IGS offers a comprehensive range of Geotechnical services for Highways, Bridges, Railways, Power, Industrial and domestic sectors. These services includes field and laboratory testing including interpretation of results for design and recommendations about safe bearing capascity and type of foundations, design of embankments, slope stability, Ground improvement methods and instrumentation. The following are the specialized areas of activity:

Geological and Geotechnical Investigation
In – situ Rock mechanic Tests
Geophysical Testing
Construction material Survey
Laboratory Testing
Foundation Construction & testing
Topographical and Contour Survey

Geotechnical investigation is an essential preliminary step for civil engineering design and construction works and primarily, the objects for conducting such investigations are as follows:

Suitability - To assess the general suitability of the site;
Design - To enable an adequate and economic design;
Construction - To plan the most feasible method of construction, to foresee and provide against difficulties and delays that may arise during construction due to ground, groundwater.

The ground is naturally variable and often the nature of these variations is not known in advance. In order to evaluate properly the nature of the ground and groundwater and to achieve the objectives of the site investigation, it is essential that the work be planned, suitable methods be adopted, undertaken and supervised by experienced personnel.

In order to collect data and achieve the project objectives, geotechnical studies and site Investigations are performed. We comes in where such a site investigation is required and services projects pertaining to:

Geological and Geotechnical Investigation

Drilling and Sampling ( Soil & Rock)
Deep Drilling in rocks upto 300 m
Bore Hole Logging
Field Permeability Tests
Standard Penetration Test
Dynamic Cone Penetration Test
Vane Shear Test
Pressure meter Test (80 bar)
Plate load test
Footing load test
In – situ shear tests
Modulus of Sub – grade reaction ( K – Value)

Sampling

Open Tube Sampling
Single / Double / Triple Tube Core Barrels
Undisturbed Sampling
Water Sampling
Split Spoon Sampling

Subsurface Sounding

Static Cone Penetration Test
Dynamic Cone Penetration Test
Standard Penetration Test

Rock mechanic Tests

Rock mechanics is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behaviour of rock. Excessive rock failure must be avoided in order to preserve the stability of the structure, thats where we came to help you by providing:

In – situ Shear test (Rock – Rock and Concrete Rock tests)
Modulus of Deformation / Elasticity by Plate Load Test
Footing load test
Dilatometer tests (Upto 200 bar)
Hydro fracture test
Flat jack test
Lugeon tests

Geophysical Services

Geophysics offers a one-of-a-kind view of the earth by detecting sub-surface conditions of physical property variations based on lateral and vertical mapping. These surveys, conducted remotely using non-invasive technologies, provide a rapid identification of geologic layering and structure and the location and magnitude of human impact on the subsurface. Geophysical studies also determine the nature and extent of potential hazards and the physical parameters that are vital to successful engineering and construction activities.
We provide the full complement of geophysical expertise, backed by today’s technologies to best serve our clients’ needs. Our combination of state-of-the-art instrumentation and analytical software, with decades of experience, ensures that only the highest quality, most reliable data will be produced.
Our Geophysical Services Include:

Seismic refraction tests
Cross hole, up hole and down hole tests
Vertical Electric Sounding (VES)
GPR Survey

Construction Material Survey

Construction material survey aims to access the availability of requisite quantities of construction materials of appropriate quality for use in construction of various components of the projects.
Our expertise includes the following:

Construction Materials Survey for Hydropower and Irrigation Development Projects
Identification and selection of queries
Setting up of field quality control laboratories
Laboratory testing of coarse and fine aggregates
Water testing
Petro graphic studies
Lugeon tests

Laboratory Testing

IGS has full-fledged geotechnical laboratory facilities for conducting tests on soil, rock and construction material. A dedicated team of engineers and technician is committed to providing reliable and accurate test results. Our laboratory is accredited to the ISO: 9001 - 2008.
We are carrying out the following tests:

Soil Samples

Gradation (Sieve & Hydrometer Analysis)
Atterberg Limit
Density & Moisture Content
Direct shear test
Consolidation
Permeability
Proctor compaction test (Standard & Modified)
California Bearing Ratio (CBR)
Uniaxial compressive strength
Triaxial compression test
Relative Density tests
Chemical analysis of soil & water samples

Rock Samples

Uniaxial compressive strength
Point load index strength
Elastic modulus
Density
Porosity
Water absorption

Aggregate

Sieve analysis
Elongation index
Flakiness index
Specific gravity
Crushing Value
Impact value

Foundation Construction & testing

Construction of Piles

Bored Cast in – situ RCC piles (300 mm to 1200 mm diameter )
Under- reamed Piles

Initial and Routine pile load tests

Verttical
Uplift
Lateral

Topographical and Contour Survey

IGS moves with the technologically advanced – DGPS, Electronic Total Stations, digital levels connected to high-end Computing Devices for conducting surveys and processing results. The use of this technology ensures Precise and highly accurate results.
The scope of services includes:

Topographic Survey
Land Contour Survey
Property Survey
Route Alignment Surveys