Inspection Services

Inspection is an effective tool that can prevent structural failures before they occur and provide clients with quality assurance. Kova Engineering (Manitoba) is certified with the Canadian Welding Bureau for inspection of buildings, bridges, industrial structures, tank structures, machinery, cranes, rail, and road vehicles. We are a certified inspection company in accordance with CSA W178.1 standards. Our technologists and technicians are certified to CWB, AWS, and CGSB standards for inspection methods such as:

• Visual inspection
• Magnetic particle
• Ultrasonic testing
• Liquid penetrant testing

Inspection services include:
• Mobile cranes, drag lines, pipelayers, and gin poles
• Overhead, jib, gantry, tower, portal, and monorail cranes
• Fall arrest and lifeline anchor systems
• Lifting beams, spreader bars, and other under-the-hook lifting devices
• Personnel baskets for cranes and forklifts
• Self-propelled personnel lifts and swing stages
• Industrial mining equipment
• Construction equipment
• Structural steel
• New fabrications
• Drilling rigs, service rigs, flush-by rigs, and other oilfield equipment
• Roll over protection structures (ROPS)
• Falling object protection structures (FOPS)
• Thickener tanks, pump boxes, and storage tanks

Other testing services
• Stability tests on mobile cranes and aerial devices
• Proof load testing
• Strain gauge testing
• Acoustic emissions testing on fiber-reinforced plastic booms
• Corrosion surveys
• Hardness testing
• Material verification
• Accident investigations and failure analyses
• Review of mounting for cranes, digger derricks, and aerial devices