Construction Materials Engineering

DEM offers field and office services that are essential to ensuring conformity with the approved design, client standards, and contractual obligations.  Every phase of your construction project is important.  Our large array of services ensure that the phase specific needs of your construction project are met.  Our preconstruction services emphasize the selection of proper materials to meet national building code requirements and client standards.  Quality control programs and quantity surveying are also other means of helping you meet your particular project goals during the preconstruction stage.  Our construction in-progress services are aimed at ensuring that acceptable construction methods are utilized that will conform to agency requirements and various other standards of practice.  DEM’s post-construction services provide the insight and analysis needed to ensure that all client standards, contractual obligations, and serviceability requirements are met.
          

Preconstruction Field and Office Services:

• Specification preparation and review
• Resource evaluations (Material Sources)
• Materials conformance requirements
• Concrete mix design
• Concrete mix design review
• Hot mix asphalt design
• Hot mix asphalt design review
• Materials sampling and testing
• Quantity surveying, cost estimating
• Construction quality control programs
• Materials value engineering

Construction In-Progress Services:

• Construction monitoring and inspection
• Field Testing
• Materials plant inspection
• Daily field report review
• Third party testing
• Materials specimen fabrication
• Strength of materials testing
• Project management
• Construction quality control management

Post-Construction Services:

• Building distress and condition analysis
• Construction deficiency investigations
• Pavement management
• Pavement distress and condition analysis