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Environmental protection through the use of technology
Socially responsible: we promote the well-being of territory where we work
R&D investing because innovation build our future
Constant business growth
Modular polyvalent and adaptable solutions for any needs
Certified quality
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DIMMS Control history started in 1992 as a specialized supplier company of geotechnical monitoring and testing services.First company’s years were marked by striving for continuous improvement, spreading ever more the range of surveying and testing services offered, to serve the construction and infrastructural industries.Excellence in the proposed services along with the high productivity ensured, contributed to the rapid growth of the company, also attested by DIMMS commitments in the main national and abroad work projects.Market demand and corporate strategies progressively lead to the implementation of new operational business units , as well as to the establishment of national and international branch offices to ensure the follow up of several work’s projects.Overtime company’s growth also results in strategic corporate acquisition of ELLETIPI srl and GEOMARINE srl firms leading companies
About us
in their work’s fields, leading to the establishment of DIMMS GROUP capable of offering exploratory and testing surveys both to onshore as well as offshore environments. To date DIMMS Group is made up of leading companies internationally recognized as:
DIMMS Control S.p.A.Company specialized in geophysical, geological and geotechnical investigation surveys applied to monitoring and checking of major infrastructural projects; DIMMS Control S.p.A. also owns testing laboratory facilities for geotechnical testing (Soil & Rock Mechanics) and construction materials testing (Concrete, Steel, Cements, etc). Company operates through Italian national offices (in Avellino and Turin) and through two foreign branche.
Elletipi S.r.l.Company specialized in geotechnical and material laboratory testing (Soils and Rocks Mechanics, Construction materials, Woods, Paints, Bitumens, Metallurgy, etc), in situ testing activities, structural and monitoring checking activities. offices located in Romania and Mozambique.
Geomarine S.r.l.Company operative in the marine field capable to provide geophysical, geotechnical, environmental and positioning surveys to support the industrial installations, related to the nearshore and offshore activities especially of the Oil &Gas industry.
DIMMS Geophysical Mozambique LdaMozambican company specialized in geological, geophysical and geotechnical exploration and testing surveys supplies for the local market and multinational companies operating in the Oil & Gas industry in the African continent.
FILIALA BUCURESTI SRL MOZAMBIQUE BRANCH
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Major ProjectsLocations
ItalySwitzerlandFranceAlbaniaCroatiaMontenegro
AlgeriaEgyptMozambique TanzaniaZimbabweSouth Africa
IraqEnglandSaudi Arabia OmanRomaniaBahrain
QatarMyanmarVenezuelaRussiaUnited Arab EmiraterNorthern Ireland
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Quality System Certifications
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Quality Management SystemUNI EN ISO 9001:2008
Enviromental Management SystemUNI EN ISO 14001:2004
Safety Management SystemOHSAS 18001:2007
Company commitments in providing excellence in services provided, environmental awareness, health and safety of the workers, is granted by the adoption, within each company belonging to DIMMS Group, of procedures and actions in line with the expectations of stakeholders.DIMMS Group has adopted its own organizational and governance model according the Legislative Decree n.231 of 2001, with the aim of establishing a comprehensive set of guiding principles to ensure the respect of fairness and transparency requirements and to prevent offenses commission according to the Decree.Attention to quality services and customer focus, environmental protection as well as health & safety compliance are then regulated by the adopted Integrated Policy Quality Management System:
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Main CustomersCurrent and potential customers of DIMMS Group are represented by the biggest Construction and Engineering companies, private and governative, as well as the major international energy companies.
DIMMS Group companies are officially registered as reliable suppliers for the main Oil & Gas and Engineering companies.
DIMMS Group companies owns all the ministerial licenses issued by Italian Ministry of Infrastructure according the art.59 of the Presidential Decree n.380 of 2001 namely:• soil and rock mechanics laboratory - art. 59, D.P.R.380/01;• coring and drilling - art. 59, D.P.R. 380/01;• concrete and steel laboratory - art. 20, L. 1086/71;•geognosticsurvey-OS20-Bart.61c.3D.P.R.207/2010-AttachmentA;•topographicsurvey-OS20-Aart.61c.3D.P.R.207/2010-AttachmentA.Elletipi S.r.l. is a “Notified Body pursuant to the Construction Products Regulation” in accordance with the Directive 89/106/CEE, authorized to issue a certification of conformity of construction products.
Permits & Accreditations
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Drilling and SoilInvestigation Survey
Geophysical Survey
LaboratoryTesting Survey
Laying Support forPipelines and Cable
MarineGeophysics
Underwater VisualInspection
GeotechnicalMarine Survey
Metallurgy
Surface and UnderwaterPositioning and Metrology Services
Geomechanical Surveys
Topographic Surveyand Laser Scanner
Non DestructiveTesting
Monitoring
Geotechnical Laboratory Testing
Construction Materials Testing
CE Conformity Marking
Business Unit and ServicesOnshore - Nearshore - Offshore
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Business Unit and Services | OnshoreDrilling and Soil Investigation Surveys
Onshore drilling surveyContinuoscoring,Rotarydrilling
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Trial pits
Marine drilling survey
ExplorationBoreholes
Resources Research & Exploitation
GeotechnicalBoreholes
GeotechnicalParameterization
EnviromentalBoreholes
ContaminationEvaluation
Installation and readings of the inclinometer data
Horizontal drilling survey
Penetration tests CPT, CPTU, SCPT, DPSH
Environmetal drilling survey
Inclinometric pressumeter survey
Inaccessible locations positioning
Instrumentation for borehole geophysicsDown hole, Cross hole
DIMMS Groupcansupportanycustomerorwork’sprojectneedingtheinvestigationofsubsoilconditions.Thephysi-co-mechanicalcharacterizationofthesubsoilvolumesinvolvedbythework’sprojectisusefultofitwiththeplanningrequirements.Dependingonthepurposesofthesurveyandfieldconditionsvariousaretheinvestigationtechniquesemployablesuchas:
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Concrete piles coring Environmetal sampling Pumping tests Piezometric survey Piezometric reading campaign
BusinessUnitandServices| OnshoreDrilling and Soil Investigation Surveys - Output
Geological mapping by geological reconnaissance survey 2D-3D ground model reconstruction
Geological sections
Stratigraphic log
CPT, CPTU, SCPT, DPSH Report
Inclinometer Report
Impermeability Report
Pressumeter Report
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BusinessUnitandServices| OnshoreGeophysical Survey
Seismic refraction (SR)survey
Borehole geophysicsDown hole, Cross hole
Tunnel structural monitoring with ground penetration radar (GPR)
2D geoelectrical survey
MASW-ReMI
Boreholes logging
Electromagnetometer survey
Seismic structural survey
Gravimetric survey
Ground penetration radar (GPR)
3D electrical resistivity tomography (ERT)
Magnetometric survey
Tunnels seismic refraction survey
Seismic refraction survey(SRT)
Magnetotelluric survey(MT)
Awiderangeofindirectandnoninvasivegeophysicalmethodologiescanbeusedtoreconstructthesubsurfacemodelorforsearchburiedstructures.Severalarethetechniquesemployableeachofwhichmeasurethevariationofspecificphysicalparameters(suchasdensity,elasticity,magneticsusceptibility,electricalconductivity,etc)andanalyzingtheirmo-dificationinthespace.Amongthesecanbesummarizedthemainfollowingcategories:
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BusinessUnitandServices| OnshoreGeophysical Survey - Output
MASW
Seismic refraction tomography
GPR
Geoelettric 2D and 3D
Boreholes logging
DOWN-HOLE
MagnetotelluricMagnetometry
3D seismic refration
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BusinessUnitandServices| OnshoreGeophysical and Geotechnical Correlations - Output
2D seismo-stratigraphic and geotechnical correlation
3D geological ground model
Fence diagram modelling
3D block diagramm
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Business Unit and Services | LaboratorySoil, Rock, Steel and Concrete Labs
PHYSICALCHARACTERISTICS
ATTERBERGLIMITS
DIRECT SHEAR
TRACTION
RESONANT COLUMN
BENDING TEST PRESS FOR COMPRESSION
RESILIENCE
TRIAXIAL
PRESS BEDDINGPUNCHING
PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS
OEDOMETER
LOS ANGELES
MICRODEVAL
DIMMSGrouplaboratoriesofferawiderangeoftestsboth:- On Soil starting fromphysico-volumetricparameters,passing through thosemechanical andtilldynamicparameters(fromResonantColumnandTorsionalShearTest)- On Rockdeterminingstartingfromrocksphysicalparameterstilltheirmechanicalproperties(egcompressivestrength,tensiledeformation,triaxialonrocks)
- On Concretecompressivestrengthtestsandphysico-chemicalparameters;- On Steeltestsofmechanicalstrength,ductility,brittleness,physical-chemicalresistanceanddurability.
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Business Unit and Services | OffshoreBathymetric, Morphologycal, Magnetometric and Seismic Survey
Bathymetric surveysMULTI BEAM Marine geophysics
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Morphological surveysSIDE SCAN SONAR Magnetometric survey
Archaeological surveys
Geophysics offshore
Morphology offshoreBathymetric charts 2D and 3D
Magnetometry offshore
Evidence of archaeological
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BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreBathymetric - Multi Beam
BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreUnderwater Visual Inspection
BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreGeotechnical Marine Survey
Bathymetric surveysMULTI BEAM
Geophysical survey
Vibro core samples
MULTI BEAM
Underwater visual inspections
Gravity coring
Bathymetric charts 2D
Support of core drilling
Sampling with BOX coring
Bathymetric charts 3D
Identification and inspection of cables and pipelines
Coring rotation Marine samplingBENNA VAN VEEN
Throughtheuseofwire-guidedvehiclesROV,willmakevisualinspectionsofplatformsand/orcarriedoutmaintenancework as well as research target.
Continuousscan(MultiBeam)allowsanaccurateassessmentofthecharacteristicsoftheseabed.Theacquireddataareprocessedinathree-dimensionalmodel(DigitalTerrainModel)andgeo-referencedhigh-precisionandreturnrepresentationsofdatausingcontourlines,quotedplans,sectionsandvolumecalculations.
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BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreSurface and Underwater Positioning and Metrology Services
Vessel positioning
Vessel/Barge spread and tug management
Underwater acoustic positioning (USBL)
Virtualization positioning
Underwater metrology(LBL)
Pipeline lay support and touchdown monitoring
Cartography in support for installing subsea pipelines
Installation support
ROV & divers positioning
Monitoring in the post-placement
Anchor pattern and headling
BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreLaying Support for Pipelines and CablesGeomarine provides solutions to givepositioning serviceswith new technologieswith highlyqualified personnel. To perform location services are used a wide range of communicationprogramsthatincludethefollowingactivities:
Operations offshore:Geophysicalsurvey-VesselandROVmounted;Vibro-Coring&Gravity-Coring;Vesselandbargespositioning;Anchorhandlingandtugmanagement;Touchdownmonitoring;Pipe&Cablelayingpositioningandmonitoring;SupportduringtheTrancingoperation;Tripodsandcliffsinstallationsupportandmonitoring;Positioningandmonitoringduringdredgingactivities;Platformsandsubseainstallations;UnderwateracousticPositioningUSBL&LBL.
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BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreRov and Divers Inspection
BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreAutonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
BusinessUnitandServices|OffshoreLaser Scanner
ROV & divers positioning
AUV bottom mapping
Divers inspection
AUV
Vessel positioning
AUV
ROV
Bottom mapping
Thelaserscannersurveyisaninnovativeme-asurementsystemthatallowstodetectandreturnwithextremeprecisionsurfacesandobjectsofanycomplexityandsizetogetherwithanabsolutelyexactdigitalreproductionand corresponding to reality.
Anautonomousunderwatervehicle(AUV)isarobotwhichtravelsunderwaterwithoutrequiringinputfromanoperator.AUVscarrysensorstonavigateautonomouslyandmapfeaturesoftheocean.Typicalsensorsincludecompasses,depthsensors,sidescanandothersonars,magnetometers,thermistorsandconductivityprobes.
Geomarine’stechnicalstaffusesgeophysicsandtheireyestostudyandanalyzeseabedcharacteristics;seeingstructures,faunaandlytologicalchangesthroughdirectimagesmakeseverythingclearerandprovideasureresult.
Thesimultaneoususeofthetwoinstruments,installedonasamesupportonboardofavessel,generatesamodelconsi-stingofasetofmillionsof3Dpointsdescribingfaithfullytheworkinitsentirety.