Timely Engineering Soil Tests, LLC
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Projects

Timely Engineering Soil Tests (T.E.S.T.) is a professional engineering firm performing routine and sophisticated (including non-standard in-house developed) laboratory soil tests. T.E.S.T. is a certified Small Disadvantaged/Minority Business Enterprise (SDBE/MBE/8a). T.E.S.T.'s primary business includes laboratory geotechnical testing for clean and environmentally-contaminated soils, concrete/aggregate testing, and treatability/soil stabilization studies. Founded by a veteran in the civil engineering field with over a twenty-five year domestic and international experience, Lev Buchko, P.E., serves as T.E.S.T.'s president and technical director. T.E.S.T. is located in the Atlanta area, conveniently situated near the major interstates of I-285 and Hwy 78.

 
 
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Projects

T.E.S.T. personnel have a vast amount of experience relating to geotechnical laboratory testing. The following are some of the projects in which T.E.S.T. personnel participated.

Project: Remediation of a former manufactured gas plant along a major waterway in Wisconsin

  • Award: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Engineering Achievement Award
  • In partnership with Natural Resource Technology (NRT), the technical director led laboratory testing for bench-scale treatability study and quality control during in situ remediation.
  • Award: Slag Cement Association Project of the Year Award.
  • In partnership with NRT and Williams Environmental, the technical director led mix design development and testing of mixes with slag cement which provided a very economical and an environmentally sustainable design.

Project: Various landfills in GA, NC, AL, TN, CA, NJ, NY, FL, and SC

Scope of Laboratory Testing: Proctor, hydraulic conductivity, Atterberg limits, sieve analysis, carbonate and organic content, CU triaxial

Project: Georgia Power Landfill

Scope of Laboratory Testing: over 900 hydraulic conductivity tests were performed in a five month period (August 2007 - December 2007); with state-of-the run instrumentation, T.E.S.T. was able to meet the clients' schedule by running between 30 to 35 samples during the peak days on the construction site. In order to meet the client's schedule, T.E.S.T. was operating in two twelve-hour shifts.

Project: Commercial developments for new construction and remediation of various sites, such as Home Depot, Ruby Tuesday, Amazon, Target, Chili's, Publix, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Shell, and various solar farms

Scope of Laboratory Testing: Proctor, shrink/swell, consolidation, CU triaxial, sieve analysis, UU triaxial direct shear, USCS classification, Atterberg limits, specific gravity, percent porosity, soil/cement mix design and testing for UCS and durability, CBR, corrosion, thermal resistivity, L.A. Abrasion, expansion index and collapse potential, and durability

Project: treatability (bench-scale studies for development of soil/grout mixes and quality control laboratory testing during remediation) for various MGP and other environmentally-contaminated sites. Project site locations included: Georgia, California, New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts, and the Bahamas.

Scope of Laboratory Testing: mix design development, hydraulic conductivity, wet/dry & freeze/thaw durability, UCS, pH, volume change control, ANS16.1 leaching procedure.

Project: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 5th runway, structures over I-285, etc.

Scope of Laboratory Testing for slope and bearing capacity: UU and CU triaxial, Proctor, consolidation, hydraulic conductivity, direct shear, soil/cement mix design and testing for UCS and durability, CBR.

Project:  various DOT (Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida) geotechnical investigations for widening, soil survey, new roads and bridge construction (examples: I-285/400 intersection, MARTA, Atlanta Light Rail System, GRTA, TVA, I-20, SR 82, SR 18, I-85)

Scope of Laboratory Testing: Proctor, gradation, CBR, shrink/swell, Atterberg limits, CU Triaxial, Corrosion, Consolidation, Direct Shear, UCS for rocks, USCS, and GA DOT 810 series with soil classification.

Project: U.S. Geological Survey in WV for slope stability

Scope of Laboratory Testing: Direct shear, Atterberg limits, permeability, specific gravity