V&A provides a wide range of corrosion, coatings, and condition assessment engineering services in the water, wastewater, and transit industries.

Corrosion Engineering Services

V&A’s Corrosion offerings include:

• Corrosion surveys
• Close interval surveys
• Material selection for various exposures

• Design of galvanic and impressed current cathodic protection systems
• Corrosion monitoring

Exposures that are commonly encountered include atmospheric, immersed and buried.

Coating Systems Management Services

V&A completed the evaluation, design, repair and inspection of the application of various coating and lining systems for a variety of facilities. V&A’s approach includes contact with the vendors of the coating systems and their certified applicators. From experience we have found that unless there is a distinct linkage between the vendor of the coating or lining system and the applicator, a clear line of responsibility is difficult to establish, and the project cannot proceed efficiently and cost-effectively.

Condition Assessment Services

V&A’s engineers perform condition assessments of coated or uncoated steel and concrete structures within municipal civil infrastructure facilities and/or collection systems, and they provide recommendations and design services for the rehabilitation or replacement of these structures.

Typical structures include:

• Gravity and pressure pipelines
• Manholes and junction structures
• Siphons
• Pump stations

• Storm drainage facilities
• Corrosion control systems
• Storage tanks
• Odor control facilities

V&A uses recent improvements in flow monitoring technology, allowing for greater accuracy and remote monitoring capabilities for real-time data collection for:

• Master planning efforts
• Meter calibration

• Sewer capacity studies with hydraulic modeling

Additional services include third-party inspection, hydrogen sulfide studies, and smoke testing of sanitary sewers and storm drains.