Whether your brief is to prove compliance with regulations, or other Client driven specifications, or to simply benchmark performance, the only true measure of building quality is derived through testing.

Air Pressure Testing Services

Part L Compliance

Minneapolis Blower Door

In addition to our Air Leakage Consultancy Services, Building Sciences personnel have extensive test experience in a wide range of construction and building types. We have particular expertise in the field of air pressurisation testing – as required by Part L of the Building Regulations (England & Wales, 2006) – with over 3,000 tests undertaken ranging in scale from 1m2 floor area (specialist enclosures) through to 60,000m2 hospital, office and superstore developments.

All testing is undertaken in strict accordance with relevant national and/or international standards and our test equipment is kept fully calibrated where appropriate. Our equipment ranges from sensitive low flow units to large scale trailer-mounted fans.

Trailer fan setup

Our range of equipment allows us to provide maximum flexibility in terms of the type and size of buildings to be tested along with availability for preferred test dates. Testing is available nationally and our air testing procedures are UKAS accredited (to BS EN 13829:2001) giving the utmost confidence in the quality and consistency of our results.