Whether you’re validating products, troubleshooting failures, demonstrating compliance or supporting research, we offer equipment and expertise to help you achieve your desired outcomes.
Supporting your goals
Manufacturers and suppliers
Verify material and product performance, compare options and generate evidence for product information and market acceptance.
Designers and engineers
Get robust test data to support design decisions, assess fitness for purpose and reduce uncertainty around performance and durability.
Regulators and agencies
Use independent testing to support compliance decisions, investigate issues and help ensure products meet expected safety and performance requirements.
Researchers
Extend your own lab capability and collaborate with us to investigate material behaviour, degradation and system performance.
A smarter materials testing lab
- Independent testing backed by BRANZ expertise in building science and product performance.
- Ability to tailor test programmes to your product, use case and applicable standards.
- Instrumentation and analysis support to help you interpret results and apply them to design, compliance or product development.
- Option to integrate materials testing with other testing (e.g. structural or fire) when your project spans multiple performance requirements.
Types of materials testing on offer
Mechanical testing
Mechanical testing examines material strength, stiffness and potential points of failure to ensure products meet performance requirements.
Moisture and water interaction
Moisture and water interaction testing includes evaluating absorption, permeability and wetting/drying effects, where relevant to your application.
Durability and weathering
Durability and weathering assessments help you understand how materials perform over time when exposed to environmental conditions.
Comparative testing
Comparative testing assists in material selection, validating design changes or benchmarking performance against industry standards.
Investigative testing
Investigative testing is used for root-cause analysis to diagnose and resolve issues occurring during manufacturing or on-site installation.
International accreditation and compliance
Our materials testing is delivered under robust quality processes and, where applicable, to recognised standards and methods. This gives you confidence that results are repeatable, well documented and suitable for compliance, technical decision making and research.