Lab to test quality of construction materials

Hubballi: All materials used for the various projects will now be tested for quality at the Quality Testing Centre established by Hubballi-Dharwad Smart City Limited.
The authorities used to spend .05% of the total project cost on quality testing of any project products such as cement concrete roads, asphalt work, and others. Quality testing costs can be reduced with the assistance of this lab. Currently, the HDSCL and other government agencies are receiving quality testing from private agencies; however, this will change and all quality testing will be performed in the HDSCL Quality Testing Centre.
The laboratory was set up at a cost of Rs 85 lakh, said CW Shakeel Ahmed, Managing Director of HDSCL. Currently, the laboratory will be used to test the quality of materials used in various government projects.
"We have applied for ISO certification, which we expect to receive in three months, and later in nine months of laboratory operation, we will receive another certification with which we can even start to give reports for private projects, which will help to generate revenue," he said.
“With this laboratory we can now test cement used for the project in standard consistency, initial final setting time, soundness test, compression time among others,” he added.