Soil Laboratory Services

optical examination Testing
mineral identification Testing
chemistry Testing
cementation Testing
Slake Durability Testing
ABA and NAG Testing
nitrate Testing
moisture content Testing
density Testing
gravity Testing
ph Testing
conductivity Testing
strength Testing
salt Testing
organic matter Testing
texture Testing
plasticity Testing
shearing Testing
silkiness Testing
isotopes Testing
Plasticity Testing
in-situ moisture content Testing
in-situ strength Testing
compressive strength Testing
compaction Testing
Bioaccumulation Testing
Carbonate Content Testing
Shrinkage Factors Testing
Damping Properties Testing
Modulus Properties Testing
Accelerated Weathering Testing
Frost Heave Susceptibility Testing
Thaw Weakening Testing
Infiltration Rate Testing
Hydraulic Conductivity Ratio (HCR) Testing
Torsional Ring Shear Testing Testing
Drained Residual Shear Strength Testing
Terrestrial Soil-Core Microcosm Test Testing
Contaminant Sorption Testing
Mechanical Cone Penetration Testing
Filtration Compatibility Testing
Soluble Salt Content Testing
Sand Equivalent Value Testing
Electronic Friction Cone Penetration Testing
Piezocone Penetration Testing
Lime Content Testing
Inorganic Matter Content Testing
Normalized Penetration Resistance Testing
Liquid Limit Testing
Plastic Limit Testing
Plasticity Index Testing
Cation Exchange Capacity Testing
Exchange Complex Testing
California Bearing Ratio Testing
Standard Penetration Test (SPT) Testing
Dispersive Characteristics Testing
Expansion Index Testing
Organic Matter Content Testing
Testing

Type of Soil Products

Contract Laboratory can assist your company, academic institution, government agency or organization in outsourcing contract laboratories to perform testing, analysis, and product development for many Soil finished products, processes, systems, in-process materials, raw materials and components such as:

Sand
Clay
Silt
Topsoil
Backfill
Loam
Humus
Peat
Chalk
Lime
Sludge
Biosolids
Calcareous Soils
Fine-Grained Soils
Coarse-Grained Soils
Cohesive Soils
Soil/Geotextile Systems
Cohesive Soils
Soil-Lime Mixtures
Inorganic Soils
Blended Soils
Athletic Field Rootzone Mixes

• ISO 20244 - Soil quality -- Screening method for water content -- Determination by refractometry
• EPA 8272 - Parent and Alkyl Polycyclic Aromatics in Sediment Pore Water by Solid-Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry in Selected Ion Monitoring Mode
• EPA Method - Soil Screening for Petroleum Hydrocarbons by Immunoassay
• EPA 4050 - Method TNT Explosives in Soil by Immunoassay
• IEEE 442 - Guide for Thermal Resistivity Measurements of Soils and Backfill Materials
• ISO 14235 - Soil quality - Determination of organic carbon by sulfochromic oxidation
• ISO 21268 - Soil quality - Leaching procedures for subsequent chemical and ecotoxicological testing of soil and soil-like materials - Part 2: Batch test using a liquid to solid ratio of 10 l/kg dry matter
• ASTM 2216 - Standard Test Methods for Laboratory Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil and Rock by Mass
• ASTM D2974 - Standard Test Methods for Moisture, Ash, and Organic Matter of Peat and Other Organic Soils
• ISO 17183 - Soil quality - Screening soils for isopropanol-extractable organic compounds by determining emulsification index by light attenuation
• ISO 16558 - Soil quality - Risk-based petroleum hydrocarbons - Part 1: Determination of aliphatic and aromatic fractions of volatile petroleum hydrocarbons using gas chromatography (static headspace method)
• AS 1289 - Methods of testing soils for engineering purposes, Method 4.1.1: Soil chemical tests - Determination of the organic matter content of a soil - Normal method
• AS 4439.2 - Wastes, sediments and contaminated soils, Part 2: Preparation of leachates - Zero headspace procedure
• AS 4439.2 - Wastes, sediments and contaminated soils, Part 2: Preparation of leachates - Zero headspace procedure
• ISO 14388 - Soil quality - Acid-base accounting procedure for acid sulfate soils - Part 3: Suspension peroxide oxidation combined acidity and sulfur (SPOCAS) methodology
• ASTM 5831 - Standard Practice for Screening Fuels in Soils
• ISO 23743 - Soil quality - Determination of dehydrogenases activity in soils - Part 2: Method using iodotetrazolium chloride (INT)
• AASHTO T-311 - Standard Method of Test for Grain-Size Analysis of Granular Soil Materials
• AASHTO T 311 - Standard Method of Test for Grain-Size Analysis of Granular Soil Materials
• AASHTO T 180 - Standard Method of Test for Moisture-Density Relations of Soils Using a 4.54-kg (10-lb) Rammer and a 457-mm (18-in.) Drop
• AASHTO T 90 - Standard Method of Test for Determining the Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soils
• IEEE 442 - Thermal Resistivity Measurements of Soils and Backfill Materials
• ASTM D1195 - Standard Test Method for Repetitive Static Plate Load Tests of Soils and Flexible Pavement Components, for Use in Evaluation and Design of Airport and Highway Pavements
• ASTM D4611 - Standard Test Method for Specific Heat of Rock and Soil
• ASTM D7830 - Standard Test Method for In-Place Density (Unit Weight) and Water Content of Soil Using an Electromagnetic Soil Density Gauge
• ASTM D4778 - Standard Test Method for Determination of Corrosion and Fouling Tendency of Cooling Water Under Heat Transfer Conditions
• ISO 11063 - Soil quality - Direct extraction of soil DNA
• ISO 15176:2019 - Guidance on characterization of excavated soil and other materials intended for re-use
• ASTM D2974-20e1 - Standard Test Methods for Determining the Water (Moisture) Content, Ash Content, and Organic Material of Peat and Other Organic Soils
• ASTM D1586/D1586M-18: - Standard Test Method for Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Split-Barrel Sampling of Soils

Soil Certifications, Licenses, and Accreditations:

Depending on your Soil products, you may need third-party Soil laboratories or research facilities with specific certifications, licenses or accreditations.

US EPA
OSHA