ABCG

Quality control/
Quality Assurance Department

● Architectural and Interior Design	● Structural Department
● Geotechnical Department	● Industrial, Electro-mechanical and Telecommunication
● Environmental Department	● Financial Consultancy and valuation Department

ABCG is committed to provide the Engineering market in Egypt with quality services and advanced up-to-date technologies. Led by two Ph.D holders, ABCG QA/AC team is supplemented by quality experienced senior engineers and qualified laboratory technicians. Services of QA/QS are offered for both the structural and geotechnical departments. These departments work either jointly or separately in projects according to the needs.

STRUCTURAL QA/QC:

For structural works, our department provides services in two different fields namely, steel structures and concrete structures. The following services are provided:

1.0 Concrete works:

(1) Consultancy and supervision

Supervising batch plant mixing
Design of concrete mix
Supervising and designing scaffolding
Supervising concrete casting and curing

(2) Testing

A comprehensive concrete testing laboratories including concrete parameters equipment are available. The department owns and operates three laboratories in Egypt. Laboratories may be established at locations of new projects as may be required. The laboratories have the capability of performing tests on concrete components, fresh concrete and hardened concrete. Each of the laboratories incorporate the following equipment:

Compression concrete strength machine with load of 2000 kN.
Sieves for Sand grain size distribution
Sieves for Gravel grain size distribution
Shaker for Sand and gravel grain size distribution
Set of scales for weighing ranging from 2 kg to 20 kg with accuracy of 0.01 to 1 gm.
Water content
Vicate equipment for testing the setting time of cement
Shaking table for preparing mortar cubes
Slump test
Temperature gauge.

Tests performed at the Concrete Laboratory

(a) Hardened Concrete
Concrete compressive strength
Core tests
Schmidit Hammer

(b) Fresh Concrete
Slump test
Temperature of mix

(c) Concrete components
Grain size (sieve analysis)
Fines modulus
Dust Content
Flakiness of aggregates
Moisture Content
Crushing strength of gravel
Cement setting time
Mortar cubes compressive strength.

(d) Chemical Analysis for aggregates and water samples

Chemical analysis for aggregate samples.
Chemical analysis for water samples.

(C) Chemical Analysis for soil and water samples

Chemical analysis for soil samples for geotechnical studies
Chemical analysis for water samples for geotechnical and agricultural needs.

2.0 Steel works:

(1) Consultancy and supervision

Supervising and designing steel works
Supervising steel placement and connections
Workshop drawings issuing and revision

(2) Testing

Supervision of all required testing of steel works

Monitoring tests performed at the structural department

Strain gauges
Rebar stress meter
Load cells
Joint meters and crack meters
Tape extensometer