Coastal Materials Testing Lab, LLC

Coastal Materials Testing Lab, LLC is owned and operated by Salah Al-Bakri, who has over seventeen (17) years of construction materials testing experience. Our company has been in service since the summer of 2011, but the experience behind the people within the company is outstanding. Our broad scope of services allows us to handle the inspection and testing needs of the construction industry from concrete testing to concrete corings, asphalt, soil testing to soil borings, structural steel inspection, welding and much more.

Coastal is a fully qualified construction laboratory facility, accredited by NVLAP, Lab Code No. 500076-0. Our technicians are qualified in several different areas, including Troxler Nuclear Density Testing, ACI, AWS, Asphalt Certification, and NICET Certification.

Coastal Materials Testing Lab’s management team is a well-coordinated, well-educated resourceful structure of individuals that will provide you with a high quality service to fulfill the needs of any project. We have a staff of Licensed Professional Engineers. We utilize our large library of reference books, standards, and specifications to refer to, as well as many contacts within the industry, and memberships to various organizations from which we can obtain information.

Engineering

Pile Inspection
Underpinning
Vibration Monitoring
Structural Stability
Sheeting/Shoring
Curtain Walls
Foundation Investigation
Floor Flatness

Concrete

Batch Plant and Field Inspections
Compressive Strength (Cylinders, Beams, Cubes, Prisms)
Chemical Analysis
Chloride
Mix Design
Crack Monitoring
Coring
Non-Destructive Testing (Winsor Probes, Schmidt Hammer)
Freeze-Thaw
Petrographic Analysis
Post Tension Inspection

Asphalt

Batch/Drum Plant Inspection
Complete Marshall and Superpave Mix
Coring
Air Void, Bulk Specific Gravity, Extraction/Gradation, Theoretical Specific Gravity
Quality Control Manual
Field Inspection
Stock Pile Analysis

Soil