Materials Evaluation and Research | Services

Services

Materials Evaluation
and Research

Integrating science with engineering is a key differential in WJE’s ability to provide sound solutions for problems in the built world.

Petar Plemic
Unit Manager and Principal

Bridge Engineering

Earthquake Engineering

Facade Assessment

Failure and Disaster Response

Historic Preservation

Litigation Consulting

Materials Evaluation and Research

Peer Review and Commissioning

Repair and Rehabilitation

Roofing and Waterproofing

Structural Evaluation

Testing and Instrumentation

When materials fail, structures fail. WJE's materials scientists provide comprehensive consulting services for the evaluation of construction materials—both new and old. A full range of services in petrography, microscopy, analytical chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, and physical testing of materials are offered in WJE’s Janney Technical Center in Northbrook, Illinois, and branch office laboratory facilities in Austin, Texas, and Cleveland, Ohio.

The combination of comprehensive materials sciences expertise with engineering and architectural capabilities uniquely positions and qualifies WJE to deliver innovative yet sound solutions to construction materials problems. Using state-of-the-art evaluation methods, many of which were pioneered at WJE, WJE materials scientists have a long history of performing foundational constructional materials related research and have solved thousands of construction materials problems—answering such questions as, Why did it fail? How long will it last? and How can it be fixed?

Materials testing and analysis

Materials failure investigation

Materials conservation

Inorganic/organic chemistry

Analytical chemistry

Petrographic evaluation

For more information, visit the Janney Technical Center.