“We have been working very actively at our BDSLT.
AATech Scientific has performed BDSLT across North
and South America in the last five years alone. We have
been coming up with innovative, updated, more efficient
and faster ways to perform this test, which we have done
this year for the South West Calgary Ring Road project in
Calgary, Alta. So, we’re not only expanding this service geographically
but also in innovation, by perfecting our method
of testing.”
AATech Scientific has worked on some high-profile projects,
including recent work on Edmonton’s Anthony Henday
Drive, which is the city’s ring road and one of Western
Canada’s busiest highways. They’ve also done work on
Vancouver’s SkyTrain system, Calgary’s LRT and Quebec’s
Beauharnois Bridge, a new toll bridge on Highway 30. They’ve
also done a lot of work in the Fort McMurray area (pre- and
post-fire) for the oil and gas industry, and worked all over
North America for CP Rail and various provincial ministries
of transportation.
Working in South America is a new development for the
company, but the region wasn’t initially a target of theirs,
according to Mohammadi.
“Some of our testing jobs arise from contractors wanting a
second opinion from us,” he said. “So we would then come
in and do alternative types of pile testing. When this happens,
we are glad to give our input; the demand is due to our
substantial experience in the field.”
Like many companies, AATech Scientific has to keep up
with the variety of regulations of the different jurisdictions in
which they find themselves working.
COMPANY PROFILE
“I always say that we have the
United Nations in our office.
We speak English, French,
Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu,
Spanish, Amharic, Mandarin
and Romanian.”
– Tony E. Mohammadi, AATech Scientific
“The different specs or the different safety requirements
sites have can differ from one state to one province to one
territory,” said Mohammadi. “We do have to work hard at
keeping updated as to the different requirements of the given
jurisdictions, and adapting to those is an important aspect
for our company’s health and safety.”
The team that Salem and Agharazi have assembled is an
impressive cosmopolitan crew. With the company’s founders
being Iranian (Agharazi), Lebanese (Salem) and Swedish
(Fellenius), the rest of the staff are equally international.
“I always say that we have the United Nations in our office,”
said Mohommadi. “We speak English, French, Persian, Arabic,
Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Amharic, Mandarin and Romanian. We
have a lot of different backgrounds, so we can communicate
fluently with almost everyone in the world.”
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