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Geotechnical Contractors
 Remco
 

 

Corporate Information

 

Our Vision

 

We will continually explore and initiate geotechnical advancements to meet our customers' needs and provide opportunities for our personnel while moving forward to help people and companies maximize and extend the usefulness of their properties. Our commitment to excellence, training, and customer satisfaction will assure our continued success and the loyalty of our customers.

 

Our Mission

 

We will safely provide the highest quality of specialty contracting in a full range of geotechnical applications to our customers at a fair market price and in the best time possible. We will also combine our technology and experience with professionalism and integrity to provide the ultimate in customer satisfaction, maintaining the Corporation's name as the most trusted in our industry.

 

Our Course

 

With a ten-year background in cementitious and chemical grouting, Richard M. Berry incorporated Rembco in 1982. The initial geotechnical service was strengthening low density and water saturated soils by compacting them with grout. This grouting application opened topographical sites that were previously unsuitable for development. Shortly afterwards, Rembco initiated the use of compaction piles as supports for settling foundations, as columns from which foundations could be lifted, and as a means of leveling slabs, patios, and sidewalks.

During the next two years, Rembco led the grouting industry in compaction pile technology as an economical and safe means to support excavated walls of construction sites. This system is installed prior to the contractor's excavation, and it allows the contractor to completely excavate without the delays of conventional shoring.

In 1985, chemical grouting was added to the list of services. These grout materials include acrylics, acrylamides, epoxies, and polyurethanes. This technology is also suitable for "in situ" applications where the customer's operations must continue undisturbed. Chemical grouting is used to seal leaks in pipes, dams, mine shafts, walls, tunnels, and other structures. It is also used to encapsulate select areas in soils that have been contaminated with PCBs, mercury, and other toxic substances.

Rock anchors and rock bolts were the next services brought onboard in 1988. These anchors are used to secure fragmented stratums in mines, steep slopes, and vertical cuts, provide anchorages for foundations, and tie downs for structures with high wind loads or those built underwater which experience up-lift pressures. Rembco has installed rock anchors that individually have 1,000,000 pounds of tested capacity.

The Company initiated soil nailing in 1989. Rembco was one of the first companies in the US to stabilize slopes using the soil nailing system. The system is a method of securing unstable earth to underlying stable soils. The protruding portions of the nails are systematically covered with wire mesh, bars, and plates. A facing of shotcrete is then applied to secure the construction area from the top down, lift-by-lift.

In 1992, Clay Griffin joined the Company to refine existing services and expand them by adding drilled micropile and minipile foundations. These are used to transfer structural loads to deep bearing strata where overlying soils will not support designed structural loads.

Sinkhole remediation was the next service offered. The ground fault is corrected after determining drilling depth needed, grid pattern, injection rate, volume and pressure needed, and proper grout mix. We have successfully closed sinkholes under railroads, waste water treatment plants, streets and highways, parking lots, and various structures.

Admixture technology has played a prominent role in the improvement of specialty grouting at Rembco. These additives are used to enable and enhance particular properties of the grout for very specific applications. Our understanding of grouting objectives and the medium to be injected help us determine the optimal properties of the grout. Set time, viscosity, thixotropy, unit weight, compressive strength, and colloidal stability are all functions of mix design, and are optimized for each application.

Rembco began purchasing major pieces of equipment in 1996 to expand its ability to do larger geotechnical jobs. The equipment included crawler-style drill rigs, mobile grout pumps, automated mixing plants, volumetric grout-mixer, and single-pass drill and grout rigging. From that point, Rembco had the capability of successfully
competing for jobs above $1,000,000.

Eccentric downhole casing systems were brought onboard in 2001. These systems greatly increase the speed of rock drilling and provide a cleaner bonding area for the grout in bedrock sockets. They are especially useful in installing minipiles and rock anchors.
               
 
 

We at Rembco Geotechnical Contractors will continue to dedicate ourselves to excellence in our performance, in our integrity, and in our relationships with our customers. We will carefully weigh our decisions, actions,  and results to make sure that Rembco remains the most trusted name in the geotechnical contracting industry.

 

 
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