FloorSciences™ provides comprehensive range of third-party analytical services relating to issues with floor coverings, floor coatings, and concrete slabs. We take pride in maintaining a reputation for a high level of professionalism and objectivity.
FloorSciences™ is one of the very few flooring consultancy agencies in the nation with in-house capability to perform ground penetrating radar (GPR) subsurface concrete scanning to locate post-tensioning (PT) cables, reinforcement, conduit, and other embeddings, allowing us to perform internal concrete relative humidity (RH) moisture testing and core drilling in these slabs.
We started performing concrete RH testing in 2003 as one of the early adopters when this was a new test standard.
Professional services include:
∙ Consulting
· Concrete coating analysis
· Concrete core sampling & testing
· Concrete slab moisture & pH testing
· Concrete slab moisture mitigation system analysis
· Construction safety compliance
· Educational seminars
· Expert witness & litigation support
· Flooring products testing
· Forensics failure investigation & analysis
· Ground penetrating radar (GPR) concrete subsurface scanning (2D+3D)
· Performance evaluation
· Punch list inspection
· QA/QC services
· Remote wireless ambient RH & temp monitoring
· Sub-floor evaluation, including cementitious underlayments
· Architectural/construction photography
The largest market sectors for FloorSciences are healthcare and education, but we also have worked with Fortune 500 companies along with other building owners, developers, attorneys, architects, engineers, designers, general contractors, floor covering and coating contractors, manufacturers, specification writers, management companies, tenants, and distributors
We have worked on projects with some of the nation’s largest and most well respected general contractors and construction management firms, including:
· Ajax Building Co
· Batson-Cook Co
· BE&K Building Group
· Brasfield & Gorrie
· Choate Construction
· Conlan Co
· Cousins Properties
· DPR Construction
· Gilbane Building Co
· HITT Contracting
· Hoar Construction
· Holder Construction
· MEJA Construction
· New South Construction
· NV5 Global
· Skanska USA Building
· Turner Construction
· Warren Hanks Construction
· White-Spunner Construction
· Winter Construction
We work in a wide-range of market sectors, including:
· BioSciences / Life Sciences
· Broadcast Media
· Commercial
· Corporate / Office
· Education
· Government
· Healthcare
· Hospitality
· Industrial
· Institutional
· Medical Manufacturing
· Multi-Family Housing
· Pharmaceutical
· Retail
· Senior Living
· Sports & Recreation
Some of the commercial flooring categories we have experience in analyzing include:
· Bamboo
· Carpet: broadloom & tile
· Cementitious toppings & underlayments
· Cork
· Hardwood: engineered & solid
· Laminate
· Linoleum: sheet & tile
· Luxury vinyl plank (LVP)
· Luxury vinyl tile (LVT)
· Resin: acrylic, epoxy, polyurethane
· Rubber: sheet & tile
· Terrazzo
· Vinyl composition tile (VCT)
· Vinyl (PVC): sheet & tile
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