Harbourside Expands Geotechnical and Materials Testing Services
A Decade of Harbourside Geotechnical Consultants
Harbourside Geotechnical Consultants, together with W.S. Langley Concrete and Materials Technology, offer one of the most comprehensive suites of materials engineering, testing, and Geotechnical services available in eastern Canada.
For the past 10 years, the geotechnical engineering consulting division of Harbourside has experienced constant, steady growth. Our concrete and materials services widened even further with the acquisition of W.S. Langley Concrete and Materials in 2024. After a decade of expansion, Harbourside is now home to some of the most comprehensive materials engineering and testing facilities available in eastern Canada.
To accommodate these services, we needed a new space.
Girl Guide Event at the Harbourside Geotechnical Lab in 2024
Expanding our Materials Testing Services
Our new facility is located centrally on Bluewater Road, in Bedford Nova Scotia and serves as our mobilization point for our numerous project sites across Nova Scotia.
With the opening of our new laboratory, we have more than doubled our capacity. This new space has allowed for us to better handle the ever-growing demand for geotechnical and materials engineering services across the eastern seaboard. With projects reaching the west coast, and as far south as the Caribbean Sea, our new laboratory allows us to service more projects than ever before.
With over 50 staff based from this location, the new space permits us to offer a greater range of materials testing services for our clients. This also enables us to be more responsive in the face of increased demand for those services.
Our new materials lab, as seen from its upper level. The expanded Harbourside geotechnical and materials laboratory is located 223 Bluewater Road, in Bedford, Nova Scotia.
Materials Testing and Geotechnical Engineering
Mobile Labs
In addition to our larger laboratory space, Harbourside Geotechnical Consultants also deploys mobile lab units to the field. Each of these labs are also CCIL certified under our Quality Management Plan and provide bespoke testing options but enable a high level of responsiveness for projects that require onsite access.
Celebrating the New Lab Space
With the advent of the August long-weekend in Nova Scotia, Harbourside’s Geotechnical and Materials division hosted a little get together at the new lab. Tours were given to the other divisions who might not yet have seen the new space, and, in true Harbourside fashion, there was also a barbeque out front. Though this transition to the new space was happening throughout the spring, this was the first chance we had to celebrate this next step together.
Staff starts trickling in from the Dartmouth office to pay a visit to the new harbourside materials testing lab in Bedford. The sun was high the day before the Natal Day long weekend.