June 23rd CPT Demonstrations at Gouda-Geo! You are very welcome! Where? Satellietbaan 8 in Hillegom (20 minutes south of Schiphol Airport) When? Saturday June 23rd, 2018 starting at 10h00 How to get there? A (free of charge) bus will leave…
What a great picture. British CPT specialist In Situ Site Investigation Ltd. has been asked to carry out CPTu tests on a railroad track in the UK. For this project they mobilised 2 rail-road excavators. Both excavators were provided with a modular 200…
Today Dutch CPT company Wiha Grondmechanica has taken delivery of a flatbed platform on their MAN 6x2 truck. The unit is purposely designed and built for the transport of a fully ballasted CPT crawler with long jacks.
June 21st and 22nd CPT18, the 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, will be organised in Delft. The latest developments and challenges related to the use of cone penetration test equipment will be discussed. An excellent opportunity to meet your colleagues and…
Maasvlakte 2 is the latest expansion project of the port of Rotterdam. With this new 2,000 hectare area in the sea, the port will be 20% larger. One of our clients, Dutch soil investigation specialist Mos Grondmechanica, has been asked to…
Electric CPT(U) cones are subject to wear during the CPT tests. That is a thing we are all familiar with. In some soils the cone wears quicker than in other soils. This week we received a S15CFII electric CPT cone that has…
GeoSupporting is a Dutch CPT company specialising in CPT jobs in hard to reach places. They have a wide array of portable and crawler-based rigs tailored to the requirements of their specific jobs. The brand-new 110 kN CPT crawler that was delivered…
For years we have been developing and manufacturing passionately equipment for Cone Penetration Testing of the highest quality. It is very important to us and to our clients that our products are durable and reliable. We understand that what reliable equipment…
This week received from Mr. John Verhagen (Engineering Office of the City of Rotterdam) this fantastic picture of a very early CPT penetrometer rig. This picture was taken somewhere between 1947 and 1951 not far from Rotterdam harbour. It shows…
Recently Dutch soil investigation expert Koops Grondmechanica has taken delivery of a brandnew Crawler-Truck as extension of their fleet of rigs. The Crawler-Truck is based on an impressive Volvo FMX 370 HP 4x4 with all bells and whistles. The CPT unit itself…