Budinger & Associates, Inc

Budinger & Associates, Inc. has been an industry leader in the Inland Northwest since 1976. Specialties include geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, exploratory drilling, laboratory analysis, construction material testing, and special inspection services. 

Professional and technical personnel include registered professional engineers, geologists, and certified field and laboratory technicians serving a wide range of clients including contractors, developers, property owners, municipalities and other government agencies.

Materials Testing and Special Inspection

Budinger & Associates, Inc. has been at the forefront of construction materials testing since 1976. A network of state-of-the-art laboratories, complimented by a fleet of mobile laboratories, allows Budinger to provide in-house testing for projects throughout the Northwest. 

Budinger subscribes to the most stringent inspection and certification requirements in the industry. They are recognized by agencies including Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL), American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and Washington Association of Building Officials (WABO) along with numerous cities and counties as a certified geotechnical, asphalt paving, materials testing and special inspection laboratory.

A construction materials laboratory is capable of testing virtually any structural material utilized in modern construction. Testing is performed by trained and certified technicians per relevant American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Western Alliance for Quality Transportation Construction (WAQTC) or WSDOT Test Methods. In addition, custom or modified test procedures can be performed upon request. Some testing equipment and capabilities include:

• Up to 400,000lb compression machines
• Nuclear densometers
• Relative humidity meters
• Vapor emission testing
• Floor flatness meters
• Core drills
• Anchor and Pile load testing
• Fire-proofing density and pull testing
• Full range of concrete masonry unit block testing

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories

Fully accredited geotechnical engineering laboratory is equipped to perform the standard tests needed in geotechnical engineering evaluations, including but not limited to:

• In situ density and moisture content
• Atterberg limits
• Sieve Analysis
• Maximum Dry Density
• Direct and Triaxial Shear
• Consolidation
• Expansion Index
• California Bearing Ratio
• Soil-Cement Mixture Design
• Soil-Cement Freeze/Thaw
• Constant/Flexible Wall Permeability
• Unconfined Compression
• Hydrometer Analysis
• Specific Gravity
• Organic Content
• pH
• Minimum Resistivity