Unconventional Solutions— Research and Development Services

At Alpha Adroit, we routinely use the generally accepted industry and local practices—the conventional solutions— when providing our clients with geotechnical engineering, materials testing, concrete testing, soil compaction testing, and environmental consulting services. In many cases, these conventional solutions have been developed over many years and have worked well for local geology, available local construction technologies, and local worker skills.

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At Alpha Adroit, we also appreciate state-of-the-art practices, innovative solutions, top-notch modern technologies, and expectation-raiser thinking —the unconventional solutions— to satisfy the demanding challenges of the industries we serve.

We grow our diversified global team of rare talents, inventors, professors, multi-discipline researchers, local experts, advanced numerical modeling, and custom-designed laboratory and field testing technologies to effectively sense, interpret, analyze, model, and solve our clients' most challenging problems.

 

What distinguishes Alpha Adroit is our built-in culture for "lean and clean methods": making things more effective in achieving what they are intended to provide via eliminating unnecessary steps and by making things simpler, less costly, and faster. We create creative solutions by substituting, combining, adapting, magnifying, modifying, improving, putting to other uses, rearranging, reversing, eliminating, adding, and other methods.

 

Some of our innovative achievements and R&D interests are listed below:

Inventions

    • Inventing FRP piezometer for measuring pore-water pressure in partially frozen soils and tight geologic formations - Patent: United States Patent US 9,140,615 B2
    • Inventing instrument for characterizing frost properties of soils for construction purposes (patent pending)
    • Artificial intelligence algorithm for foundation design (patent pending)

Research Interests

    • Developing project-specific and site-specific load and resistance factors for Limit States Design (LRFD- LSD)Composite Material Development and Testing
    • Developing practice procedures based on state of the art, best practices, and unique methods for special projects
    • Geotechnical risk evaluation and mitigation for complex projects
    • Enhancing and exploring applications of tire crumbs and other industrial wastes in civil engineering projects
    • Developing and testing new construction materials and equipment
    • Research and development of premium and special use concrete, mortars, and grouts
    • Researching containment and remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination (PHC) in permafrost and cold regions
    • Examining geomaterial and construction material properties under extreme environmental conditions
    • Bio-remediation
    • Permafrost and frozen ground engineering
    • Deep excavations and earth retaining systems
    • Development of new instruments 
    • Instrumentation and monitoring
    • System development
    • Nano Technology
    • Non-Destructive Testing 
    • Geotechnical engineering investigation techniques for delta formations and artificial islands

Algorithms and Software Interests

    • Development of databases and processing systems for Big Data
    • Development of systems for data acquisition for geotechnical engineering instrumentation
    • Data mining
    • Data Visualization
    • Machine Learning (ML) and the development of intelligent systems for systematic learning 
    • Genetic algorithm engineering 
    • Artificial Neural Network
    • Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Mining, and Machine Learning (ML) for a wide range of engineering risk assessments, predictions,  optimization, failure detection, forensic engineering, and systematic learning
    • Blockchain Technology, Digital Twin, BIM, IoT, PIM, and AIM
    • Development or enhancement of existing proprietary codes in the following programming languages: Python, R, Borland Delphi, C++, Turbo Pascal, Fortran, and Basic 

Ask us!

Share your challenging problems with us and have our innovative, multi-disciplinary team on your side to:

    • provide you with alternative state-of-the-art solutions
    • advance your Research and Development (R&D) project
    • develop numerical codes for your particular engineering problems
    • team up with you

— Call us Toll-Free: 1-844-4-ADROIT (1-844-423-7648), or please get in touch with us here for more information.

We provide research and development services in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Manitoba. We also offer services in international locations directed through our headquarters office in Edmonton, Alberta.