Applications of coatings, membranes, and seals help protect against air and water intrusion. To perform their role on your structure, they need to be installed correctly, maintained, and have proper surface adhesion.
BECS’s team of consultants understands the many factors affecting proper adhesion from materials to lifespan, and can use adhesion testing as part of diagnosing existing conditions or through a professional quality assurance plan.
When considering a roof replacement, wind uplift needs to be accounted for in the design. What better way to simulate that process and determine if the field installation meets the specified requirements? BECS can help ensure the adhesion of the roof was achieved through ASTM E907/FM 1-52 Field Verification of Roof Wind Uplift Resistance Testing. The test uses a chamber to create a negative pressure that simulates the uplift while monitoring the deflection of the roof membrane. Testing reduces potential callbacks and provides owners a peace of mind knowing that they got what they paid for.
BECS identified that to provide the best solutions to our clients, we need to ensure the expertise of performance testing should be at our client’s fingertips, so we developed BECS Labs. BECS Labs provides field and laboratory testing capabilities to fully support our building envelope consultants. BECS Labs brings the experience and foremost experts in the industry to the science of the building envelope and its performance. BECS Labs can test the performance of the building and bring to the project actionable data. BECS Labs will test how your current building performs, test products to ensure they have the capacity to keep the inside in and the outside out.