Laboratory services
AMEC´s full-service analytical laboratories offer cost-effective scientific analysis to all industrial, resource, commercial, and government clients in Canada, the United States, and strategic international markets. The Canadian Association of Environmental Analytical Laboratories has certified and accredited the company´s laboratories for specific tests.
In addition to certification, AMEC participates in numerous round robins for water, soil, and other matrices to ensure ongoing testing accuracy. AMEC´s laboratories constantly upgrade equipment and instrumentation in response to improvements in technology. This effort increases automation to ensure the quality and quick turn-around of results.
Value added services
- Field sampling support
- Technical support for result interpretation
- Rush analysis for time sensitive projects
- Custom reporting to include guidelines
- Flagging of outliers
Guideline packages
- Tier I and II
- Provincial / state
- Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME)
- Compost analysis
- Hazardous waste
- Interim management of petroleum sites
- Landfill criteria
- Leachates
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Priority pollutants
- RCRA waste characterization
Certification / accreditation
- Canadian Association of Environmental Analytical Laboratories (CAEAL)
Guideline parameters
- Creosote
- Volatile organics
- Herbicides
- Monoaromatic hydrocarbons
- Pesticides
- Phenolics
- PCB
- Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
- Trace metals
- Dioxins, furans
Remediation treatibility studies
- Microbial investigations
- Biofouling elimination
- Mass balance analysis
- Kinetic analysis
- Microcosm studies
- Small scale bioreactors (soil, water, air)
- Scale formation studies
- Nutrient analysis
- Soil washing
- Thermal destruction
Waste characterization
- Hazardous waste
- Trace organics
- Landfill requirements
- PCB´s
- Solvent scan
- Trace metals
Membership
- Canadian Association of Environmental Analytical Laboratories
- Alberta Water Analysis Committee (AWAC)
- Western Enviro-Agricultural Laboratory Association (WEALA)
- CCIL (Canadian Council of Independent Laboratories)
Quality assurance and control programs
- CAEAL
- AWAC
- WEALA
- Environment Canada
- U.S. Soil & Plant Analysis Council
AMEC is committed to its clients, employees, and to the environment. AMEC believes in personalized service, efficiency, professional excellence and the highest standard in Quality Assurance and Quality Control.