The introduction of the new European BS EN ISO 17892 series has begun with the publication of BS EN ISO 17892-1: 2014 – Water Content, which replaces BS 1377-2: 1990, Clause 3.2, and also BS EN ISO 17892-2: 2014 – Determination of Bulk Density which replaces BS 1377-2: 1990, Clauses 7.1 to 7.3. The new […]
Geolabs is pleased to announce that their Technical Director, Dr John Powell will be presenting a paper at the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, in Edinburgh from 13 – 17th September 2015. The paper, co-written with Geolabs’ Technical Manager, Chris Wallace, and Hilary Shields of Ove Arup & Partners (formerly of […]
As part of its ongoing commitment to quality and customer service, Geolabs Limited’s laboratories in Watford and Birmingham were granted UKAS multisite accreditation in June 2015. Geolabs’ Managing Director, Mr John Masters comments: “Achieving UKAS multisite accreditation further verifies the excellent standard of geotechnical testing provided by Geolabs Limited, and demonstrates a consistent and unified […]
Geolabs Limited is pleased to announce that Dr John Powell and Chris Wallace will both be giving presentations at the AGS Quality Results in Ground Investigation seminar that will take place on Wednesday 14th October 2015 at Hamilton House, London. Geolabs Limited are also one of the joint sponsors of the seminar. This full day conference is […]
Geolabs attended Geotechnica 2015, Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th July, the UK’s Largest Geotechnical Conference and Exhibition
AECOM engineers had a tour around Geolabs’ laboratories led by Chris Wallace. This included a basic introduction of each of the tests seen, ranging from Atterberg Limits up to advanced triaxial testing. If you would like to arrange a tour for a group of your colleagues (ideally for a group of 5 to 10 people), […]
Presented by Geolabs’ John Powell and Chris Wallace, organised by Equipe in partnership with Geolabs Limited. Full details available at Equipe website
Geolabs’ John Powell and Chris Wallace have recently jointly co-authored with NGI and Dong Energy a paper to be presented at ISFOG 2015 (3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics) in Oslo in June 2015. The paper presents the initial results from a joint study on the problems of determining the minimum and maximum dry […]
While preparing a specimen for an Effective Stress Triaxial test on soil, we discovered three reasonably intact specimens of Ammonites from a sample from South West region of England. Ammonites /ˈæmənaɪts/ are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs are more closely related to living […]
During daily testing on rocks, GEOLABS has found a beautiful example of Dendritic crystal growth (from Greek δένδρον déndron, “tree”) in a Mudstone with its characteristically fractal pattern growth. These crystallized minerals (often mistaken for fossils) are formed in joints, but can occur within foliation, of the rocks that are filled by percolating of mineral solutions. A variety […]
