Building testing Limited
Building Product Testing
- On site and Laboratory testing of building products, systems and components
- Evaluation of materials for specification compliance and fitness for purpose
- Inspections, surveys and condition assessments including provision of abseiling teams where access is difficult
- In situ load tests on anchors and fixings, anchorages for highway safety barriers, cladding, cradle rails, fixings, hooks, floors and lift beams
- Product comparison, benchmark and performance testing
- Technical consultancy
- Defect analysis, failure investigation and building forensics
- Product appraisal, testing to specification, screen and type testing
- Development of customised testing programmes
- Durability, operability and safety assessments
- Non destructive testing, testing to destruction, resistance to moisture, reduced and elevated temperatures, cyclic pedestrian dynamic loading, rolling load
- Examples of the variety of products tested:
- Aluminium lattice beams
- Fire dampers
- Facades
- Concrete slabs and Pavers
- Anchors and fixings
- High level display unit in shopping centre
- Ground recessed lights
- Deformed rebar
- Wheels for odour control tanks in sewage works
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Structures Testing information sheet
Laboratory testing of building
components under controlled environment
Inspection of cable stay roof supports
Building Testing Ltd carried out inspection and testing of the cable stay system supporting the roof over a grandstand in Sussex. This project included a condition inspection of the cable sleeves, pylon and damper plates, anchorage caps and beam ends. In addition, tests were carried out to check the loads in the cable stays. (The roof stay system is shown at the top of this page).
