Chartered engineers specialising in defective concrete
Buy, sell or repair your property with confidence
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How we can help
Our highly-experienced team provides a full range of defective concrete testing services from home-buyer surveys to IS465:2026 reporting and remediation plans. We understand how stressful the process of buying or selling a house can be, especially in the North West (Donegal, Derry and Strabane) given current concerns about the prevalence of iron sulfides, free muscovite mica and other deleterious material. More and more house transactions are failing to complete or not achieving the envisaged values because of concerns around defective blocks.
That's why we have leveraged our technical knowledge and extensive industry / academic experience to develop a network of accredited laboratories to allow end-to-end surveying, sampling, testing and reporting in significantly reduced timescales.
Our history
We became passionately involved in defective concrete block testing and analysis when our own family home was impacted, as well as the homes of our wider friends and family. There was lack of transparency in the testing process and testing was taking an extended period of time to complete impacting those involved in buying or selling. We knew that there had to be a better way to give buyers, sellers and repairers the information they needed to instill confidence. That's why we set up Mica Express.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide efficient and professional advice, testing and analysis services in relation to defective concrete blocks, whether it be for buying, selling or repairing. Our first-class technical service now means that our reports and advice are among the most trusted on the market.
Our Team
Dr Kaine Lynch MEng PhD CEng FICE MIEI FCIHT
Kaine leads all our testing and advice packages. He is a Chartered Engineer with a PhD in geotechnical engineering and 15 years of major construction and testing experience. He has published technical papers on topics such as geology, concrete rheology and civil engineering. He is registered as a Chartered Engineer with both Engineers Ireland and the Engineering Council in the UK.
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