Services Installation and Plant Facilities Failure

The laboratory frequently gets involved in investigating the root cause of building and infrastructural facilities failures either at installation or after a period of operation.

• Pipework and joint corrosion root-cause investigations.
• Specific failure of braze/solder process at joints.
• Manufacturing faults in fittings and valves.
• Seal and gasket failure.
• Solvent attack of plastic piping systems.
• Failure to use the correct water treatments such as corrosion inhibitors.
• Corrosion induced in copper and steel water piping systems associated with phenolic foam insulation.