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WE OFFER YOU PEACE OF MIND WHY SGS? SGS Matrolab offers our clients customised solutions to assist with confirming the SGS is the world’s leading inspection, quality, performance and durability of all civil engineering construction materials. To verification, testing and certification this end we offer a wide array of services including testing, research and assessment. company. Recognised as the global benchmark for quality and integrity, Why SGS MATROLAB? we employ over 85,000 people and SGS MATROLAB offers operate a network of more than 1,800 • Expert personnel and a professional laboratory for testing construction materials offices and laboratories around the world. We are constantly looking • Fit for purpose solutions for any type of client, whether it be government, beyond customers’ and society’s designer, contractor (raw materials) or supplier expectations in order to deliver • Impartiality: SGS Matrolab is an independent and impartial institute, that can market-leading services wherever therefore act as an objective third party, that is SANAS accredited in accordance they are needed. with the recognised international standard: ISO/IEC 17025: 2005. Partnering with SGS opens the door to better performing processes, increasingly skilful talent, consistent and compliant supply chains and more sustainable customer relationships delivering profitable competitive advantage. Work with the global leader and take your commitment to the next level. We have a history of undertaking and successfully executing large- scale, complex international projects. With a presence in every single region around the globe, our people speak the language and understand the culture of the local market and operate globally in a consistent, reliable and effective manner. In addition, we are the global leader in ISO 14001 certification and the most widely accredited certification body. To learn how SGS can help you exceed your customer expectations. Email: [email protected] SGS MATROLAB material testing services SGS Matrolab offers Civil Engineering, Geotechnical and Onsite Laboratories.

Scope of services: • Asphalt Testing • Tests on Bitumen • Soil & Aggregate Testing •• Complete Asphalt Mix Designs •• Dynamic Viscosity •• Sieve Analysis •• Complete Marshall Control •• Ball Penetration & Resilience •• Atterberg Limits •• Making of Asphalt Briquettes •• Compression Recovery •• Foundation Indicators •• Resistance to Flow and Stability •• Ring & Ball Softening Point •• Maximum Dry Density & •• Bulk Relative Density of Asphalt •• Flow Optimum Moisture Content Briquette or Core • Field Sampling & Preparation •• California Bearing Ratio •• Maximum Theoretical Relative •• Sampling from Sampling Pit in •• Unconfined Compressive Density Natural Gravel, Soil and Sand Strength of Stabilized Materials •• Voids in Asphalt Mix •• Sampling from Stockpiles •• Indirect Tensile Strength of •• Binder Content & Grading of •• Sampling from Conveyor Belts Stabilized Materials Asphalt mix •• Sampling of Previously Blended •• Wet & Dry Durability on •• Immersion Index Stabilized Materials (Ready mixed) Asphalt •• Air Permeability of briquettes •• Relative Density •• Sampling of Slurry Mixtures •• Indirect Tensile Strength •• Stabilizer Content •• Sampling of Freshly mixed • Tests on Concrete & Bricks Concrete •• pH & Conductivity value •• Complete Concrete Mix •• Sampling of Treated Pavement •• Aggregate Crushing Value Designs Layers •• 10% FACT •• Making, Curing and •• Sampling of Road pavement •• Flakiness Index Compressive Strength of Layers Concrete Test Cubes •• Bulk Densities of Coarse & Fine •• Sampling of Asphalt or Concrete Aggregate •• Making, Curing and Flexural from completed Layer or Strength of Concrete Beams •• Dry Bulk Density, Apparent Structure Relative Density & Water •• Slump of Freshly Mixed •• Division of a Sample using the Absorption Concrete Riffler •• Average Least Dimension •• Drilling, Preparation and Testing •• Division of a Sample by Strength of Cores Drilled from •• Sand Equivalent Quartering Hardened Concrete •• Concrete Durability Tests which is inclusive of Oxygen Permeability and Water Sorptivity •• Abrasion on Bricks •• Tensile Splitting Strength of Bricks •• Water Absorption on Bricks • Onsite Testing • Onsite Laboratory Services • Triaxial Testing •• In Place Density & Moisture •• Soils, Concrete, Asphalt and •• Unconsolidated, Undrained Content by the Sand Seals Laboratories to meet Triaxial Replacement Method the clients Scope of Services •• Consolidated, Undrained Triaxial requested. •• In Place Density & Moisture •• Consolidated, Drained Triaxial Content by Nuclear Methods •• Competent Personnel for all • Permeability Testing •• Measurement of the Insitu facets of Testing Services Strength of Soils by the provided •• Falling Head Permeability Dynamic Cone Penetrometer •• Verified / Calibrated Equipment •• Constant Head Permeability (DCP) that is specific to the scope of • Shearbox Testing service provided. •• Schmidt Hammer Test •• Consolidated, Drained Shearbox •• Texture Depth of a Road Surface • Laboratory Software Development test •• Ball Penetration Test for Surface •• SGS Matrolab has a software •• Dispersivity Testing Treatment Design division that specialises in the development of software for •• Pinhole Test •• Determination of the most civil Engineering testing •• Crumb Test Longitudinal Regularity of Road Surface by means of a Rolling •• Moisture Content Straight Edge •• Moisture Content & Density of •• Plate Bearing Tests SGS MATROLAB Undisturbed Sample • Geotechnical Investigations GEOTECHNICAL •• Relative Density / Specific Gravity •• Centreline Pavement SERVICES Investigations, Borrow pit and Quarry Investigations • Consolidation Tests •• Excavate, Profile, Sample and •• Consolidation Testing inclusive Reinstate Test Pits of Relative Density •• Sampling of Disturbed & •• Double Consolidation Testing Undisturbed Materials inclusive of Relative Density •• Sampling by means of Auger •• Collapse Potential Rapid test, •• Arrange Specialist Drilling Including Relative Density Services •• Collapse Potential followed by •• Arrange Specialist Geotechnical Consolidation, Including Relative Services Density •• Free Swell / Swell followed by Consolidation, Including Relative Density SGS MATROLAB projects

Gauteng Freeway Improvement Medupi Power Station Project Umgeni Interchange Projects Medupi Power Station is a new dry- The improvements to the umgeni Contract no. NRA N.001-192-2007/1 cooled coal-fired power station being Interchange are required to alleviate LS Precast Yard for the manufacture built by Eskom near Lephalale in the critical levels of traffic congestion of barriers for the Gauteng Freeway Limpopo province. Matrolab was being experienced due to the current Improvement Projects. privileged to be the service provider for split diamond interchange and signalised the provision of independent on site Intersections. Matrolab was the successful tenderer laboratory services to provide verification tor the Provision of on-site Concrete and testing of materials that were used Laboratory Services, which was inclusive Upgrading of the N2/M41 MT by the civil contractors on this project. of Concrete Durability Testing for W-Type Edgecombe Interchange to a free concrete. flow facility Lower Usuthu Smallholder SANRAL, jointly with the KZN Irrigation Project (Lusip) Gauteng Freeway Improvement Department of Transport, is upgrading Project (Package B, C and E2) Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation the existing N2/M41 Mt Edgecombe Project (Lusip) which involved the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project Interchange north of Durban to a construction of Mhlathuze, Golome (work package B) – contract no. NRA systems interchange that will provide Saddle Dams, offtake and spillway N.001-200-2008/2 for the upgrading of free-flow movements in all directions. for Swaziland Water and Agricultural National Road 1, Section 20, between Construction supervision for the 816 Development Enterprises (Swade) 14th Avenue & Buccleuch Interchanges. million Mount Edgecombe Interchange which includes two major viaducts; one is 440 m long and the 950 m long. international projects

Client Project Country Basil Read African Minerals: Pepel Sierra Leone for Sierra Leone, Africa the construction of private haul road RHDHV Pavement Investigation for the Liberia Rehabilitation of runways at Roberts International Airport Coyné et. Bellier Condo Dam Zimbabwe Maseru Roads BKS/Lesotho Public Works Lesotho China Jiangsu International Rehabilitation of Sewers Dar Es Salaam Tanzania TTCS Masunga Village Phase 3 Zambia BKS Global Calibration of equipment Zambia Angolan roads authority Laboratory and equipment inspection Angola Moore Spence Jones Road pavement investigation for Swaziland Mbabane to Ngwenya freeway. ED Simelane, STS consulting engineers, Commercial laboratory services in Swaziland Rob sawyer Mbabane Area Inyatsi Hire of Laboratory Reporting Software Swaziland Inyats Lab staff training and evaluation for Swaziland Sikhupe airport site Lesedi Consultants Land Board Offices Bothakga Burrow Abattoir City Council Botswana Bothakga Burrow Infrastructure Botswana Bothakga Burrow Masunga Dam & Access Road Botswana Bothakga Burrow to Dibete Botswana Client Project Country Bothakga Burrow Primary Schools Upgrading & Botswana Malwelwe Bothakga Burrow Mine – Rehab Structure Botswana Bothakga Burrow River Crossing – Manyana Botswana Bothakga Burrow Gaborone - Botswana TTCS Tlokweng Phase 2 Botswana Water Utilities Botswana Gaborone Dam Raising Botswana Water Utilities Botswana Metsemotlaba Dam Botswana Bothakga Burrow Mmashia – Oodi – Mabalane Road Botswana Roughton Upgrading Gaborone to Molepolole Botswana Roughton Molepolole – Lethlakang Botswana Roughton Radisele Access Road Botswana Moore penser & Jones Existing Road Gaborone Botswana Arctez Plot 20698 Gaborone Botswana TTCS Phase 2 Botswana Water Utilities Botswana Kolobeng Dam Botswana Uwaneng Town Council Training Personnel Botswana Debswana Various Botswana Africon & William Lee Associates Molepolole & Western Bypass Botswana Group 5 Gaborone Dam Botswana Group 5 Dam Botswana Steward Scott Opara Township Roads Botswana China Jiangsu International Weighbridges – Various Botswana China Jiangsu International Landfill Botswana Namibian Roads Authority Hire of Laboratory Reporting Software Namibia Access lab Staff training and evaluations Namibia Access lab Hire of Laboratory reporting software Namibia Namibian Roads Authority Staff training and evaluations Namibia Bicon Namibia Staff training and evaluations Rundu and Namibia Okandjatu sites CHICO Grootfontein site - Staff training and Namibia evaluations Moore Spence Jones Maputo Sugar terminal Mozambique CMC EN1 borrowpit investigation Mozambique Worley Parsons RSA (Pty) Ltd Liquid Gas Project @Pemba / Palma in Mozambique Mozambique BKS Global / Eteng EN1: Maputo – Beira (500 km) Mozambique Maputo to Ponto do Oura Road Profabril / ANE Mozambique Mozal Smelter - Maputo SNC- Lavelin -EMS Mozambique N4-Maputo Corridor SBB JV Mozambique EN1 : Maputo – Beira (500 km) BKS Global / Eteng Mozambique ANE Staff training and evaluations Mozambique BKS Global Laboratory equipment calibration and Mozambique inspection Beira Worley Parsons RSA (Pty) Ltd Liquid Gas Project at Pemba Mozambique Chokwe - Lagoanova Road BKS Global / ANE Mozambique Chisano to Chibuto Road BKS Global / ANE Mozambique EN1 : Magul + 180 km Staff training and evaluations Mozambique Mosref Laboratory equipment calibration and Mozambique inspection Beira Client Project Country ETENG / ANE Liquid Gas Project at Pemba Mozambique Parsons Global Limpopo Railline Rehabilitation Mozambique BKS Global EN221 Bene – Fingoe Mozambique CMC EN – (Manicha – Incoluane) Mozambique CMC Rio Ligonha Mozambique S&B Constr. Casino Polana Mozambique WBHO Maputo Port Stam Sugar Mozambique WBHO/Shearwater Matola Gas pipeline Mozambique Sinohydro EN1 - Vilanculos Mozambique BKS Global EN208 Guija – Chibuto Mozambique WBHO EN1 – (Zandamela – Inharrime) Mozambique CHICO EN1 – (Muxungwe – Inchope) Mozambique China Metallurgical Maputo Water Supply Mozambique Scott Wilson Maputo Port Sugar terminal Mozambique WBHO/CMC Massingir Dam Mozambique CMC Quelimane Port Mozambique CMC Moma Mozambique Seed Lda Maputo Roads Mozambique

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