Company overview

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.'s primary business includes laboratory geotechnical testing for clean and environmentally-contaminated soils, concrete/aggregate testing, and treatability/soil stabilization studies. Founded in 2005 by a veteran in the civil engineering field with over forty years of domestic and international experience, Lev Buchko, P.E., serves as T.E.S.T.'s technical director. T.E.S.T. is located in the Atlanta area, conveniently situated near the major interstates of I-285 and Hwy 78. T.E.S.T. is accredited through the AASHTO accreditation program. T.E.S.T. recently celebrated its 20th year anniversary.

The laboratory comprises of a state-of-the-art testing facility with an in-house machine shop, unique to a laboratory, with the capability to fabricate parts and instrumentation for standard and project-specific testing needs. The tests, following rigid quality procedures with fast turnaround that comply with AASHTO, ASTM, EPA, United States Army Corps of Engineers, and NQA-1 quality requirements, are performed by a Professional Engineer or by technicians under his direct supervision. Laboratory technicians are intensively and continually trained on testing procedures and methods. The technical director of T.E.S.T., Lev Buchko, is a voting member of 7 ASTM sub-committees on soil and rocks. The technical director is a member of a task force that develops new ASTM methods and is a professional engineer in the states of GA and SC. He is also a registered soil classifier with the state of Georgia.