Services We Offer

It is our goal to provide quality service to our Clients.  This is accomplished by performing our tasks with technical excellence, professionalism, and attention to the Client’s specific needs and project goals.

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Construction Materials Testing

YPC Consulting Group, P.L. is fully equipped to provide all your construction materials testing needs. Our services include, but are not limited to, the following:

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Threshold Inspection

Our personnel have provided Special Inspection services on numerous structures throughout Florida. Projects have included educational buildings, health care facilities, office buildings, governmental buildings, and mid- to high-rise condominium structures.

Testing Services

  • Limerock Bearing Ratio (LBR) and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Tests
  • Modified or Standard Proctor Tests
  • Compaction Tests with Nuclear Moisture-Density Gauges.
  • Compaction Tests with Sand Cone Density Apparatus
  • Atterberg Limits Tests, Gradation Tests, and Soil Classifications
  • Concrete Cylinder Testing for Compressive Strength
  • Grout Prism Testing for Compressive Strength
  • Mortar Cube Testing for Compressive Strength
  • Concrete Beam Testing for Flexural Strength
  • Concrete Air Content Tests
  • Concrete Unit Weight and Yield Tests
  • Asphalt Coring Services
  • Concrete Coring Services
  • Asphalt & Limerock Thickness Determinations
  • Limerock Total Carbonates Tests

Inspection Services

  • Threshold (Special) Inspection Services are provided in accordance with Chapter 61G15, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.).
  • All Authorized Special Inspection Representatives employed by YPC Consulting Group, P.L. comply with Chapter 61G15, F.A.C., which requires Authorized Representatives to be engineers, architects, registered building inspectors, or registered general contractors. Specifically, our inspectors are either engineers or registered building inspectors with the International Code Council (ICC).

Geotechnical Engineering

Our team has vast experience in Southwest Florida in the geotechnical exploration and engineering field.

Ground Improvement

Monitoring and testing services for ground improvement techniques such as vibroreplacement and vibroflotation.

Geotechnical Services

  • Subsurface explorations using Standard Penetration Test (SPT) borings.

  • Subsurface explorations using Piezocone Penetration Test (PCPT) soundings.

  • Foundation studies and engineering services to analyze and evaluate the most cost-effective foundation solutions, including conventional spread footings foundations, augered cast-in-place pile foundations, driven precast concrete pile foundations, timber pile foundations, ground improvement using vibroreplacement and/or vibroflotation techniques, cement stabilized vertical columns supported foundations, and foundation underpinning.

Ground Services

  • Monitoring vibroreplacment or vibroflotation operations designed to achieve ground improvement prior to construction of conventional shallow foundation systems.  This consists of inserting a large vibrating probe into the ground, and replacing lost soil volume resulting from consolidation with either sand (vibroflotation) or stone columns (vibroreplacement).
  • Post-improvement verification testing using the piezocone penetration test method, in order to verify that the anticipated level of improvement has been attained.

Vibration Monitoring

The professional staff at YPC Consulting Group, P.L. possesses the equipment and technical expertise to monitor vibrations resulting from any source.

Foundations

Pile installation, monitoring, and testing services for deep pile foundation systems

Vibration Services

  • Subsurface explorations using Standard Penetration Test (SPT) borings.

  • Subsurface explorations using Piezocone Penetration Test (PCPT) soundings.

  • Foundation studies and engineering services to analyze and evaluate the most cost-effective foundation solutions, including conventional spread footings foundations, augered cast-in-place pile foundations, driven precast concrete pile foundations, timber pile foundations, ground improvement using vibroreplacement and/or vibroflotation techniques, cement stabilized vertical columns supported foundations, and foundation underpinning.

Foundation Services

  • Installation monitoring of augered cast-in-place concrete piles.
  • Augered cast-in-place concrete pile grout strength testing.
  • Installation monitoring for driven precast concrete piles.
  • Installation monitoring for timber piles.
  • Static compression and tension pile load test monitoring (with or without vibrating wire strain gauges).
  • Installation monitoring and load testing for helical piers.
  • Dynamic pile load testing using the Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA).

Pre-Construction Structure Surveys

YPC Consulting Group, P.L. has vast experience in the evaluation of existing structures to document existing damage prior to construction. This service is required by the City of Naples and other governmental agencies prior to installation of driven piles.

Construction Training Qualification Program (CTQP)

YPC Consulting Group, P.L. staff members are qualified in accordance with the Florida Department of Transportation Construction Training Qualification Program (CTQP) in the following areas:

Survey Services

  • Documentation of existing conditions of nearby structures prior to blasting, rock excavation, or pile installation operations.  Documentation is achieved using video cameras operated by professional engineers.
  • Expert consulting services to minimize the effects of vibrations on adjacent structures.

Qualifications

  • Asphalt Paving Technician, Level 1
  • Asphalt Paving Technician, Level 2
  • Concrete Field Technician, Level 1
  • Concrete Laboratory Technician, Level 1
  • Earthwork Construction Inspection, Level 1
  • Earthwork Construction Inspection, Level 2
  • Aggregate Base Testing Technician
  • Limerock Bearing Ratio (LBR) Technician
  • Qualified Sampler Technician
  • Quality Control Manager
  • YPC can provide these laboratory and field services for roadway and highway projects.  Our laboratory is also accredited by the Construction Materials Engineering Council (CMEC) and is included on the Florida Department of Transportation Qualified Lab List database.

Construction Materials Testing

YPC Consulting Group, P.L. is fully equipped to provide all your construction materials testing needs. Our services include, but are not limited to, the following:

Testing Services

  • Limerock Bearing Ratio (LBR) and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Tests
  • Modified or Standard Proctor Tests
  • Compaction Tests with Nuclear Moisture-Density Gauges.
  • Compaction Tests with Sand Cone Density Apparatus
  • Atterberg Limits Tests, Gradation Tests, and Soil Classifications
  • Concrete Cylinder Testing for Compressive Strength
  • Grout Prism Testing for Compressive Strength
  • Mortar Cube Testing for Compressive Strength
  • Concrete Beam Testing for Flexural Strength
  • Concrete Air Content Tests
  • Concrete Unit Weight and Yield Tests
  • Asphalt Coring Services
  • Concrete Coring Services
  • Asphalt & Limerock Thickness Determinations
  • Limerock Total Carbonates Tests
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Threshold Inspection

Our personnel have provided Special Inspection services on numerous structures throughout Florida. Projects have included educational buildings, health care facilities, office buildings, governmental buildings, and mid- to high-rise condominium structures.

Inspection Services

  • Threshold (Special) Inspection Services are provided in accordance with Chapter 61G15, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.).
  • All Authorized Special Inspection Representatives employed by YPC Consulting Group, P.L. comply with Chapter 61G15, F.A.C., which requires Authorized Representatives to be engineers, architects, registered building inspectors, or registered general contractors. Specifically, our inspectors are either engineers or registered building inspectors with the International Code Council (ICC).

Geotechnical Engineering

Our team has vast experience in Southwest Florida in the geotechnical exploration and engineering field.

Geotechnical Services

  • Subsurface explorations using Standard Penetration Test (SPT) borings.

  • Subsurface explorations using Piezocone Penetration Test (PCPT) soundings.

  • Foundation studies and engineering services to analyze and evaluate the most cost-effective foundation solutions, including conventional spread footings foundations, augered cast-in-place pile foundations, driven precast concrete pile foundations, timber pile foundations, ground improvement using vibroreplacement and/or vibroflotation techniques, cement stabilized vertical columns supported foundations, and foundation underpinning.

Ground Improvement

Monitoring and testing services for ground improvement techniques such as vibroreplacement and vibroflotation.

Ground Services

  • Monitoring vibroreplacment or vibroflotation operations designed to achieve ground improvement prior to construction of conventional shallow foundation systems.  This consists of inserting a large vibrating probe into the ground, and replacing lost soil volume resulting from consolidation with either sand (vibroflotation) or stone columns (vibroreplacement).
  • Post-improvement verification testing using the piezocone penetration test method, in order to verify that the anticipated level of improvement has been attained.

Vibration Monitoring

The professional staff at YPC Consulting Group, P.L. possesses the equipment and technical expertise to monitor vibrations resulting from any source.

Vibration Services

  • Subsurface explorations using Standard Penetration Test (SPT) borings.

  • Subsurface explorations using Piezocone Penetration Test (PCPT) soundings.

  • Foundation studies and engineering services to analyze and evaluate the most cost-effective foundation solutions, including conventional spread footings foundations, augered cast-in-place pile foundations, driven precast concrete pile foundations, timber pile foundations, ground improvement using vibroreplacement and/or vibroflotation techniques, cement stabilized vertical columns supported foundations, and foundation underpinning.

Foundations

Pile installation, monitoring, and testing services for deep pile foundation systems

Foundation Services

  • Installation monitoring of augered cast-in-place concrete piles.
  • Augered cast-in-place concrete pile grout strength testing.
  • Installation monitoring for driven precast concrete piles.
  • Installation monitoring for timber piles.
  • Static compression and tension pile load test monitoring (with or without vibrating wire strain gauges).
  • Installation monitoring and load testing for helical piers.
  • Dynamic pile load testing using the Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA).

Pre-Construction Structure Surveys

YPC Consulting Group, P.L. has vast experience in the evaluation of existing structures to document existing damage prior to construction. This service is required by the City of Naples and other governmental agencies prior to installation of driven piles.

Survey Services

  • Documentation of existing conditions of nearby structures prior to blasting, rock excavation, or pile installation operations.  Documentation is achieved using video cameras operated by professional engineers.
  • Expert consulting services to minimize the effects of vibrations on adjacent structures.

Construction Training Qualification Program (CTQP)

YPC Consulting Group, P.L. staff members are qualified in accordance with the Florida Department of Transportation Construction Training Qualification Program (CTQP) in the following areas:

Qualifications

  • Asphalt Paving Technician, Level 1
  • Asphalt Paving Technician, Level 2
  • Concrete Field Technician, Level 1
  • Concrete Laboratory Technician, Level 1
  • Earthwork Construction Inspection, Level 1
  • Earthwork Construction Inspection, Level 2
  • Aggregate Base Testing Technician
  • Limerock Bearing Ratio (LBR) Technician
  • Qualified Sampler Technician
  • Quality Control Manager
  • YPC can provide these laboratory and field services for roadway and highway projects.  Our laboratory is also accredited by the Construction Materials Engineering Council (CMEC) and is included on the Florida Department of Transportation Qualified Lab List database.

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Location

5931 Country Lakes Drive
Fort Myers, Florida 33905

Get In Touch

Office: (239) 693-7700
Fax: (239) 690-0271

Email Contacts

Mr. Yen-Po Chiu, P.E.
President
pchiu@ypcconsulting.com

Mr. H. Frank Murati, P.E.
Vice President
fmurati@ypcconsulting.com