Who's Accredited?

Testing Laboratories > Construction

• Adhesives & sealants
  • Adhesion & cohesion
  • Adjustability
  • Degradation
  • Heat resistance
  • Impact test
  • Open time
  • Resistance to mould growth
  • Shear adhesion strength
  • Shear strength
  • Tensile adhesion strength
• Aggregates
  • Aggregate abrasion value
  • Aggregate crushing value
  • Aggregate impact value
  • Aggregates for biological filters
  • Apparent specific gravity
  • Blast furnace slag
  • Bulk density, voids & bulking
  • Chemical testing
  • Crushed & broken surfaces in coarse aggregate
  • Drying shrinkage
  • Elongation Index
  • Falling or dicalcium silicate unsoundness
  • Flakiness
  • Frost heave
  • Horizontal permeability
  • Los Angeles abrasion
  • Loss on ignition
  • Magnesium sulphate test
  • Methylene blue/ sand equivalent test
  • Micro-Deval coefficient & aggregate attrition
  • Moisture condition value
  • Moisture content/ Water content
  • Particle density, water absorption
  • Particle shape, index & angularity
  • Particle size distribution
  • Petrography
  • Polished stone value
  • Potential alkali-silica reactivity
  • Recycled
  • Sampling
  • Shell content
  • Soundness
  • Ten per cent fines
  • Uniformity coefficient
• Asphalt, bitumen, tar, pitch & bituminous materials
  • Air voids
  • Bending beam rheometer
  • Binder content & grading
  • Bulk specific gravity & density
  • Coating & stripping of bitumen-aggregate
  • Density
  • Design wearing course asphalt
  • Distillation
  • Flashpoint
  • Hardening
  • Hot sand test
  • In-situ density
  • Modified binder storage stability
  • Penetration
  • Percentage refusal density
  • Rate of spread of binder
  • Rate of spread of coated chippings
  • Recovery of bituminous binders
  • Relative hydraulic conductivity
  • Resistance to deformation
  • Road emulsions
  • Rolling thin film oven test
  • Sampling
  • Softening point
  • Solubility
  • Specific gravity & density
  • Temperature
  • Transverse distribution of binder
  • Viscosity
  • Water content
  • Waterproof membranes – spray applied
  • Wheel-tracking rate/ wear
• Boards, plasterboards & sheet materials
  • Adhesion
  • Chemical analysis
  • Dimensions
  • Properties
  • Weight
• Bricks, blocks, insulating products, lintels, slates & tiles
  • Calcium silicate (sandlime & flintlime) bricks
  • Clay bricks
  • Dimensions
  • Load tests on lintels
  • Modulus of rupture
  • Roofing
  • Thermal insulation, conductivity
  • Transverse strength
  • Water absorption
  • Weather resistance
• Building hardware
  • Cladding
  • Conduit systems for electrical installations
  • Doors & door furniture
  • Exit devices
  • Flexible sheet material
  • Flooring
  • Flue pipes
  • Glazing
  • Hinges
  • Industrial and commercial doors and gates
  • Interior fixtures
  • Padlocks
  • Radiators & heaters
  • Shutters & curtain walling
  • Structural fixtures
  • Windows
• Buildings
  • Building Air Leakage Test
• Cement
  • Blast furnace slag
  • Cement paste
  • Chemical analysis
  • Components
  • Compressive strength
  • Conditioning of test specimens
  • Density
  • Fineness
  • Flexural strength
  • Loss on ignition
  • Methylene blue test
  • Preparation of mortar
  • Preparation of test specimens
  • Pulverised fuel ash
  • Reference cement
  • Sampling
  • Setting times
  • Soundness
• Ceramic
  • Products & materials
  • Vitreous enamel ware
  • Whiteware clays
• Concrete & mortar – fresh
  • Air content
  • Compacting factor
  • Consistence
  • Curing & curing compounds
  • Density
  • Fibre content
  • Flow
  • Rate of bleeding
  • Relative density of liquid admixtures
  • Sampling
  • Slump
  • Temperature
  • Test beams – making
  • Test cubes – making
  • Test cylinders – making
  • Time of setting
  • Water for making concrete
• Concrete structures & reinforcement
  • Bend & rebend tests
  • Bond pull-out
  • Carbonation depth
  • Fatigue test
  • Geometrical characteristics
  • Half-cell potential of steel reinforcement
  • Location of reinforcement
  • Macro-etch tests
  • Rebar continuity
  • Resistivity for concrete structures
  • Sonic coring test
  • Tendon grout material sampling
  • Tensile strength, yield stress & elongation
  • Weld test
• Concrete, grout & mortar – hardened
  • Abrasion resistance
  • Absorption, initial surface, water
  • Aggregate grading
  • Air – void content
  • Capillary porosity
  • Chemical analysis
  • Chemical resistance
  • Compressive strength
  • Cores, measurement & examination
  • Curing
  • Dampness testing
  • Density
  • Dry material content
  • Drying shrinkage
  • Elasticity
  • Flexural strength
  • Freeze-thaw cycling
  • Gas permeability & diffusion coefficients
  • Length change of prisms
  • Petrography
  • Sampling
  • Screeds
  • Strain
  • Surface hardness
  • Tensile splitting strength
  • Thermal tests
  • Water permeability
  • Water/ cement ratio
• Construction materials & geological samples
  • Chemical testing
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Thermal stability tests
  • Thermal tests
• Doors, Windows, Shutters & Glazing Products
  • Thermal transmittance, U values (determined by test and/or calculation)
• Fire resistance & protection, reaction to fire
  • Building components & materials
  • Ducts, ventilators & sealants
  • Extinguishers, hydrants and extinguishing systems
  • Fire detection & alarm systems
  • Floors and suspended ceilings
  • Fuel tanks, drums & pressure vessels
  • Marine constructions
  • Motor vehicle, railway stock & aircraft materials
  • Roof structures
  • Valves, hoses & associated pipework
• Floors
  • Coefficient of friction
  • Resistance
  • Slip resistance value
  • Surface roughness
• Foundations & piling
  • Dynamic pile tests
  • Pile integrity tests
• Geotextiles, flexible sheet materials & liners
  • Material properties
• Masonry, slate & stone
  • Building stone
  • Cast stone
  • Masonry & masonry materials
• Pavers
  • Clay & calcium silicate
  • Concrete
• Pipes
  • Concrete & clay pipes, fittings & ducts
  • Metal pipes, fittings & ducts
  • Plastic pipes, fittings & ducts
• Plumbing
  • Bathroom fittings
  • Items in contact with water distribution network
  • Valves & fittings
  • Water meters (not calibration)
• Road markings
  • Binder content
  • Glass bead content
  • Grading
  • Heat stability
  • Luminance factor
  • Retro-reflectivity
  • Sampling
  • Skid resistance & skid tester
  • Surface applied glass beads
• Road pavement surfaces
  • Cores
  • Falling weight deflectometer
  • Rolling straight edge
  • Salt
  • Skid resistance & skid tester
  • Surface irregularities
  • Surface profiles
  • Texture depth
• Road signs & lighting columns
  • Reflectivity
  • Relative loss of section
• Rock & natural stone
  • Abrasion
  • Chemical analysis
  • Compressive strength
  • Deformability
  • Density
  • Description & classification
  • Dimensions
  • Durability
  • Flexural strength
  • Frost resistance
  • Indirect tensile strength
  • Optical microscopy
  • Petrography
  • Point load strength
  • Polished paver value
  • Porosity
  • Preparation of specimens
  • Rebound hardness
  • Resistance to salt crystallisation
  • Saturation
  • Slake durability
  • Sound/ pulse velocity & ultrasonics constants
  • Water/ moisture content
• Smoke emission & toxicity
  • Cables, plastics, glazing & rubber materials
  • Marine constructions
  • Motor vehicle, railway stock & aircraft materials
• Soils & stabilised soils
  • California bearing ratio
  • Chalk crushing value
  • Chemical analysis
  • Compaction
  • Compressive strength
  • Cone penetration tests
  • Consolidation
  • Degree of pulverisation
  • Density tests
  • Description
  • Dispersibility
  • Dry density/moisture content relationship
  • Effective angle of internal friction
  • Effective shear strength tests
  • In-situ wet density
  • Initial consumption of lime
  • Liquid & plastic limits
  • Making & curing test cubes
  • Moisture condition value
  • Moisture content
  • Particle density
  • Particle size distribution
  • Penetration resistance
  • Permeability
  • Plate bearing test
  • Redox potential
  • Resistivity
  • Ring shear
  • Sampling
  • Saturation moisture content of chalk
  • Shear strength
  • Shrinkage
  • Soil suction
  • Tensile strength
  • Topsoil
  • Unconfined compressive strength
• Sports & playground surfaces
  • Ball roll
  • Critical height & dimensions
  • Fire
  • Force reduction
  • Friction
  • Infiltration rate
  • Modified vertical deformation
  • Peak deceleration
  • Rebound resilience
  • Slip resistance & traction
• Wood
  • Timber structures