Construction for the St. Cloud Hospital expansion called for adding 505,480 square feet to the campus, as well as construction of a new bridge to the emergency room entrance, new entrances at every ramp level, a central processing department, and a 10-story addition for new surgery suites and inpatient rooms. The project also included adding 626 new parking spaces.
We were retained to provide construction materials testing and special inspection services, which included:
- Observing and evaluating the soils for support of the proposed structures and pavements
- Providing vibration monitoring during soil improvement operations
- Observing concrete formwork, anchor bolts and reinforcement for compliance
- Performing laboratory compressive strength testing of concrete
- Performing inspections of masonry block walls for the elevator/stairwell shafts
- Observing field bolted and welded connections for the precast concrete and structural steel framing and roof
- Providing proofroll observations of pavement subgrades
- Testing the bituminous pavements for thickness and density
- Air quality monitoring
- Soldier pile installation observations
- Slope stability analysis
- Micropile installation observation on more than 600 piles
- Micropile integrity testing and top condition observations
- Static pile load testing
- Grout testing
- Waterproofing inspections
- Roof inspections
- Post-tensioning observations
- Concrete maturity testing
- Concrete petrographic analysis
- Ground penetrating radar services
- Retaining wall construction observations
- Drilled pier inspections
- Vibration monitoring with remote trigger notifications
