Geotechnical Services
AGES maintains strict measures to comply with international standards, providing designers valuable information for cost effective designs. It has time and again proved it’s reliability and quality on time that makes AGES the number one choice of local and international clients.
Subsurface/ Soil Investigation
- Complete Geotechnical Investigation
- Drilling of bornholes, onland and offshore for Piers, Ports & Harbors
- Dynamic Cone penetrometer test(DCPT)
- Plate load test
- Swedish Weight Sounding Test (SWST)
All of AGES’ drilling rigs are made from JAPAN.
Inland Drilling
Offshore Drilling
Drilling on slope
SPT Hammer Energy Calibration
ASTM D4633 – 10
EN ISO 22476-3
AGES is the only geotechnical company in the Philippines that calibrates all of its SPT hammers.
This optimizes saving benefits to Clients.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) recommends standardizing the measured SPT N value.
The SPT Analyzer measures the energy transferred into an instrumented SPT rod.
This permits the adjustment of the measured N- value to the normalized N60 for standard 60% energy transfer into the rods. Compensating for widely variable efficiencies from different SPT rigs and hammer types improves the reliability of soil strength estimates used in geotechnical designs.
BENEFITS
- Adjust SPT N-value to N60
- Improve reliability of SPT N-values
- Checks hammer energy
- Verify drilling rig performance for increased design confidence
Swedish Weight Sounding Test (SWST)
RECOGNIZED FIELD TEST NSCP 2010, TABLE 303-2
JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD (JIS)-A 1221
LOW COST IN-SITU SOIL TESTING FOR HOUSING PROJECTS
HOUSING projects are usually constrained with a smaller financial budget than other structures.
AGES provides an affordable soil testing alternative by introducing the Swedish Weight Sounding Test (SWST).
Widely use in Japan and some parts of Europe, the SWST is an in-situ soil testing apparatus that is an alternative or complimentary test to the Standard Penetration Test (SPT). Soil profiles are quickly obtained from the SWST providing invaluable information on the stratigraphy of the soil.
BENEFITS
- Portable, ideal for inaccessible regions
- Low-cost
- Fast
- Continuous soil-profile, every 0.25 meters
- Preliminary or complimentary test for SPT
- Direct correlation with SPT N-values
LIMITATION
No soil samples
