Dependable testing service — whenever and wherever it’s needed.
High-Quality, Timely Results
Our dedicated Materials Engineering Team provides high-quality, timely results for testing soils, concrete, aggregate, asphalt, ballast, and more.
Comprehensive Testing Capabilities
To ensure top-notch service, our Canadian Council of Independent Laboratories (CCIL)-certified labs and mobile solutions offer flexibility and efficiency.
We have five in-house labs across our regional offices certified by the CCIL. We also maintain mobile laboratories which can reduce delivery time and optimize project delivery.
Around-the-Clock Testing
We understand the importance of timely results and aligning testing schedules with material behaviour and project requirements. With our full-time, on-call dispatch, we will be there — day or night — to provide accurate, high-quality, and timely results.
The Clifton
Difference
Always Available. We are on call 24/7. By always being available, we can adapt to the ever-changing demands of job sites, providing reliable and dependable support to our clients. This prevents disruption to our clients' schedules, keeping projects moving forward smoothly and efficiently.
Materials Engineering Services
- Acid Solubility
- Base Atterberg – Plasticity Index of Fines in Aggregate
- California Bearing Ratio – CBR
- Cementing Value
- Clay Lumps
- Fineness Modulus
- Fractured Face Count
- Gradation Analysis
- Light Weight Pieces in Aggregates
- Los Angeles (LA) Abrasion
- Micro Deval
- Mill Abrasion
- Organic Impurities
- Petrographic Analysis
- Sand Equivalent Value
- Shape Factor
- Slake Durability and Maximum Vibrated Density (MVD)
- Soundness of Aggregate in Fine and Coarse
- Specific Gravity of Fine and Coarse Aggregates
- Unit Weight of Aggregates
- Alberta Transportation Inter Laboratory Repeatability Testing
- Bitumen Content by Reflux Extraction or Ignition
- Coating and Stripping Test of Asphalt on Aggregate
- Compaction by Nuclear Methods
- Core Processing for Thickness, Bulk Specific Gravity
- Field Coring Crew
- Full Properties Check, Marshall and Superpave
- Marshall Mix Design
- Marshall Stability and Flow
- Retained Stability
- Accelerated Curing and Testing of Concrete
- Adhesion Testing
- Bond Testing for Polymers and Concrete
- Compacted Concrete (RCC)
- Compressive Strength of 50 mm Mortar Cubes
- Compressive Strength of Concrete Cylinders and Cores
- Concrete Mix Design – Cast-in-Place and Roller Compacted Concrete
- Consistency Retention
- Detection of Alkali-Silica Reactive Aggregate by Expansion of Mortar Bar
- Dry Unit Weight of Concrete Cylinders
- Drying Shrinkage of Mortar and Concrete (Up to 28 mm Aggregates)
- Flexural Strength of Concrete and Roller
- Mortar Aggregate Ratio
- Pull Out Testing of LOK Bolts
- Resistance of Unconfined Coarse Aggregate to Freezing and Thawing
- Atterberg Limits
- California Bearing Ratio – CBR
- Confined Compressive Strength – Triaxials
- Consolidations
- Direct Shear
- Group Index
- Inorganic Soil Chemistry SCC (CA/FA/Sands)
- Laboratory Vane Shear
- Organic Content of Soils
- Particle Size Analysis – Hydrometer
- Permeability – Constant Head, Falling Head, and Flexible Wall
- Resistivity – Soils and Granular
- Soil pH
- Specific Gravity of Soils
- Standard and Modified Proctors – Cohesive and Non-Cohesive
- Tempe Cell Test
- Unconfined Compressive Strength – UCS
- Unified Soils Classification – USC
- Unit Weight of Undisturbed Samples
- Wash Sieve – Percent Passing #200
- Water Content
- Water Soluble Sulfates
Materials Engineering Technical Experts
What inspires me is that our team embraces growth and new technologies. I love to teach and pass my technical knowledge to my colleagues and co-op students and help them find their own career paths. I am motivated by my continued connection with past students as they become valued colleagues and clients of the future.
Tony Lai
Calgary Materials Lead
