LACO provided construction materials testing and Special Inspection services during site demolition and construction of a new natural gas fired 165 megawatt power plant located adjacent to Humboldt Bay.
We provided the following services:
- Special Inspection and Field Testing of the following:
- Approximately 2000 tons of structural reinforcing steel
- Erection and high strength bolting of approximately 1000 tons of structural steel
- Structural steel welding and mechanical piping welding
- Structural masonry construction
- Installation of approximately 5000 epoxy and mechanical anchors
- Grout placement at approximately 1000 steel column baseplates
- Seismic anchorage for electrical equipment and mechanical piping
- Placement observation, sampling and testing of Observedapproximately 8000 yards of structural concrete
- Density testing of trench backfill and site structural backfill
- Geotechnical explorations and recommendations for as found site soil conditions
- Laboratory Testing and Analyses including the following:
- Compression testing of concrete and grout field samples
- Moisture/density curve analysis to facilitate field density testing
- Sieve analysis of structural backfill materials
- Characterization of structural backfill materials
