Soils & Engineering Services

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Who is SES?
Soils & Engineering Services, Inc. (SES) is a family-owned and operated consulting engineering firm located in Madison, Wisconsin. We have been serving clients on projects located in the Madison area, as well as throughout Wisconsin, upper Michigan, northern Illinois, and eastern Iowa since the company was started on April 1, 1966. We are a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).
SES is a consulting engineering firm specializing in geotechnical and environmental services; monitoring well and piezometer installations; geotechnical and environmental drilling and sampling; and materials testing of soils, aggregate, concrete, hot-mix asphalt, emulsified asphalt, masonry blocks, and bricks.
Our staff includes engineers, technicians, drillers and administrative support personnel. We have seven drilling rigs plus field and laboratory testing equipment. Our laboratory is AASHTO-accredited for testing concrete, aggregate, and hot-mix asphalt. We are a WisDOT-approved laboratory for testing soils, concrete, aggregate, and hot-mix asphalt.
Our project experience includes testing concrete and base course materials under the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Quality Management Program (QMP) for bridges, culverts, and roadways. We provide quality assurance testing for other engineering firms on airport construction projects for runways, taxiways, and aprons. This work includes testing concrete, asphalt, base course, and subgrade materials both on-site and in our laboratory.

In October 2008, SES took delivery of a new high torque CME 75 drilling rig. This drilling rig is mounted on a 2009 tandem-axle Freightliner truck. This drilling rig is ideal for drilling and sampling for bridges, roadway and airport pavements, and installation of monitoring wells. In 2009, we used it for drilling and coring concrete pavement and sampling soils at airports for runways and taxiways as well as drilling and sampling soils and bedrock for replacement bridges. This rig is set up for hollow-stem auger drilling, mud rotary drilling, air rotary drilling, split-barrel sampling with a 140-pound automatic hammer, and bedrock coring and drilling. We are very pleased to have this reliable workhorse in our fleet of drilling rigs.
On January 15, 2010, we took delivery of a new high torque CME 750X drilling rig. The rig specifications include 13,104 foot-pounds of torque, a working height of 27 feet 5 inches, a hydraulically actuated slide base on the drill frame for sideways and in-out movement, a 3L8 Moyno pump for mud rotary drilling or coring of bedrock, an emergency spindle brake, and an automatic 140-pound hammer. This rig was ordered with a quick-mast disconnect to reduce the overall mast height for working inside of buildings or under building overhangs.