CSIRO’s testing and consulting services provide a wide range of expert services to building and construction companies.
CSIRO’s Industrial Research Services (IRS) group provides an extensive range of independent services.
These include:
- Testing
- Assessment
- Research
- consulting.
IRS aims to:
- support the development of better building products and systems
- improve the competitiveness of Australia’s manufacturing, building and construction industries.
What we do
IRS offers:
- contract research services: in materials and manufacturing science
- testing: to demonstrate compliance with Australian and International Standards, determine performance levels or support a performance-based building application
- assessments: these represent valuable opinions from an internationally recognised body on the ability of a product or system to meet a specific requirement
- consulting: to provide solutions in the design, development and establishment of performance requirements for building products and systems.
Our standards
IRS clients receive a service that is:
Customers can have a high level of confidence in the results CSIRO Industrial Research Services provides in its reports.
- Independent
- Authoritative
- Confidential
- internationally recognised
- accurate
- professionally managed
- completed in a timely manner.
Our services
IRS offers the following services:
- Fire testing: of building elements and materials to Standards such as:
- Australian (AS)
- British (BS)
- American (ASTM, UL)
- international (ISO, IMO)
- Fire safety engineering: performance-based design for:
- fire safety
- fire modelling
- hot smoke tests
- Fire systems testing: a National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) approved laboratory carries out research and testing in the areas of:
- sprinklers
- suppression systems
- fire protection equipment
- smoke detectors
- fire indicator panels
- ActivFire™: a CSIRO-run scheme for the certification and listing of active fire protection equipment.
- Hydraulics: NATA approved testing of metal and plastic plumbing components or systems to Australian and overseas standards
- Geomechanics: NATA approved testing services including:
- permeability testing of soils
- Atterberg limits
- compaction
- dispersion
- electrical resistivity
- landscape soils
- permeability
- rock cores
- strengt
- Standard acoustic measurements: these include testing:
- airborne sound insulation of walls, floors, doors or windows
- impact sound insulation and reduction of floors and walls
- impact sound reduction of floor coverings
- sound absorption of materials and objects
- airflow resistance of acoustic materials
- loss factor of vibration damping materials
- Materials testing: a NATA approved evaluation service for physical properties of materials such as:
- paints
- metals
- plastics
- organic surfaces such as wood
Tests include:
- accelerated and natural durability
- Metals, ceramics and polymer testing: thermo-mechanical and service performance evaluation of:
- metals
- ceramics
- refractories
- polymer
- Waterproof membrane testing: performance and general testing to Australian Standards
- Tiling services: evaluation and testing for:
- performance appraisal
- product development
- diagnosis of system failures
- Slip resistance: a range of services including:
- collaborative and strategic research
- consultancy
- testing to international Standards
- Facade engineering: services include:
- design and prototype testing
- aging facade assessment and remediation.
- weather performance
- structural performance
SIROWET, CSIRO’s wall evaluation test (a performance testing technique verifying strength and serviceability).
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