Burgess Engineering, Moore, Oklahoma

Burgess Engineering and Testing, Inc. (BETI) offers a wide variety of standard and specialized services in geotechnical and construction material testing. Since 1995, BETI has provided quality testing to architects and engineers in private industry and federal, state, county and municipal agencies. The firm currently performs quality control testing of construction materials for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation and has been qualified as an outside source for geotechnical services on ODOT designs of transportation structures.

Alex Newell

Alex is serving as an intern for Burgess Engineering and Testing, Inc., in Moore, Oklahoma. His primary duties are compiling appendices for reports, calculating moisture content and Atterberg Limits, classifying soils based on their blow counts and visual descriptions, creating an aerial map of the project location with accurately marked and labeled boreholes, and putting together a table with the moisture contents for depth drilling. Alex also participated in the oversight of drilled piers and slump tests. Given this exciting opportunity, Alex has been able to combine his classroom knowledge with actual work experience.