Testing of construction materials: cement, aggregates and components

We offer the following services and tests:

• Verification of compliance with EN, ISO, UNE, NF, BS, ASTM Standards.
• Voluntary and compulsory certification: CE Marking, European Technical Assessments (ETA), Ecolabel, etc.
• Guidance on the standardisation of raw materials and products.
• Development of testing protocols to assess the physical-mechanical performance of non-standardised products.
• Determination of new parameters (e.g. durability of fly ash), environmental aspects (e.g. Kyoto Protocol), health and safety aspects (e.g. determination of the Cr VI).
• Technical guidance for the recovery of demolition or industrial waste.

TESTS AND STANDARDS

• Physical – Mechanical Tests: Tensile strength, compression, bending, shearing, impact, humidity, specific weight, specific surface, granulometry, etc.
• Chemical Tests: Identification of components, silica, chlorides, soluble alkalis, CO₂, organic and inorganic carbon, sulphates, etc.
• Durability, temperature, humidity, frost-thaw tests, etc.

Identification and composition tests:

• Techniques: FTIR, DSC, TGA, X-Ray Diffraction., HPLC-GC, CG-MS, GC-FID.
• Analysis of VOCs as per ISO 16000, UNE-EN ISO 11890-2.
• Heavy Metal Analysis: ICP

• Manufacturers of cement, aggregates, clinker grinding, dispatch points, warehouses, quarries and gravel pits, producers of alternative aggregates, civil works, agglomerate manufacturers and construction companies in general.