E-mail: info@a-mtesting

Website: www.a-mtesting.com

At A&M we are determined to be the best in our field, with over 20 years experience in the investigation of structures and structural elements, we have refined the approach to a ‘one-stop shop’ for most eventualities. We do not profess to know it all!!, but we have probably worked with people who do! It is more a case of being able to network the skills available in the market, that has given us a commercial advantage, which we feel we can pass on to our clients.

E-mail: info@allied-associates.co.uk

Website: www.allied-associates.co.uk

Allied Associates Geophysical Ltd is Europe’s largest supplier of equipment to the Geophysical and NDT markets, offering sales and rental of a wide range of instrumentation. For many years geophysical instruments have been used in assessing structural defects as the techniques are non-destructive and recent advances in instrument design have extended the engineer’s ability to accurately determine location, type and extent of defects in the built environment. Recent introductions are the Handy Scan, and Structure Scan 11 products, manufactures by GSSI, North Salem USA. These new radar systems will be on display at Structural Faults and Repair.

E-mail: info@balvac.co.uk

Website: www.balvac.co.uk

Balvac is a world class specialist infrastructure strengthening, repair and refurbishment contractor. Our fully trained staff have the required skills to complete complex and demanding structural repair works on any scale, from a few thousand pounds to several millions, all with the assurance of safety quality and the environment backed by ISO 9002 and ISO 14001.

E-mail: mail@bersche-rolt.co.uk

Website: www.bersche-rolt.co.uk

Bersch-Rolt design and install masonry reinforcement systems for the repair and strengthening of damaged houses and masonry arch bridges. Stainless Steel reinforcement is installed in the brickwork, by cutting away bed joint mortar or drilling holes below the surface, and bonding stainless steel bars with fixed locating spacers in place special mortars. The principle of the design is that the bars are positioned so that they work in tension and combine with the masonry to form beams in the outer, and also if required the inner, leaves of external walls. This method of strengthening damaged structures offers savings in costs, disruption to traffic or tenants, and fixed priced contracts for accurate financial planning.

E-mail: info@bre.co.uk

Website: www.bre.co.uk

BRE Testing & Consultancy has extensive experience of materials behaviour and structural performance. This means we can provide a comprehensive appraisal and assessment service for all types of structures. This includes:

• Forensic investigation of problems during and after construction
• Condition surveys using non-destructive appraisal techniques such as sub-surface radar and remote laser systems
• In-situ structural assessment using static and dynamic testing techniques to characterise the behaviour of structures
• Laboratory testing of construction materials and structural components for durability, strength and serviceability performance.
• Advanced numerical and analytical modelling for reliability and risk analysis

BRE Testing & Consultancy advise on remedial measures that take account of the whole-life cost of future maintenance and the life expectancy of the structure.

E-mail: sales@brookesnorthern.co.uk

Website: www.brookesnorthern.co.uk

Brookes are actively involved in the installation of cathodic protection systems, on an international basis. Brookes are involved with many other aspects of civil and building refurbishment such as specialist concrete repairs, waterproofing, composite strengthening, window replacement and the application of high performance coatings. Brookes also specialise in working in tough or sensitive environments such as chemical works, nuclear power stations and occupied blocks of flats.

E-mail: cintec@aol.com

Website: www.cintec.com

The Cintec Anchor System is a versatile method of structural reinforcement, designed to the specific requirements of each strengthening and repair project. The system comprises a reinforcing member surrounded by a fabric sleeve. Once installed into the diamond-drilled holes, the anchor is inflated with a cementitious grout to expand into the shapes and spaces within the structure. This provides a mechanical band that dispenses with the need for unsightly patress plates on the building exterior achieving invisible mend.

Email: mail@concreteengineering.com

Website: www.concreteengineering.com

Concrete Engineering (previously Concrete Engineering International) is a quarterly magazine from Palladian Publications Ltd, publishers of World Cement, World Coal, Hydrocarbon Engineering, and World Pipelines.

The magazine publishes a wide range of technical articles which deal with every aspect of concrete design, construction, maintenance and repair. The new format introduced in this year’s Spring issue does not detract from the quality and importance of the articles and reviews that have been specially commissioned from many of the industry’s leading experts and authorities. Typical recent topics covered include: bridges, flyovers, viaducts and footbridges; concrete in hostile environments;

formwork; admixtures; concrete roads and paving; concrete repairs, cathodic protection, and high rise construction. Coming issues will consider concrete above and below ground, fixings, joints and sealants, pumping techniques, ready mixed concrete and much, much more.

Concrete Engineering is best summed up in the words of one of its most avid readers, a Director in a firm of Consulting Engineers, "Concrete Engineering has added a new dimension to the technical journals available. The mix of new build techniques and methods of dealing with maintenance and repair sits well together"

Website: www.concreterepair.org.uk

The UK Concrete Repair Association (CRA) will be featuring its ‘Standard Method of Measurement for Concrete Repair’ and its Members Directory. The method of Measurement document is designed to facilitate clearer Bills of Quantity and the Members Directory lists all the UK’s established specialist concrete contractors and product manufacturers. As with all CRA publications, both are available free of charge. The CRA was formed in 1989 to set high standards of workmanship and technical competence. Each full specialist contractor and product manufacturer member must be able to demonstrate a proven track record and overall ability, is obliged to br Q.A accredited to BS EN ISO 9001 or 9002, and comply with the Association’s Codes of Practice and Training requirements.

E-mail: info@concrete-repairs.co.uk

Website: www.concrete-repairs.co.uk

Concrete Repairs Ltd is one of the leading concrete repair contractors in the UK with over 45 years experience in the industry. We provide a professional and comprehensive nationwide service, which includes condition surveys, traditional concrete repair techniques, composite strengthening, and corrosion control systems. We provide a complete design and install service for composite strengthening using a variety of installation techniques and materials. Our corrosion control systems include cathodic protection using impressed current or sacrificial anodes, corrosion inhibitors, realkalisation and chloride extraction.

Website: www.concreterepair.org.uk

Corrosion of embedded steel, through the action of de-icing salts, airborne sea salts and salts cast into the concrete at the construction stage, is arguably the most serious cause of deterioration of reinforced concrete structures. Cathodic protection (CP) is becoming well established and increasingly accepted as the practical long-term solution to the problem. The Corrosion Prevention Association (CPA) was set up in 1993 to increase the awareness of CP as a means of monitoring and rehabilitating chloride induced corrosion in reinforced concrete. The Association represents the leading consultants, contractors and material suppliers engaged in cathodic protection projects and other electrochemical remediation techniques. The CPA’s Monographs on various aspects of the subject will be available free of charge.

E-mail: chris.irvin@dywidag.co.uk

Website: www.dywidag-systems.com

DYWIDAG – Systems International are specialist suppliers of geotechnical and post-tensioning products and services.

• Ground Anchors (temporary or permanent, complying with BS8081) ; Threadbar anchors (up to 2217kN); strand anchors (up to 8100kN); multi-stage anchors, with staged bond lengths for weak ground.
• Soil Nails, Rock Bolts, Mini Piles: Gewi-Steel Threadbar (plain, galvanised or factory pregrouted)
• MAI Hollow Bar: A self-drilling hollow bar used for soil nails, mini piles or temporary anchors.
• Stressing and Testing Services: On-site acceptance testing and monitoring; equipment hire.

Current projects include: CTRL, Sunderland Metro, GLA, M50 Dublin, Tay Wastewater Treatment Works.

E-mail: chris@georentals.co.uk

Website: www.georentals.co.uk

Geomatrix Earth Science Ltd offer a comprehensive specialist instrument rental service to NDT, concrete and civil engineering contractors. Currently the innovative ‘Conquest’ ground penetrating radar developed by Sensors & Software Inc of Canada, is being introduced into the UK. This system allows high resolution imaging of concrete thickness and enclosed reinforcement.

E-mail: s.koning@elsevier.nl

Website: www.elsevier.com

Elsevier Science is market leader in the publication and dissemination of literature covering the broad spectrum of science including the growing field of Structural Faults & Repair. Supplementing our traditional paper are new CD-ROM and web-based products specifically designed for the Structural Engineering community.

E-mail: John-Bowry@burmahcastrol.com

Website: www.fosrocuk.com

Fosroc is one of the world’s major manufacturers of advanced technology products for construction and civil engineering. For over 60 years, Fosroc has built a substantial reputation in a wide range of product fields, such as: concrete repair and protection, Joint sealants, and fillers, waterproofing materials, grouts and anchors, and admixtures. Product excellence is matched by total commitment to quality, innovation and service.

E-mail: info@freyssinet.co.uk

Website: www.freyssinet.co.uk

Freyssinet enjoys a worldwide reputation in specialist construction techniques, the range of services offered by Freyssinet in the UK are:

• Construction: post-tensioning building, cable stays, bearings, joints, STUs, high tensile bars.
• Geotechnics: Reinforced earth company TerraClass retaining wall systems, TerraTrel retaining wall systems, TerraBlock reinforced block wall, and TechSpan precast concrete arch system, ground anchors, soil nails, bar anchors.
• Repair and strengthening: post-tensioning, concrete repairs, bearing replacement, lifting/jacking/propping, TFC(carbon fibre), plate bonding, cathodic protection, advitamin, coating/silane, resin/grout injection, slab connectors, wax injection

E-mail: rmcglynn@fsm.fugro.co.uk

Website: www.fsm.fugro.co.uk

Fugro Structural Monitoring undertakes all aspects of measurement, analysis and testing of engineering structures in service. FSM have extensive experience in measuring the behaviour of bridges, building, tunnels, retaining walls etc. Permanent and temporary systems are supplied based on strain gauges, inclinometers, electrolevels, convergence rings etc. These systems often include automatic data collection, wireless telemetry and built in alarms. A recent development has been the design and successful operation of a 5 kN horizontal shaker for the modal testing of the London Millennium footbridge

E-mail: peter@fyfeco.com

Website: www.fyfeco.com

Fyfe Co LLC has been involved in research and development, as well as the implementation of structural composite retrofit using FRP composites for over 13 years in the United States. We offer complete composite design assistance, feasibility studies, and budgeting at no obligation to the practicing engineer. Fyfe Co LLC provides a wide range of materials and installation types to satisfy many project specific requirements that arise.

E-mail: mike-owen@pncl.com

Website: www.hammond-concrete.co.uk

Hammond Concrete Services, Hire and Sell the large range of innovative in-situ NDT Concrete and Masonry testing equipment from Europe and the USA – James Instruments Inc. Chicago. Following on from the European Concrete Building Project they are providing structural engineers with equipment that gives the user a 30% cost saving. Included in current "Best Practice Guides" is the Lok Tester (concrete compressive strength tester for early striking of formwork) that has been used extensively at Canary Wharf and other new building projects. Other cost saving equipment includes, overhead lighting, Russian ultrasonic equipment, endoscopes and relative humidity meters.

E-mail: info@helifix.co.uk

Website: www.helifix.co.uk

Helifix has developed a range of high performance, one-piece, stress-free, stainless steel walls ties, fixings and masonry repair and reinforcement products which are fully tested and proven. Helifix purpose designed remedial products, and specially developed sympathetic repair techniques, provide permanent cost-effective solutions to practically every situation where masonry has cracked and failed and are effective in virtually all construction materials. Helifix products, individually or in combination, rapidly and economically restore full integrity to all types of masonry structures, from houses and tower blocks to bridges and historic churches, causing minimal disruption to the original fabric and avoiding costly taking down and rebuilding.

E-Mail: bonnsea@hilti.com

Website: www.hilti.com/gb

The Hilti Group is a world leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing value-added, top quality products for professional customers in the construction industry and in building maintenance. Our product offering covers drilling and demolition tools, diamond coring, cutting and sawing systems, direct fastening systems and special anchors, construction chemicals, installation and laser positioning systems as well as cutting and sanding tools. Hilti operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. We are committed to excellence in innovation, total quality, direct customer relationships and effective marketing. At the exhibition you will be able to see Hilti’s Ferroscan rebar detectorand a demonstration of post-installed reinforcement bar featuring Hilti’s new RE500 High Strength injectable mortar.

E-mail: steve.brittain@hydratight.com

Website: www.boltup.com

Hevilifts, a division of Hydratight Sweeny Ltd, are market leaders in all aspects of engineering:

• Specialist Contracting: Hevilifts undertake sub-contracts worldwide in jacking, propping and sliding of structures.
• Special Designs: Hevilifts have designed bespoke jacks and jacking systems which have matched customers’ requirements with cost effective solutions.
• Hire: Hevilifts have the largest rental fleet in Europe, comprising of over 6000 items.
• Monitoring and Control Systems: A jacking control system developed as a semi permanent system, monitoring stress, strain, load and movement in structures.
• Stressing and Tensioning: Hevilifts have designed systems for stressing and tensioning strand, bar and bolts on varied projects worldwide.
• Bolt Load Measurement: Hevilifts offer permanent monitoring or periodic monitoring of bolted connectors during and after loading.

E-mail: info@inspectahire.com

Website: www.inspectahire.com

Inspectahire operates throughout the UK and Europe, exploiting the potential of fibre optics, both instruments and sensors, to provide minimal access visual inspection and monitoring. We hire, sell and contract. We supply fibre products and services which monitor your structure/asset: SOFO (smart optical fibre sensors) investigate/locate the defect, manage the data, and transmit it to any location in the world. We develop remote intervention systems so that large assets such as tanks, bridge viods, chimneys, HVAC ducts, hydro power station tunnels can be surveyed, measured and managed.

E-mail: michelew@instarmac.co.uk

Website: www.instarmac.co.uk

Specialist manufacturer of highway maintenance and concrete repair products, Instarmac Group plc has been providing innovative and effective solutions to construction and maintenance problems for almost 25 years. The Ultracrete brand delivers specialist highways maintenance products for many applications such as granite set repointing, kerb installation, and anti-skid coating repair, including high strength, rapid set mortars which are unique to the market place. The CEMTEC brand comprises concrete repair materials for civil engineering as well as industrial flooring applications.

E-mail: b.gardiner@llewellyn.co.uk

Website: www.llewellyn.co.uk

Llewellyn Stonecare Ltd are one of the UK leading specialists in concrete repair, structural strengthening, and electrochemical treatments. With over 35 years experience on the refurbishment of bridge structures and buildings, the company can provide expert advice on repair options backed with a national resource to undertake works up to £1.5 million.

E-mail: marketing@makers.co.uk

Website: www.makers.co.uk

Makers has been repairing defective reinforced concrete for over 25 years and is the largest contractor in Europe in this field. The company has developed an innovative and cost effective service to clients based on correctly diagnosing problems with reinforced concrete and then providing economical and durable solutions. The solutions in the form of proven concrete repair techniques are all part of the Makers Concrete Repair Tool Box, and by careful and considered use the client can benefit from Makers’ years of technical and contracting experience. Other areas of structural faults and repair are carried out by Makers Civil Engineering Repair Division, in particular, the external strengthening of bridges and other structures by the application of steel or carbon fibre plates and wrap. Makers is a subsidiary company of the international specialist civil engineering Keller Group Plc.

E-mail: nadia.seeraram@malags.se

Website: www.malags.com

MALA GeoScience is a leading manufacturer of innovative Ground Penetrating Radar systems, designed to meet the needs of engineers, contractors and geoscientists. The company has over 60 years of experience in product research and development.

MALA GeoScience’s RAMAC/GPR systems have proven to be some of the most modular, flexible, rugged and affordable systems on the market today. GPR in many cases is the only practical non-destructive method available to perform concrete and bridge deck testing, to investigate building structures or else to locate non-metallic on non-conductive utilities. The RAMAC/GPR systems can be interfaced seamlessly with GPS systems for GIS applications.

Acclaimed the ‘Best of British’ by the Prime Minister during the presentation of the Millennium Product Awards, our system of repairing and strengthening masonry structures certainly lives up to its reputation. Numerous highway and railway bridges and retaining walls have been refurbished without the owners and travelling public being inconvenienced in any way. Due to the efficiency of the system our prices have remained competitive giving clients visible evidence of ‘value for money’. Our open pricing policy enables clients to compare rates ensuring that we are truly competitive. No doubt by now you will be aware of the ‘MARS’ system through our extensive marketing or maybe from a colleague who has first hand experience of our work. In any event, if you are planning to repair or strengthen an ‘old’ masonry structure give us a call, it may be worth your while.

E-mail: sam.beamish@maunsell.com

Website: www.maunsell.com

Now part of the AECOM group, Maunsell is an international civil and structural engineering consultancy with a reputation for innovation. Maunsell’s maintenance and repair group is recognised for the comprehensive service it provides for infrastructure management. With a strong materials bias, the group also advises on new construction issues and provides support in legal disputes. Maunsell actively promotes a preventive maintenance strategy for structures. The key to this low-cost strategy is selective testing and diagnosis, coupled with risk analysis to optimise the repair strategy. Experienced specialists advise on appropriate repair systems for all forms of construction, offering whole-life cost-effective solutions.

E-mail: ian.wilson@mbt.com

Website: www.mbtfeb.co.uk & www.degussa.com

Degussa Construction Chemicals is the world’s largest supplier of construction chemicals. Its global decentralised structure means each local business has free access to the group’s technology and know-how. In the UK, Degussa Construction Chemicals trades as MBT Feb. the company supplies a broad range of premium branded products to the UK’s civil engineering sector, with products for structural faults and repair including:

• MBrace and Kevlar composite strengthening systems
• Thoro cathodic protection systems
• MBT concrete admixtures

E-mail: ariane.duncan@mouchel.com

Website: www.mouchel.com

Mouchel is a leading multi-disciplinary consultancy, providing whole life services to infrastructure owners and operators worldwide. Our commitment to customers is based on over 100 years of engineering excellence. At our stand we will show a life-size sample of a new, lightweight and independent decking and flooring system which is made from pultruded, multi-cell and prismatic advanced composites profiles. It can be used for bridges and other building structures to build a complete optimised decking system or as redecking for existing structures.

E-mail: phil@naturalcement.co.uk

Website: www.naturalcement.co.uk

Natural Cement Distribution Ltd manufactures and supplies concrete repair and anti-carbonation coatings that have no cementitious equal in the prevention of corrosion. The products’ resistance to chemicals and salts ensures that structures protected and repaired with Natural Cement Distributions Ltd materials have a greatly extended life. Tests carried out at Leeds University CEMU by the late Professor Joe Cabrera and Dr Khaled Hassan have indicated that they offer protection up to 15 times greater than polymermodified concrete repair materials and four times greater than 50 Mpa concrete. The same basic material is also used to manufacture fast setting shotcretes and high penetration grouts.

E-mail: jrw@pacuk.co.uk

Website: www.pacuk.co.uk & www.impact-echo.com

Physical Acoustics Group is the world’s largest Acoustic Emission company providing condition assessment, continuous monitoring and defect location services on concrete and steel bridges and other structures. Recent projects include the permanent installation of a condition monitoring system on the suspension cables of the Ben Franklin suspension bridge in Philadelphia, USA, to remotely monitor for the occurrence and location wire failure. Physical Acoustics have recently started providing Impact Echo testing services for the assessment of concrete and masonry structures. These services include thickness measurements of members and slabs, crack depth measurement and detection of voids in post tension tendon ducts.

E-mail: info@protovale.co.uk

Website: www.protovale.co.uk

Protovale Oxford Ltd, manufacturers of high quality rebar locators, tendon duct locators and covermeters, will be showing a prototype of their new detachable datalogger. The advantages of the detachable datalogger are as follows. Firstly, when transferring data to a computer, only the logger needs to be taken into the office – the covermeter can remain on site and continue to be used for bar location and cover measurement. Secondly, the datalogger can be attached to either the original CM5, CM9 or CM52 CoverMaster covermeters – no need to buy a new one! The operation and price of our current covermeters are unaffected. A prototype datalogger will be on show at the exhibition.

E-mail: jack.elliott@soundprint.com

Website: www.soundprint.com

Pure Technologies Ltd has developed a number of award winning infrastructure-monitoring products. SoundPrint is a patented innovative monitoring technology that can detect and locate failures in high-tensile steel wire, strand or cable. Whether these materials are used in post-tensioned structures and prestressed concrete pipes, or as a primary supporting elements in cable-stayed or suspension bridges, they can fail without any external evidence, leading to a structural deficiency. SoundPrint acoustic monitoring has been used on numerous bridges and pipelines in Europe and North America.

Quickseal Specialist Contractors has expanded to become one of the leading companies specialising in the repair, strengthening and protection of reinforced concrete and masonry structures. The company offers a wide range of services including:

• Sprayed concrete for structural repair and strengthening using hand-held and robotic equipment.
• Application of polymer modified mortar for patch repairs.
• Strengthening of structures using banded carbon fibre strips and wrapping techniques.
• Water infiltration control using the RASCOR flexible injection system.
• Hydro-demolition, both manual and robotic, to remove defective concrete.
• Railfix systems to minimise vibration and thereby reduce structural deterioration.
• Application of protective coatings and corrosion inhibitions.

E-mail: sales@reel.co.uk

Website: www.reel.co.uk

Research Engineers are the market leaders in Structural and Finite Element analysis software for buildings, bridges and a variety of other structures. Import your structure from AutoCAD or generate the structure with our user-friendly interface. Analyse the structure to determining critical conditions or limitations and then determine section sizes and bar arrangements. User friendly and low cost, STAADpro provides a fully integrated link between Structural Analysis, RC Design to ACI, BS8110, BS8007 etc and fully automated AutoCAD RC detailing.

Website: www.rtd.nl

Established in 1937, Rontgen Technische Dienst bv, known throughout the world as RTD, is an independent organisation, specialising in non-destructive testing. It provides specialised inspection services for all types of industry on behalf of manufacturers, owners, engineering contractors, administrations and governments. RTD’s NDT consists of more than 60 NDT methods, of which the most common are Ultrasonic, Magnetic, and X-ray testing. RTD has developed new NDT techniques such as Long Range Ultrasonics and Pulsed Eddy Current systems.

E-mail: michael@smartfibres.com

Website: www.smartfibres.com

Materials can be made ‘smart’ by the inclusion of Smart Fibres. Smart fibres are optical fibres that feel the strain of the structure across a network of predefined measurement locations. The advantages over conventional strain gauges are embeddability, massively reduced cabling, multiplexing, intrinsic safety, and immunity to RFI and many other environmental factors. Applications for structural health monitoring and materials testing are currently across a wide range of industries including, civil engineering, maritime, aerospace and power generation. A range of techniques have been used to embed and surface mount the optical fibre to concrete, composite and metal structures. Smart fibres offers the following: engineering consultancy on-site and in-house; array installation, with monitoring and data analysis supplied at appropriate intervals; sensor array and opto-eletronic hardware manufacture and installation. Smart Fibres also enters into joint projects with key players in industries to develop applications.

Website: www.sca.org.uk

The Sprayed Concrete Association (SCA) represents leading contracting and manufacturing companies engaged in sprayed concrete. Sprayed concrete exhibits certain properties that in some respects makes it superior to poured concrete. This enables it to be used in a wide variety of constructions particularly those that are free-formed, e.g. swimming pools, landscaping, zoo structures, theme parks, etc. It is also used for new construction, underground construction, water-retaining structures, protective coatings, strengthening and repair. More information can be found in ‘An introduction to sprayed concrete’, which is freely available from the Association.

E-mail: gareth.jones@stats.co.uk

Website: www.stats.co.uk

STATS is a consultancy practice, with allied testing and inspection services, which specialises in environmental issues; ground engineering; materials used in construction; and built structures. The Structures division provides specialist consultancy, investigation, testing, evaluation and design services in the fields of buildings, structures, structural repair and construction and building materials for:

• Pre-divestment & pre-acquisition of property assets.
• Infrastructure & building maintenance
• Refurbishment of buildings & structures
• Repair of concrete.

• Structural investigation & assessment
• Materials science & engineering

• Bridge inspection, testing & assessment
• Post-tensioned bridge investigations.
• Radar surveys of engineering structures & buildings.
• High Alumina Cement (HAC) identification
• Alkali-aggregate reaction & thaumasite identification.
• Structural load tests.
• Maintenance & repair of multi-storey concrete car parks.
• Performance & durability of building materials.
• Natural stone & slates used in construction.
• Heritage & historic building materials.

Quality Assurance: UKAS accreditation (Testing No 0278) for materials sampling, in situ and laboratory testing.

E-mail: m.anderson@strainstall.co.uk

Website: www.strainstall.com

Strainstall have provided a specialist load measurement and stress analysis services to many industries for over 35 years. Strainstall assist civil engineering managers and designers with structural monitoring and analysis problems:

• Structural health monitoring systems for real-time monitoring of structural loading status as installed at Jiangyin Bridge, China
• Static and dynamic load testing of bridges etc.
• Long/short term monitoring of deflection, displacement, movement, strain and crack movement. Site/remote data acquisition. Fatigue life monitoring systems.
• In situ stress determination by concrete coring/slotting, post-tensioned tendon load determination, through thickness stress determination.
• Load Cells and Instrumentation

E-mail: sts@stsltd.co.uk

Website: www.stsltd.co.uk

Structural Testing Services Ltd provides specialist structural and geophysical investigation services to the civil engineering and building industries throughout the UK. The company’s clients include consulting engineers, construction companies and the public sector. Structural investigations range from applications such as concrete condition, structural details, and integrity of structures for car parks, bridges, reservoirs, etc to void detection, load capacity and foundation investigations. All surveys are carried out using a number of highly specialised as well as standard techniques. Having completed a three year European collaboration project into the use of radar for the investigation of man made structures, STS has recently embarked on a further European research project, in partnership with the BRE and other key industrial groups, into the development of an innovative ground penetrating radar system with target recognition capabilities.

E-mail: steveo@testconsult.co.uk

Website: www.testconsult.co.uk

Testconsult Ltd are an independent company providing a wide range of specialist testing services to support the building and civil engineering industry world-wide.

We have departments with the following expertise:

• Structural testing & instrumentation
• Geophysics
• Pile testing
• Materials testing.
• Equipment design and sales.

Testconsult Ltd offers:

• Independence and impartiality
• Speed of response to meet your needs
• Quality and cost effective services
• Skill and experience in solving your problems.

E-mail: m.forde@ed.ac.uk

The University of Edinburgh, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering offers specialist NDT investigation and expert witness services. Areas of expertise include digital impulse radar surveys, sonic NDT techniques, infra-red thermography and ultrasonic surveys. Members of staff have undertaken NDT surveys on full scale structures such as post-tensioned concrete bridges, masonry arch bridges, concrete tunnel linings in Europe, concrete floors, old foundations and piled foundations. Expert witness services have been provided for a range of issues including court cases and arbitrations from topics ranging from earthworks to silo collapses to fires in Scotland, England, Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa

E-mail: brianmiller@hi-rope.com

Website: www.hi-rope.com

Market leaders in industrial rope access techniques, Web Access provides equipment and personnel across a broad range of inspection, repair and maintenance projects complicated by high, or remote, access problems. With our self-contained and multi-disciplined teams of technicians, Web Access provides a combination of access solutions with competent and qualified tradesman, either as a standalone service or as part of an integrated workforce alongside more conventional labour. Web Access supports and partners a wide range of civil engineering, power generation, government and local authorities, chemical and petrochemical groups, transport and communications and defence contractors, to name but a few.

E-mail: hansard.tony@aol.com

Website: www.weber-sbd.com

Weber SBD represents Weber Building Solution in the UK and Ireland. The group is an international manufacturer of building mortars with factories throughout Europe, the Far East and South America. In the UK and Ireland, weber sbd has established its position over more than 50 years as a leading manufacturer of construction products. The range includes concrete repair solutions, non-shrink grouts, epoxy and polyester adhesives, waterproofing and flooring products. Last year, major new innovations in the field of composite strengthening led to the launching of the sbd brand Enforce range of carbon fibre, glass fibre and aramid strengthening options. The company also provides Facades Systems with Eglinton external wall insulation and Snowcem decorative finishes and tiling systems with its Howtex brand.

E-mail: wendyhiggs@weeks.co.uk

Website: www.weeks.co.uk

The WEEKS Group plc is a leading multi-disciplinary engineering/environmental consultancy and materials testing house, incorporating WEEKS Consulting Ltd and WEEKS Laboratories Ltd. WEEKS undertakes comprehensive testing and diagnostic surveys of buildings, bridges and other structures to determine the extent of any problems occurring and to advise on effective repair solutions. We are able to provide detailed assessment of options available and specifications for remedial or alteration works. Testing services are undertaken in-house by our materials laboratories, ensuring a responsive service and high standard of data collection. Our structural investigation consulting and testing service provides clients with the benefit of a single source for any structural project or problem.

E-mail: said.elbelbol@wsatkins.com

Website: www.wsatkins.com

WS Atkins can provide expertise in the management and rehabilitation of structures, with over 20 years experience of providing cost effective solutions to protect and repair bridges, car parks, buildings, industrial, marine and other structures. We offer a tailor-made service to meet our clients’ business needs, ranging from brief inspection and defects diagnosis to long-term strategic portfolio management, from economic modelling to innovative predictive methodologies, from advanced repair technologies to demolition and rebuild. We are leaders in the field of cathodic protection (CP), currently managing well over two-thirds by size of all CP installations throughout the UK.

WS Atkins exhibition stand will be attended by Dr S El-Belbol, Structural Rehabilitation Manager, Birmingham, Dr A McLeish, Structural Engineering director, Epsom, and Mr G Allen, Associate Director, Epsom who will be pleased to discuss our services in:

• Inspection and testing
• Whole life costing, integrated repair and maintenance strategies
• Protection, maintenance and repair solutions
• Corrosion monitoring and prevention
• Cathodic protection and other electrochemical techniques
• Condition cataloguing of structures and bridge stock
• Assessment of structural adequacy
• Bridge rehabilitation or renewal