Joe LAPSLEY

Joe LAPSLEY

Principal/Construction Services
Houston, TX

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Expertise

Commercial Education Government Infrastructure Residential Transportation
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Services

Testing & Special Inspections Concrete Inspection/Design/Testing Construction Materials Testing & Inspection Footing and Foundation Masonry Inspections Soil Testing Structural Steel Inspections Welding Inspections
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About Joe LAPSLEY

As a Project/Field Manager, Mr. Lapsley has performed laboratory testing for soil moisture-density relationship, Atterberg Limits, sieve analysis, moisture contents, unconfined compressive strengths, optimum lime-determinations, CBR's, concrete compressive strength, flexural strength, time-of-setting, aggregate soundness tests, aggregate abrasion tests, concrete length change and potential alkali silica reactivity testing in conformance with ASTM, AASHTO, and TXDOT testing procedures.

His field experience includes nuclear-density testing for soil backfill and fill placements, subgrade proofrolling observations, soil stabilization testing and monitoring, drilled pier and spread footing installation and monitoring, reinforcing steel inspections, plastic concrete field testing and strength sample fabrication, concrete and asphalt batch plant monitoring, structural masonry testing and inspection.

Professional Experience

Construction Observation • Field Observation & Testing • Special Inspection

Joe LAPSLEY is a Principal/Construction Services at SOCOTEC, with more than 36 years of industry experience and 15 years with the firm. He joined SOCOTEC through the acquisition of Ninyo & Moore, where he developed extensive expertise in construction observation, field observation & testing and special inspection.

Qualifications

Practice Areas

  • Construction Observation
  • Field Observation & Testing
  • Special Inspections

Certifications

  • NICET Certification No. 78415

- Level III Concrete
- Level II Asphalt
- Level II Soils

  • Radiation (Nuclear Gauge) User Safety

Affiliations

  • American Concrete Institute

Representative Projects

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  • Port of Houston, Construction of Container Yard 8, Bayport Facility, Houston, TX
  • Port of Houston, Rehabilitation of Wharves 4 & 5 at Barbours Cut Terminal, Morgans Point, TX
  • Port of Houston, Rehabilitation of Container Yard 3 at Barbours Cut Terminal, La Porte, TX
  • West Harris County Regional Water Authority, Surface Water Supply Project Segment B1-B2, Houston, TX
  • City of Sugar Land Public Works Service Center, Sugar Land, TX

PAVEMENT

  • Fort Bend Grand Parkway Toll Road Authority, Peek Road Overpass on State Highway 99, Richmond, TX
  • Harris County Toll Road Authority, Tomball Tollway & State Highway 249 Phase II, Tomball, TX

RESIDENTIAL

  • Harvest Green Development, Richmond, TX

EDUCATION

  • Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, Multiple Elementary, Middle, and High School Campuses, Classroom Building Additions & Renovations, Cypress, TX
  • Houston Independent School District, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX

STRUCTURES

  • Lifetime Fitness, Shenandoah, TX

Iconic Project

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    Clinton Terminal Concrete Silo Slip, TX

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Looking for a Construction Observation and Materials Testing expert in Texas?

Contact

Joe LAPSLEY

Expertise

Commercial Education Government Infrastructure Residential Transportation
+ See more

Services

Testing & Special Inspections Concrete Inspection/Design/Testing Construction Materials Testing & Inspection Footing and Foundation Masonry Inspections Soil Testing Structural Steel Inspections Welding Inspections
+ See more