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Though based in Ottawa, AATech Scientific also has sattelite
offices in Calgary and Evans Mills, in northern New York
near the Canadian border.
“We specialize in pile testing,” said Mohammadi. “We offer
dynamic load testing (PDA), which is a very common quantitative
way of verifying pile capacity; we’ve done, I would say, over
the last 20 years, more than 15,000 PDA tests and counting.
Although we offer design and consulting services, we perform
dynamic testing on driven piles, cross-hole sonic logging on
concrete piles, thermal integrity profiling (TIP) and pile integrity
testing (PIT) – AKA, low strain testing. Over the last few
years, we have conducted several bi-directional loading tests as
well. Bi-directional static loading tests (BDSLT) are becoming
more and more popular and we are proud to say that we are one
step above in innovation, having developed our own data acquisition
system.
“I can’t stress enough how much experience AATech
Scientific has in terms of pile testing and analysis. Our expertise
is not just in data acquisition, but also being able to accurately
interpret the data. This comes with experience. Not a lot of
firms have access to engineers who have experience with as many
case studies as we do.”
The company also travels, practising throughout Canada
and the Americas. Mohammadi himself has retained a Super
Elite 100k Air Canada status for the last seven years, flying over
700 flights with the company.
“In the last 20 years, we’ve worked in almost every province
in Canada,” said Mohammadi. “Our management and senior
engineers are licensed in all of those provinces and some states
in the in the U.S. We’ve done work in several states, mainly New
York, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Oklahoma, California and the
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