Building Materials Testing
Material Testing Service
We offer extensive building materials testing services to support our structural surveying teams.
Our on-site test teams supported and supervised by building surveyors comprise trained technicians, all holding appropriate CSCS qualification and trained to work in Network Rail (PTS), London Underground (ICI-LUL), confined space, and street works (NRSW) environments.
Our clients vary from residential, commercial, retail and industrial both private and public sectors and include local authority, government bodies, historic palaces and private companies.
Materials We Test
Concrete
- Chloride ion content
- Sulphate content
- Cover & carbonation testing
- Compressive strength testing
- Hydrostatic Diamond drilling
- High Alumina Cement (H.A.C)
- Petrographic Analysis
- Pull-off testing
- Bond/adhesion strength testing
- Cement content analysis
- Half-cell potential analysis
- Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Testing
- Surveys to Reinforcement with Ferroscan and structural GPR equipment
- Tap hammer surveys
Metals
- Electromagnetic particle analysis testing
- Hardness testing
- Chemical Analysis
- Ultimate Tensile strength
- Weldability
- Metal fatigue testing
- Elemental analysis via XRF
Masonry
- Mix detail Analysis
- Compressive strength
- Sulphate content
- Chloride ion content
- Petrographics
Timber
- Moisture testing
- Dendritic/resistance drilling
- Defect analysis
- Repair and Remediation
Paints
- Paint thickness determination
- Toxic Paint Analysis for Lead/Cadmium
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Our team of building surveyors and technicians are proficient in all of the above including the latest modern iterations of the equipment all within the applicable british standards of testing. Please contact us for more information.
Non destructive Testing
We offer a range of NDT services to support our investigative processes. Our clients vary from residential, commercial, retail and industrial both private and public sectors and include local authority, government bodies, historic palaces and private companies.
A generic list of NDT services we provide include:
Screed testing utilising BRE screed test apparatus
Borescope inspections
Metal Thickness measurement
Electromagnetic particle analysis testing
Ground Penetrating Radar (structural)
Half-cell potential analysis
Concrete Resistivity measurement
Moisture Measurement
Metal Hardness
Thermal Imaging
Concrete compressive strength estimation
Reinforcement Scanning
Ultrasonic pulse velocity testing (PUNDIT)
Concrete defect analysis (Pulse Echo)
Concrete thickness measurement
Wall tie detection
