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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Building Testing Limited
(BTL) provides an independent, professional, cost-effective and expedient consultancy,
inspection and testing service to the building, construction and consumer product
industries.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Based at their offices and
laboratory in Woking, Surrey BTL offer a comprehensive range of facilities for
on site and laboratory based assignments for:-</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Building Industry
Professionals<br>
• Developers, Owners and Occupiers<br>
• Contractors and Subcontractors<br>
• Manufacturers<br>
• Certifiers<br>
• Users<br>
• Trading Standards</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Company Policy </b></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To carry out all assignments
in a professional, timely manner, to a high degree of accuracy and quality,
and in reflection of client requirements.<br>
To generate assignment reports that provide an independent, authoritative and
traceable record of evidence.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The Team </b></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A team of dedicated engineers,
technologists and technicians aim to provide an enhanced level of service through
responsive, qualified and strict attention to detail.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The company principals are<br>
<b>Paul Nice</b><br>
During an extensive and diverse career at home and abroad including 17 years
as manager of the Test Development & Building Investigation Department of
a leading organisation, he has developed a comprehensive knowledge concerned
with the design, manufacture, installation, performance and evaluation of building
and consumer products. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He is a recognised expert
in construction analysis and the preparation of investigative reports.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ian Collins</b><br>
With a sound base in laboratory practise and having formerly been a founding
director of an independent laboratory, he brings a wide-ranging experience in
all aspects of standard and customised testing procedures and the provision
of dedicated attention to the client needs.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He is exceptionally skilled
in laboratory procedures and site testing, and is responsible for BTL technician
training programmes, maintenance of the BTL quality systems and third-party
accreditation.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Accreditation</b> </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Quality Assured and Registered
Firm in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 : 2000 for the Provision of Testing,
Inspection and Consultancy Services.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Further third party accreditation
is pending<br>
Member of the British Standards Institute, Building Services Research and Information
Association, and Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Facilities </b></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The company operates from
offices and quality accredited laboratories at Woking, Surrey to service all
disciplines within the building, construction and consumer products industry.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dedicated laboratory test
facilities are provided for access floors, barriers, construction and consumer
products.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dedicated site testing equipment
is provided for evaluation of access floors, air tightness of plenums and compartments,
load bearing capacity, thermal properties, water tightness of facades.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Customised test equipment
and evaluation programmes are established as required. Staff are qualified and
trained in laboratory and testing practices.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A technical inspection and
consultancy service is provided.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Access floors<br>
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Technical consultancy; specification validation, laboratory testing; site testing,
defect analysis. Paul Nice was a consultant to the PSA.MOB during development
and implementation of the universally recognised PSA specification.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Air leakage</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Building compartments, raised
access plenum floors, doors & windows.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Automotive products</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Body parts, bumpers, lifts
& jacks.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Barriers</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pedestrian & vehicle
barriers; arenas, balconies, balustrades, car parks; parapets, stadiums.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Consumer products</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Specific, comparative and
benchmark testing, customised evaluation programmes, defect analysis. Conformance
with General Product Safety Regulations</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Environmental</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Energy conservation; air
tightness, compartment pressure testing, thermal imaging, sick building syndrome.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Expert witness</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Technical expert advice
relating to access floors, building services, facades, roofing </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Facades</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cladding, doors & windows,
stone and aluminium facades for air leakage, water penetration, thermal properties
and impact</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fixtures & fittings</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anchors, doors, gates, partitions,
plumbing, shelving, .</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Furniture</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Garden, household &
office furniture.<br>
Glazing</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Glass, stone and aluminium
facades for air leakage, water penetration and impact</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Health & safety</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Method statements, risk
assessments.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Load testing</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In situ loading tests on
anchors, balustrades, bridges, cladding, cradle rails, fixings, floors and lift
beams,</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Materials</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Rainwater goods, floor covering,
plumbing goods, paving, </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On site testing</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Condensation, damp penetration,
defect analysis, water penetration.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Quality checks</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Product appraisal, testing
to specification, screen testing & type testing</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Structural anchors</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Routine testing of anchors,
fixings, hooks</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Swimming pools</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Building & basin defects,
building services, floor coverings, pool furniture, pool surrounds, risk assessments,
suspended ceilings, tiling, ventilation, water penetration.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tools & equipment</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hand & power tools,
submersible pumps, extract fans</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Trading Standards</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Product testing, risk analysis,
defect analysis, failure investigation. Conformance with General Product Safety
Regulations</font></p>
<p></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Typified by the generation
of assignment reports in support of:-</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Correlation of UK,
EN, USA and industry-norm specifications<br>
• Technical evaluation<br>
• Tender analysis<br>
• Product evaluation & development<br>
• Quality management systems<br>
• Operation and maintenance manuals<br>
• Case investigations</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Examples of standard and customised testing and evaluation regimes include:-</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Access floors; air
tightness; load capacity <br>
• Balustrades, barriers & parapets<br>
• Condition surveys<br>
• Cladding & glazing<br>
• Energy conservation; environmental conditions, air & water tightness,
thermal imaging<br>
• Floors; floor coverings, paving<br>
• Loading; floors, roofs, walls, fixtures & fittings <br>
• Post-installation inspection<br>
• Walls & partitions</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Product evaluation entails
the application of physical and mechanical measurement techniques including:-
</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Dimensions, density,
thickness, weight<br>
• Temperature & humidity<br>
• Load capacity; static, dynamic, cyclic, rolling, safety factor, ultimate.<br>
• Pressure & flow</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A wide range of products
are evaluated. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Comparative, benchmark
and performance testing <br>
• Routine testing in accordance with National and International Standards,
industry norms, in-house specifications <br>
• Development of customised testing programmes<br>
• Evaluation of products for operability, productivity and durability<br>
• Evaluation of materials for specification compliance and fitness for
purpose<br>
• Production testing throughout the manufacturing, supply, installation
and service life cycle.<br>
• Complaints investigation comprising defect analysis in both the service
environment and under laboratory conditions as appropriate.</font></p>
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Six prestigious office buildings
in a water-park setting<br>
www.enjoy-work.com </font>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TASK:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Some fifty thousand square
metres of raised access floors installed throughout the office areas were to
function as air plenums.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the interests of energy
conservation and efficient utilisation of mechanical plant, the floor in all
areas was required to be pressure tested and measured for air tightness.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">REPORT:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Carried out during the fit-out
phase, our enhanced on-site testing service and purpose-made test equipment
enabled us to provide timely results to a high degree of accuracy.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By working closely with
the Specialist Subcontractor, the stringent air tightness specification was
achieved on all areas of the raised access floors and the associated physical
boundaries forming the voids beneath.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our succinct reports were
then available for incorporation into the respective building O & M Manual.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The total area of similar
recent tests we have carried out on a wide variety of projects in the UK now
exceeds one hundred and ten thousand square metres.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wrought iron gates damaged
by traffic</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TASK: </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With apparent malicious
intent, a driver crashed his car into one of the large, heavy and highly decorative
gates of a London Palace.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In preparation for re-hanging
of the gate, it was required that one of the substantial hinge brackets was
mechanically load tested in situ to assess the security of its embedment in
the supporting stone pier.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">REPORT:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This unique situation required
the design and fabrication of a custom-built test rig that would impose, in
turn, controlled lateral and axial loads to the bracket, which was some three
metres above ground level.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">During all phases of loading,
any movement of the bracket relative to the pier was measured to an accuracy
of one-hundredth of a millimetre.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The tests were completed
within one day and we understand the gate was re-hung and continues in service.</font></p>
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A full programme of tests on an access floor system</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TASK:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In validation of the manufacturer's
technical data sheets, laboratory tests were required according to MOB PF2 PS/SPU
</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This performance specification
for platform floors was developed under the auspices of the PSA in the 1980's
and remains the primary standard of measurement.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">REPORT:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our permanent test facility
allows examination of a complete floor system constructed to replicate the in
situ condition. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The specified test programme
provides for a comprehensive product assessment within four distinct performance
grades.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The considered parameters
include dimensional, structural, hygrothermal, fire & safety, sound, coverings,
and electrical.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our report provided an independent,
qualitative and authoritative appraisal of the floor system.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Routine testing of crowd-control barriers</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TASK:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the interests of public
health & safety, a certain proportion of the crowd control barriers are
required to be tested on a regular basis.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This entails in situ load
testing, measurements of deflection and recovery in accordance with the guide
for safety in sports grounds.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">REPORT:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Using our versatile mobile
test rigs a series of uniformly distributed loads were applied to the barriers
in the required locations.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The degree of imposed load
is governed by the respective type of barrier within and around the seating
or standing areas, and to the stairs or gangways serving them.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Similar in situ tests are
carried out in show grounds and arenas throughout the UK, And, at a higher degree
of loading, to vehicular barriers around buildings and car parks.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Laboratory tests are carried
out on a wide variety of prototype barrier designs.</font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
Submersible pumps - comparative performance testing.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TASK:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Various submersible pumps
are under consideration for inclusion in a distributor's catalogue.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In order to select the most
suitable product, a programme of comparative testing has to be devised to assess
relevant performance capabilities.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">REPORT:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The test regime considered:-</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Operability, instructions,
installation, ease of use<br>
• Productivity, flow, flow against pressure head<br>
• Durability, long term operation</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Other product assessment
has included:-</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">• Automotive products<br>
• Furniture<br>
• Garden Tools<br>
• Hand tools<br>
• Kitchen and bathroom fixtures & fittings<br>
• Ladders<br>
• Power tools<br>
• Re-constituted stone paving.</font></p>
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