Soil-Mat Engineers & Consultants Ltd. is a professional consulting engineering office serving private developers, industry, municipal, provincial and federal governments, contractors, and private home owners. The range of expertise offered by Soil-Mat Engineers includes geotechnical and environmental engineering, construction quality control and materials testing.
Soil-Mat provides the expertise and know-how of an engineering team steeped in decades of supplying professional consulting services to domestic and international clientele. With a driving commitment to a high standard of quality service and value to all of our clients, Soil-Mat Engineers is ready to meet the technical, schedule and budget requirements of any project. Our professional team is experienced in working with municipal and government agencies including Planning and Building Officials, Ministry of the Environment and local Conservation Authorities.
Soil-Mat Engineers has been in operation in Hamilton since 1992. Founded by Danny Schebesch, P.Eng., John Monkman, P.Eng., and Gil Adams Soil-Mat Engineers has established itself as a well-respected firm within the development and construction sectors. Stephen Sears, P.Eng. [Designated Consulting Engineer] and Ian Shaw, P.Eng. complete the complement of engineers, with Keith Gleadall managing the environmental science section and Jim Thomson supervising the team of construction quality control technicians. The firm continues to operate on the same core values on which it was founded, providing a high standard of service and value to all of our client’s projects.
Located in Hamilton the office is well positioned to serve a wide area of the Niagara peninsula and the western Greater-Toronto area, and beyond. Soil-Mat Engineers maintains a Category 1 CCIL Certified concrete testing laboratory and has CCIL Certified concrete testing technicians on staff. In addition the firm maintains a full service soils and aggregate testing laboratory. Our testing services include many specialised procedures, such as hydraulic conductivity, rapid chloride penetration testing of concrete, percolation time testing for septic bed design, consolidation testing, and others.
Soil-Mat Engineers offers an experienced staff of Professional Engineers, geoscientists, and technicians to meet the needs of any project. Currently our technical staff include five licenced Professional Engineers, five Engineers in Training, two environmental scientists, and sixteen field and laboratory technicians. All of the firm’s work is supported by a dedicated group of administrative support staff.