Bowser-Morner, Inc. – Testing Laboratories

Quality control/quality assurance services for Contractors. Bowser-Morner brings a wealth of experience with major highway, bridge, rail, and airfield projects. Our team has proven its capabilities across thousands and thousand of miles of pavements and structures, making us the smart choice for your next local, state or federally-funded transportation project.

Bowser-Morner ‘s experienced group of construction materials technicians work on site and in tandem with the experts in our construction materials labs to provide complete QC/QA services for:

• Concrete (per ODOT SS 898)
• Asphalt density control with nuclear gauges (per ODOT Item 448)
• Asphalt placement temperature and thickness monitoring
• Asphalt coring for thickness, density and compaction verification
• Compaction of soil and aggregates used for embankments, pavement subgrades, mechanically stabilized earth walls and utilities (per ODOT Item 611 and ODOT SS 878, SS 879, and S 1015)
• Chemical stabilized subgrades and embankments (per ODOT S 1120)

Quality control services for Materials Suppliers. Aggregate, asphalt and concrete suppliers turn to Bowser-Morner to supplement their regular quality control operations and verify that the materials they supply to transportation projects meet the requirements of the regulatory agency. These services can include:

Asphalt Production

• Technician services for in-plant production quality control testing
• Verification of aggregate properties and gradations
• Monitoring of asphalt temperatures and loading and handling procedures

Aggregate Production

• Sampling and testing of aggregate products to verify compliance with agency requirements
• Independent verification of appropriate stockpiling, handling and load-out procedures
• Evaluation of aggregates for alkali-silica reactivity and freeze-thaw durability requirements

Concrete Production

• Development and/or verification of mix design proportions to meet agency and project requirements
• Plant quality control testing services to verify the properties of the concrete as shipped or received on site
• Verification of concrete aggregate quality properties
• Verification of concrete performance properties
• NRMCA plant inspections of temporary and permanent facilities

Quality assurance and quality control services for local public agencies.

Local transportation agencies receiving state and/or federal funding are frequently mandated (as a condition of the funding) to provide quality assurance for their projects to verify that the materials utilized meet the project requirements. However, many local agencies do not in-house technical capability to fulfill these quality assurance duties, and in these cases, they turn to Bowser-Morner to provide the required earthwork, concrete and asphalt quality assurance testing.

Our in-plant and on-the-job materials testing and monitoring services help ensure that the earthwork, concrete, asphalt and other materials are produced and placed in compliance with specifications so that the finished project will perform according to design expectations.

Your Quality Destination for Transportation Projects

Construction materials laboratory testing, aggregates, concrete, masonry, soils, analytical chemistry, and calibration services. 

Building projects are only as good as the materials they’re made of.  That’s why the experts at Bowser-Morner offer reliable, repeatable, and timely testing in our Construction Materials Testing Laboratory.

Bowser-Morner offers a full battery of physical and chemical testing on a wide variety of construction materials—including aggregate, concrete, stone and masonry, and asphalt—to tell you what you need to know about the construction materials you produce or use.

We work closely with field technicians and engineers, contractors, producers, manufacturers, and regulatory agencies to validate the quality of materials, ultimately helping to reduce overall project risks and protect our client’s bottom line.

Bowser-Morner’s experienced team strictly adheres to all applicable ASTM test methods, allowing us to serve as a trusted QA or QC source.  Many of our technicians are certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET).  And our Construction Materials Testing Laboratory maintains numerous accreditations and certifications, including:

• AASHTO R-18 and ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited
• Approved by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)
• Approved by the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources
• Approved by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT)
• Approved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Transportation Cabinet
• Validated for testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Whether you need to authenticate the quality of the materials you are producing or you need to be sure the materials you are using in the field are up to spec, you can trust the Bowser-Morner Construction Materials Testing Lab to meet your testing needs.

Our knowledge of subsurface conditions and extensive experience with construction observation and quality assurance work means whatever problem you face, we’ve likely seen it— and solved it—before.