wherever the worksite.    

Structures – our methods

  • Pachometers
  • Concrete and geophysical radar
  • Ultrasonic tomography
  • Acoustic admittance
  • Impact-echo
  • Infrared thermography
  • Slostress®
  • Loading test
  • Ultrasound measurements

Materials – our methods

  • Corrosimetry measurements
  • Physico-chemical characterisation of concrete and masonry
  • Tests on steel and assemblies
  • Laboratory analyses for materials and coatings

Our methods are used for:

Diagnostics

• Determining the origin of the issue
• Assessing the extent and seriousness

Surveying of structures

• Recreating formwork plans
• Recreating reinforcement plans (active and passive)

Site contingencies and quality control

• Concreting faults (gravel nests, voids, delamination, etc.)
• Delamination at construction joints
• Faulty positioning of reinforcements
• Cracks
• Sealing faults
• Non-compliant composition of the concrete
• Coating faults