Geolabs Limited offers a sample collection service to complement our extensive testing capability. Our fleet of vehicles and dedicated drivers can collect samples from across the mainland UK, and collections from locations within a 50 mile radius of our Watford and Birmingham offices are FREE for consignments of 20+ samples to be tested, subject to […]
Geolabs Limited were delighted to host a mini conference and tour for GDS staff and their worldwide sales representatives, on Wednesday 12th September. Dr. John Powell delivered a basic, but comprehensive presentation on the necessity of laboratory testing, concentrating on advanced testing techniques and apparatus. Chris Wallace and Phil Robinson also provided a tour and […]
We are pleased to welcome Anna Donigiewicz to Geolabs Limited as a Senior Technician. Anna comes to Geolabs with considerable experience in a wide range of soils classification, earthworks, strength and consolidation tests as well as chemical and rock testing. Anna will reinforce the over 500 years of geotechnical soils and rock testing expertise within […]
Geolabs Limited are pleased to announce that we are exhibiting at the Engineering in Chalk 2018 Conference. The conference is being organised by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and will be held at Imperial College London (IC) on 17th and 18th of September 2018. We are delighted to be part of this prestigious event Please […]
Dr. John Powell, Geolabs Limited’s Technical Director, presented Advanced Uses of CPT Data courses in Belfast and Dublin last week along with Dr Tom Lunne of NGI and Darren Ward of In Situ SI. The Geolabs Limited’s PSI and colour charts were so popular with the delegates, that supplies were quickly exhausted and further copies […]
Recently Geolabs Limited’s Technical Director Dr John Powell, chaired the annual meetings of CEN/TC 341 (Geotechnical Investigation and Testing) and ISO/TC 182 (Geotechnics) in Madrid. Decisions on the future testing Standards in Europe and Internationally were discussed and assessed as being robust and fit for purpose. Yet again Geolabs’ Particle size indicator (PSI) and our […]
We are pleased to welcome Truong Le to Geolabs Limited as an Advanced and Research Testing Engineer. Truong researched into Time-dependent Behaviour of Structured Soils from the University of Sydney and has considerable advanced testing experience, He will be responsible, with others, for growing our advanced testing section and supporting other research orientated testing facilities.
Geolabs Limited is proud to announce that following the UKAS surveillance visit at our Watford laboratory in January 2018, we have successfully achieved UKAS accreditation for the newly introduced BS EN ISO 17892-5:2017 – Incremental Loading Oedometer test and have maintained UKAS accreditation for our existing scope of tests for the 19th consecutive year. BS […]
Geolabs has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Technical Innovation category of the 2018 Ground Engineering Awards for our wonderful PSI (Particle Size Indicator). This device makes it easier to assess the sizes of particles in a soil sample on site and in the laboratory. It allows a visual comparison of sands and silt, […]
Geolabs Limited’s Technical Director, Dr John Powell, presented a two day course. with Tom Lunne of Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, for Equipe Training on Cone Penetration Test in Geotechnical Practice at Brunel University in Uxbridge. Delegates attended from all over Europe and it was a great success. Geolabs’ Particle Size Indicators (PSI) and the new colour […]
