Construction Materials Testing

H.H. Holmes has more than 70 years of expertise in construction materials testing: soil, concrete, asphalt, masonry and steel. Our field technicians provide accurate and timely on-site testing during all phases of your project. On-site observation and testing is backed up by comprehensive laboratory services performed by highly-trained and experienced lab personnel using state-of-the-art equipment.

We understand the importance to your project of timely and accurate testing and reporting and we are never more than a phone call away from bringing our skilled and experienced technicians to your construction site. We are capable of both electronic and radio dispatching of technicians. Making a call to H.H. Holmes is the shortest distance between you and the help you require on site. Our technicians employ Field2Base Tablet PCs so your site conditions are documented and posted to our website, ready for you to access within 48 hours of our inspection.

Our customer base includes architects, engineers, developers, contractors, government agencies and consultants. Our expertise has been applied to a great variety of projects: mass earth, high-rise buildings, roads and bridges, mass transit, wind farms, airports, subdivisions, military base structures including housing, etc.

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H.H. Holmes Testing Laboratories is a full-service Materials Testing, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering firm offering soil, packaging and construction materials testing on-site and in our laboratory. Headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, we serve clients in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Montana and Texas with local lab facilities, drill rigs, pressure testing and engineering supervision. In addition, our Lab-In-A-Box technology has allowed us to place custom-built portable labs on construction sites around the world. Samples of every sort arrive at our labs from around the world for testing every day.
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Case Studies »

Lovers Lane United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX
Provided full-time construction material testing
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Evanston Northwestern Hospital, Evanston, IL
Subsurface exploration and engineering analysis, pressuremeter testing and construction materials testing that included vibration monitoring utilizing seismographs during demolition, pre- and post-construction, home inspections, site development, soil, caissons, concrete, rebar, steel and fireproofing inspections.
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