Air, Water, Structural Field Testing

Field Testing Fast Facts

Field test teams can be dispatched from any Architectural Testing location on both coasts or the Midwest. All technicians are fully trained and equipped with the best equipment available. Fully equipped test vans include our portable Lab Pack with centrifugal blower, vacuum pump, rotameters (airflow rate measurement), and pressure measurement gauges. Data is compiled on laptop computers with wireless communication to our corporate headquarters for quick report turnaround.

Value

For ultimate quality assurance, site-installed fenestration and curtain-wall products must be field tested for air infiltration, water leakage, and structural performance in accordance with architect and industry specifications. Our thorough understanding of key performance variables ensures architects, building owners, consultants, glazing installers, and contractors that they are meeting contract obligations during new construction or renovation and yields valuable insights to help resolve problems.

Architectural Testing routinely performs field tests of:

As well as specialty tests for:

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Innovations

Architectural Testing is unique in our ability to deploy technicians from ten strategic locations around the country. That makes it easy and cost effective for us to reach any job site within 24 hours. To devise the best chamber test arrangement, our work begins before we arrive at your job site. We carefully communicate with you to evaluate architectural details, shop drawings, and preliminary photographs to ensure that the appropriate test procedures are applied. We take care of test equipment, equipment calibration, staging, access equipment, and scaffolding (if required) to ensure that work proceeds smoothly.

If required for specific projects, Architectural Testing will modify standard procedures to test in accordance with customer specifications. Architectural Testing also has a Forensic Services department to perform investigative testing for identification of air or water leakage paths on existing building envelopes.

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Insights and Possibilities

Air and water tests are typically performed on building components and facades, such as window assemblies, metal panel systems, storefronts, curtain walls, EIFS walls, stone facades, roofs, and skylights. Often, these constructions are also tested for structural integrity to confirm that the as-built specimen complies with the design wind-pressure requirements. Testing may be performed at various stages of construction, however it is desirable to test prior to the installation of finished interior wall materials.

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