Solroc has an experienced, multidisciplinary team and highly specialized equipment to offer high quality services.
Human Resources
SOLROC benefits from a multi-skilled, experienced workforce:
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- Geologists
- Professional engineers
- Geotechnicians
- Hydrogeologists
- Chemists
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- Biologists
- Environmental scientists
- Lab and field technicians
- CAD drafters
- Office personnel
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SEDIDRILL drilling unit
APAFOR drilling unit
Material Resources
SOLROC keeps all technical equipment and tools updated and guarantees a customized sampling quality and full compliance with Quebec government procedures and standards. Our clients can rely on:
- A versatile, unique, drilling unit able to access all kinds of buildings and enclosures to achieve complex environmental work
- The latest generation geotechnical drilling unit which includes real time drilling parameter recording, coring, and pressiometric testing
- A small digging machine KUBOTA
- A complete set of equipment for acquisition and treatment of seismic profile (refraction), surface waves (MASW) and downhole recording for VS30 determination
SOLROC also benefits from its own soil and building materials testing facilities using the latest generation equipment, thus enabling total control over analysis results regarding quality, deadlines, and costs. And this, whether it be for granulometry, concrete compression tests, pyrite or asbestos identification, or any other kind of testing.
Laboratory Equipment (partial list)
- 250 kNt concrete press
- Separators for aggregates
- Gilson TS-1 X and Rotap RX-29 Screeners
- Ovens (ovens) 7.2 cu.ft. and 12.l.c.
- Several scales (accuracy 0.1g)
- Cone and pestle (sand SSS)
- Pycnometer
- Immersion tanks
- Los Angeles device
- Micro-Deval device and accessories
- Molds and hammers with Proctor all sizes
- Shaving ruler, magnetic stirrer
- Precision stopwatch
- Apparatus for sedimentometry tests
- Dispersion mixer
- Complete set for the Atterberg limits
- Swedish cone
- Sulfur oven with molds
- Tanks for ripening
- Wet room with digital temperature and humidity recorder
- Three frames for soil consolidation tests
- Hygrometer for wood and concrete moisture
- Windsor Probe for non-destructive in-situ testing on hardened concrete
- A profometer to detect armatures
- Schmidt hammer for non-destructive in-situ testing on hardened concrete
Mobile Equipment
All SOLROC technicians are equipped with calibrated equipment, dedicated to measurements of soil compactness, granular backfill, and bituminous concretes. Technicians are able to provide the necessary advice to correct deficiencies and achieve the desired results.
These include:
- Six Troxler 3440 and 3450 nucleosensors
- Equipment for taking samples on fresh concrete (aerometer, drum, digital thermometers with memory, shovel, etc.)
- Scissometers for shear testing in clays
- In-situ tear test apparatus for hardened concrete and sealing membranes
- Infrared camera for inspection of bituminous mixes
SOLROC also has access to resources for the required tests on bituminous concrete.