Industries

Commercial
Contractors for new construction for medical centers, college campuses, high-rise office buildings, office parks and warehouse complexes have all benefited from our comprehensive testing services. Our "one-stop" services include drilling and engineering, soil, concrete, rebar, steel, fireproofing and asphalt testing.

Residential
Our more than 70 years experience assisting our clients in land development, trenching for utilities, road building and remediation in every kind of soil conditions ensure our expertise will be of service to you on your residential project.

Land Development
Our expertise has been applied to a great variety of projects that required considerable mass earth work: high-rise buildings and business parks, roads and bridges, mass transit, wind farms, airports, subdivisions, military base structures including housing, etc.

Retail
H.H. Holmes Testing has been responsible for drilling and testing on numerous retail developments from 100+ acre outlet malls, indoor mall development and improvements, to strip malls and big box stores from every national chain. We have been the testing firm contracted for many different chains of stand-alone pharmacies, convenience stores, restaurants and banks that have been springing up in and around the locales we serve.

Services »

H. H. Holmes Testing Laboratories has a wide range of materials testing and engineering expertise. Since 1936 we have helped our customers in a variety of disciplines from construction to packaging to better execute successful projects. We offer a variety of geotechnical drilling services to ensure the success of your building project. Our laboratory services span the full range of materials testing and research in soils, concrete, aggregate, asphalt, masonry and steel as well as paper, corrugated, wood, metals and plastics testing for retail, commercial, industrial and medical applications.

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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