SAINT JOSEPH INTEGRATED TECHNICAL COLLEGE

C/O JOSEPHITE BROTHERS

NYAMIRAMBO - KIGALI

P.o. Box 1330 Kigali

Tel: (+250) 0252574222; (+250) 0784003913

Website: www.sjitc.net

SAINT JOSEPH ENGINEERING COMPANY Ltd

SJEC Ltd

SAINT JOSEPH ENGINEERING- COMPANY LTD ACTIVITIES

The activities of SJEngineering-COMPANY are in five Engineering areas:

· Highway Engineering

· Building Construction

· Energy

· Hydraulic Engineering

· Geomatics Engineering

· Civil Engineering Laboratory Test

I. Activities in Highway Engineering:

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of reinforced concrete bridges,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of steel bridges,

· Design, rehabilitation , supervision and construction of wooden bridges,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of roads,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of Taxi park,

· Maintenance of the above infrastructures,

· Environmental impact evaluation and mitigating measures.

II. Activities in Building Construction:

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of reinforced concrete building structures,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of steel building structures,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of wooden building structures,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of building houses with a bricks structure,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of residential buildings,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of public buildings,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of industrial buildings,

· Design, rehabilitation, supervision and construction of agrarian buildings,

· Urban and rural planning.

· Environmental impact evaluation and mitigating measures.

III. Activities in the sector of Energy

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and construction of hydropower plants,

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and construction of thermo-power plants,

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and construction of solar-power plants,

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and construction of electrical networks,

· Environmental impact evaluation and mitigating measures.

IV. Hydraulic Engineering

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and execution of water supply projects,

· Design of water supply networks,

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and execution of water purification plants,

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and construction of waste water treatment plants,

· Design, rehabilitation, maintenance, supervision and construction of water tanks,

· Hydrological Study of catchment areas,

· Design and execution of Irrigation works: Water requirement for crops; irrigation systems; hydraulic structures.

· Environmental impact evaluation and mitigating measures.

V. Geomatics Engineering

· Topographic mapping,

· Land use planning,

· Hydrological mapping

· Agricultural mapping

· Transportation mapping

· Geological mapping

CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY TESTS

1. SOIL MECHANICS&GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

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Item Description

1.1

General tests

Natural moisture content

Liquid Limit only

Atterberg limits

Plastic limit only

Sieve analysis + (Hydrometer)

Sieve Analysis (wet sieve)

Sieve Analyisis(dry sieve)

Soil pH

Shrinkage Limit (Linear)

Specific Gravity

Organic matter

Dynamic penetrometer test

Sulfates test

1.2.

Compaction test

a) standard-protor 100 mm dia mould

b) modified protor 100 mm dia mould

c) standard protor 150 mm dia mould

d) Modified protor 150 mm dia mould

e)Triaxial test

f)Unconfined compressive test(drained)

g)Unconfined compressive test(Autographic)

1.3.

CBR Test(100% MDD)

a) unsoaked

b)soaked 2 days

c) soaked 4 days

d)Insitu CBR without (truck)

1.4

Bulk density (field method)

a) sand replacement per test

b) water balloon per test

c)Core cutter

Shear test

Permeability

Consolidation(Oedometer)

1.5

SAMPLING

a)Opening of trial pit 1x1m wide up to 1.5m deep

b)Exeeding 1.5m

Boring using hand Augers and sampling

Swell testing

Stress measurement using triaxial testing system

2. SJEC BUILDING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

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Item Description

1.1

Concrete testing

Concrete compressive strength (sample testing)

Concrete tensile strength (sample testing)

Concrete flexural strength (sample testing)

Concrete compressive strength (non destructive method)

Concrete permeability

Concrete slump test (by cone)

Concrete workability test (vebe test)

Air entrainment measuring

Bulk density measuring

Water test for concrete

Compaction factor measuring

Air permeability test

Concrete specific gravity

Concrete characteristic strength determination

1.2.

Cement testing

Setting time

Cement Compressive strength

Cement bulk density

Cement soundness

1.3.

Aggregates testing

Sieve analysis

Moisture measuring

Aggregates bulk density

Aggregates impact value

Aggregates crushing value

Standard aggregate crushing value

1.4.

Paving Tiles, and bricks testing

Impact failure test

Flexural test

Brick Compressive strength

Compressive strength paving material

1.5.

Steel reinforcement testing

Tenstile strength

Bending test

1.6.

Timber testing

Wood moisture test

Timber Tensile strength

Timber Compressive strength

Timber Flexural test

1.7.

Testing of existing civil engineering structures

Deflection mesuring

Steel reinforcement corrosion analysis

Detection of steel reinforcement in structure, measuring rebar depth and size of reinforcements.

Surface dampness measuring with a non-destructive radio frequency technique

3. SJEC SURVEYING LABORATORY

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Item Description

1

Surveying map production

2

Theodolite borrowing

3

GPS borrowing

N.B. When SJEC equipment is borrowed, it is always used by a SJEC technician.

4. SJEC TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING LABORATORY

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Item Description

1.1

Aggregates testing

Aggregates impact value

Aggregates crushing value

Los Angeles test

Brazilian test

Abrasion test

2.0

Testing of road pavement materials

Binder adhesion test

Flexural test for paving materials

Viscosity of bituminous materials

Determination of the degree of compaction of bituminous pavements for quality control purpose

Softening point determination

Water in bituminous materials

Determination of road deflection with Benkelman beam apparatus

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Quality and rapidity is our goal