Managed by Jay Dorst, the Product Evaluations Laboratory provides product testing and evaluative services for multiple construction product industry clients. Products include mechanical anchors, adhesives, screws, hold downs, cast inserts, shear walls, panels, and new building products. CEL also sells and evaluates TempScrews, a temperature sensitive set screw that allows for peak temperature measurements in moving parts.
Services
- Load Testing of Equipment & Construction Products (specializing in concrete anchors & other types of fasteners)
- Electronic Data Acquisition of Load, Displacement & Temperature
- Cyclic (earthquake) Testing
- Temperature Cycle Testing
- Temperature Creep Testing
- Moving Crack Testing
Notable Clients
- Hilti
- Simpson Strong-Tie
- Powers Fasteners
- USP Structural Connectors
- Adhesives Technology
- Bechtel
- Mason West
- ITW BuildEx
- Brighton Best
- Drillco
- Sun Power
- International Seismic Applications Technology
- MiTek
- ITW Redhead