STRATA ENGINEERING PROFILE

Message From The Director:
Engineer Ahmad Iqbal “Ahmadi”
President and General Mnager of
Strata Engineering & laboratory Service
Dear Readers,
From the core of heart I appreciate every
one and all socials who trust the quality ,
standardize society and environment. it’s
honor that the Afghans has got energy and
ability to be capable of CMT and
Construction Services companies in
homeland country by having qualied and
professional staff to help or assist the GOA,
national authorities and organizations.
My vision and mission for initiating the strata
Engineering Services is to take part in
reconstruction, rehabilitation and rebuilding
of our country to have peaceful, progressive
, build and clean society.
I value the priority to get satisfaction of all
who willing to use Strata’s Services.
I am deeply thankful of my colleagues and
staff who has always cooperated this
organization to stay honest and patriotic.
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Strata physical address is as bellow;
our main Lab (Ofce) is
located in opposite to
sello-e-markazi behind
tasdai meli bus house
#4. as shown in map
you can nd us with out
any hesitation.
+93(0)786676304 / +93(0)780785001 / +93(0)779106505
Info@stratalaboratory.com
Labmanager@stratalaboratory.com
CEO@stratalaboratory.com

Company Introduction:
Strata Engineering & laboratory Services. Is a construction Material
testing Laboratory and Construction Company, established in 2012 from
Departing an another Private business organization then after regularly
certied by USACE –AED (North), USACE-AES (South), KMDP, NRRP, World
Bank, UNOPs....etc. and Having eld lab setup and Branch ofces in all
over Afghanistan by having qualied and professional staff and standard
equipment is being Capable of providing the CMT Lab services.
Laboratory is the third party working to expose the reality according to
international standards and follow what Government acquire which is to
build a bright and progressive homeland “Afghanistan", I wish and
recommend all of my colleagues to stay honest and work for reality and
Standardized and prosper construction.
www.stratalaboratory.com

General Information:
Strata Engineering and laboratory services is an Afghan
owned construction material testing laboratory services by
having the expert and talented staff which is established in
2012 and by having the honor of regularly certication by the
National and international clients and organizations and
donors.
it has been an honor and a privilege to the whole team of
Strata Engineering to dedicating the highest level of services
in the country and beyond the borders.
As mentioned before Strata Engineering by having the widest
range of the infrastructures projects in all over the Country.
we are available in the bellow maintained provinces and
zones;
1- Kabul (Capital)
2- Jalal Abad
3- Laghman
4- Khost
5- Gardiz
7- Kandahar
8- Urozgan
9- Herat
10- Mazar-e- Sharif
11- Takhar
12- Kundoz
13- Kapisa
14- Baghlan
15- Logar

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Our Mission:
its our obligation and our
m o s t i m p o r t a n t
responsibilities to carry
out the existing quality of
the material for our
clients as per their Spec.
we are performing the
preferred tests on the
material in main lab and
in the sites of the works
a c c o r d i n g l y t o t h e
i n t e r n a t i o n a l
Specications like ASTM,
AASHTO, BS, ACI,..

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Our Vision:
our vision is to satisfy our clients and contractors as per existing low and regulations of
the country to have a little share of service to the motherland, and to encourage the
whole team and staff to fallow the recommendations of the specs and national low.
we are giving the training of the well ethics and well performance in all departments
for a reliable result of job assigned.
in the meantime we are giving the privilege of employment to the expert, well
trained, native countryman. for the eliminating the poverty rate in the country.
Strata is a most trusted company in the country in CMT services, hence we are not
letting the others to abuse or defame the national cultures and Customs.
its our most important job to take care of our contractors and clients regarding any
issue we are available 24/7 by the maintained adds and Cells in this prole.

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Organizational Chart of Strata Engineering
This organizational chart is describing the STRATA ENGINEERING staff and
quality management team as bellow of the main lab.

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Field of Services:
Strata Engineering and laboratory services is an accredited, justied under
ABA-LCP - USACE ... company by offering a wide range of the most effective and
reliable services in all over the country by having the update calibrated digital
and motorized Machineries and devices for performing the test as per related
national and international specications.
1- Geotechnical investigation.
2- Water wheel Designing and Hydro geological assessments.
3- Engineering services.
3.1- Design.
3.2- Survey.
3.2 Construction.
4- Laboratory tests.
4.1- Steel Tests.
4.2- Soil tests.
4.3- Aggregate tests.
4.4- Masonry tests.
4.5 - Concrete tests.
4.6- Cement tests.
4.7- Asphalt tests.
4.8- Bitumen tests.
4.9- Water tests.
4.10- Chemical Analysis.
Our Field of Services Consist In;

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Geotechnical Investigation Department of Strata Engineering
and Laboratory services.
From the establishment of strata she has been investigate a huge number of
Geotechnical investigations according to the international specications and
standards, the projects of geotechnical investigations are going to be supervised
and controlled and conducting of all required tests and analysis in site and lab by the
professional and well experienced team.
As well it's the Strata privlige and priority and different from other labs that she have
the most advanced and calibrated Equipments, machineries, and devices for
carrying out the result of the samples.

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A Geotechnical Investigation
process and implementation steps:
we are carrying out the GI projects
as per related specication for
different structures like Dams,
Tunnels, Roads/Highways, bridges,
Buildings, and any other structure.
hence rst of all for the reaching to
the actual and existing result and
description of the materials we
need to consider some important
bellow mentioned steps.
1; Site Visit (Studying of the
background of area.
2; Disk meeting and provision for the
GI.
3; Preparing and Submitting of the
GI Plan.
4; Boreholes Drilling and Test pits
exploration.
5; Collection of Disturbed and
undisturbed Samples from the BH
and TP as per specications.
6; providing the circumstance for
the handling and mobilizing the
Specimens to the lab for further
actions and tests.
7; Lab analysis of the specimens.
8; Writing of the GI Report by the
existing professional and Highly
experienced Geotech expert.

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Water Wheel Design:
Water is the only thing that can satisfy the needs of
the mankind till end of the world.
hence when we consider the water so important
for the life of the world so we need to manage it in
any case anywhere any time. Strata engineering
and laboratory services by having the expert and
professional staff for the boring and designing and
testing of all types of the wheels in all over the
nation.
for the better and standard way of managing the
mother earth’s water and surviving the people
from the lake of the water, and as well for the long
lasting and sustainability of the water wheels we
need to observe some bellow mentioned terms
and procedure.
1; Geophysical, Hydrological and geological
study of the destination place.
2; Drilling of wheel by Rotary and Mud methods.
3; Soil sampling for test and chemical analysis.
4; Water sampling for Chemical tests.
5; Installation of Casing and screen and cleaning.
6; Wheel development.
7; Pumping test of wheel.
8; Recovery test of wheel.
9; Fining Aquifers.
10; Pump installation.
11; Water sampling.
12; Water Quality testing.

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Strata Soil Advance and Primary tests:
We are conducting the below maintained test as per ASTM, AASHTO, ACI, CRD, AED, and any
preferred national and international standards.
1; Particle size sieve analysis of Soil.
2; Dry preparation of soil sample for particle size analysis and determination of soil constant wt.
3; Liquid limit, plastic limit, Shrinkage limit and Plasticity index of soil.
4; Moisture density (Unit wt)relation of soil-cement mixture.
5; Laboratory compaction characteristic of soils using standard and modied efforts.
6; S.PG of Soil.
7; Amount of material in soil ner than 0.075micron or #200 sieve.
8; Density and unit wt of soil in place by sand cone and Laser method.
9; Determination of Soil California Bearing Ratio (CBR)
10; Unconned compressive strength of cohesive soil.
11; Direct shear of soil.
12; Permibilty of Soil.
13; Consolidation of soil.
14; Plate load test of existing soil.
15;Percolation test of site.
16; Determination of moisture content of soil and rock by microwave oven.
17; Correction of unit wt and water content for soils containing over size particles.
18; Use of dynamic cone penetrometer in shallow pavement applications.
19; Classication of soil and soil aggregates for engineering purposes according to USCS.
20; Description and identication of soils materials (Visual procedure)
All other test which are going to required for any client any where any time.

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Aggregate and Rock Tests:
1; Sampling from the preferred source.
2; Sieve analysis of ne and coarse aggregates.
3;Bulk density (Unit wt) of aggregates.
4;Moisture determination in ne and Coarse
aggregates.
5;Soundness of aggregate by using of (No2So4)
sodium sulphate or magnesium sulphate.
6;Material ner than No.200 sieve in mineral
aggregate by washing method.
7;S.pg and absorption of ne and coarse
aggregates.
8;Resistance to degradation of large and small
size of aggregates by abrasion (LA) machine.
9;Determination of Aggregates impact Value.
10;Determination of clay lumps and friable
particles in aggregates.
11;Sand Equivalent of sand and ne aggregates.
12;Dtermination of Flat and Elongated particles.
13;Determining the percentage of Fractured
Faces and crushed faces of particles in
aggregates.
14;Stone compressive strength tests.
15;Stone water absorption and bulk density.
16; And all required tests of Stone and precious
rocks.

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we have the privlige of the maintained tests that others cant able to this in the site and
their labs, by doing the trails of different marks of Concrete mix designs.;
1;Casting and making of Cylindrical and cubical specimens in site.
2;Slump and Temperature of freshly mixed concrete cement.
3;Air content of hydraulic cement mortar.
4;Curing of concrete specimens in standardized environment.
5;Caping of cylindrical and cubical specimens.
6;Compressive strength of cubical and cylindrical specimens.
7;Measurment of concrete thicknesses by Drilling machines (Coring machine).
8;Rebound Hammer tests on vertical, Flat and horizontal structures.
9;Cement consistency limit.
10;initial and nal setting time of cement.
11;Finnes modulus of cement.
12;soundness of cement.
13;Air voids, absorption and density of Hardened Concrete.
14; All Required tests of cement and concrete tests which are going to refer by our clients.
Concrete, Cement, Grout and Mortar tests:

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Asphalt Bitumen Tests;
Strata Engineering have the full digital option of Asphalt and bitumen
machines for carrying out a standard and effective result of the materials.
We are doing the bellow maintained tests in our main lab and meanwhile in
our site labs.
1; Preparation of bitumens sample for the tests.
2; Penetration of the Bitumens.
3; Softening point of bitumens.
4; Flash and re point of Bitumens.
5; Ductility test of Bitumens.
6; Effect of heat and air on asphaltice material by (Thin-Film oven test).
7; Kinematic Viscosity test of Bitumens.
8; Density of semi solid bituminous materials By (Pycnometer).
9; Preparation of JMF in lab As per MS2-ASTM-AASHTO and other national
and international standards.
10; Sampling of the Asphaltic material from paving site for Quality tests.
11; Quantitive Extraction of Bituminous materials.
12; Mechanical sieve analysis of extracted aggregates.
13; Preparation of marshal cake specimens.
14; Bulk specic gravity and density of none absorptive of compacted
bituminous mixtures.
15; Theoretical maximum specic gravity of and density of bituminous
pavement mixtures.
16; Percentage of Air voids in compacted dense and open bituminous
paving mixtures.
17; Marshal stability and ow of the bituminous mixtures.
18; Retain stability test of Bituminous mixtures.
19; Coating and stripping of bitumen aggregate mixtures.
20; Drilling of Cores by coring machine.
21; Compressive strength of Bituminous mixtures.
22; Determining of Temperature of Asphaltic and bituminous materials.

Strata Engineering by having the most advance and
calibrated devices and equipments in her main Branch
and site ofces for the conducting the Masonry unit tests
as bellow;
1; Compressive strength of Rocks.
2; Specic Gravity and water absorption of the Rocks.
3; Soundness and Loss angles abrasion of the Rocks.
4; Testing of All types of the Masonry Bricks.
5; Absorption and Bulk specic Gravity of the Bricks.
6; Capping and Compressive Strength of the Bricks.
7; Eforescence tests of Bricks.
8; All required tests of the masonry units like Mortar, Grout
and Plasters.
We are Performing all of the Tests of the stones and
bricks that other labs are doing this beyond the border of
the country.
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Bricks Stone Masonry Concrete Units Tests;

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Steel Testing Section of Strata
Engineering and lab services;
Since establishment of Strata engineering she has
been carried out a huge number of steel testing by
full digital and expert technicians for deferent
types of steels and other steel materials.
1; Determination of Yield and Tensile point of steels.
2; Elongation of all types of steel materials.
3; Bend Test for the deferent types of the steels.

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Survey and Topography Team of Strata Engineering
and Lab Services;
Strata Engineering by having qualied and expert staff for performing the deferent types of the deferent
structures in all over the nation by having the most advance equipments for the bellow mentioned
surveying steps.
1; Topographical and detail survey of the deferent structures.
2; Civil works/Construction survey.
3; Audit Survey.
4; Surface and volume survey.
5; GPS Control.
6; Precise geodetic survey.
7; Survey for the As built drawings in deferent strata and deferent structures.

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Design and Construction department of Strata
Engineering and lab services;
Since establishment of Strata including of the Quality control of the National and
international clients’s projects we have conducted and performed the Designing of
the Buildings heavy structures ,Dames ,Commercial buildings ,and infrastructure
projects in all over the Afghanistan.
Hence we are Highly Capable of the Designing From the Foundation up to Ceiling,
From Bas to top by Highly experienced and most certied staff by national and
international Clients and contractors.

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Calibration Department Of
Strata Engineering and
Laboratory Services.
its one of the main and remarkable
privilege and honor of Strata engineering is
to have the qualied and highly
experienced staff for the calibration of any
types of the construction material testing
labs and bellow mentioned items by full
advance and high technology instruments
and machines.
1; Construction material testing lab
equipments from Spatula to Advance
testing machines.
2; We are much able to perform the
concrete and asphalt batch plants
calibration by standard and dependable
method of loading in all types of plants like
China, Japanese, Indian,...
3; We are doing this beyond the border of
the capital in all regions of the Country by
cheep price.

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A brief Sample ofA brief Sample of
our accomplishedour accomplished
Projects in year 2016Projects in year 2016
A brief Sample of
our accomplished
Projects in year 2016

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Gallary of Strata Engineering Lab

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Gallary of Strata Engineering LabGallary of Strata Engineering Lab

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Exposing ABA-LCP/USACE Inspection of Strata Main Lab 2016& 2017

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WE ARE CERTIFIED UNDER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
CLIENTS SPECIALY ABA-LCP/USACE

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