Product & System Testing

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There are many new measures that have been put in place to ensure a more robust regulatory compliance and monitoring system in the UK, and in other countries. Robust preparation and adequacy of testing, is often ignored because of a lack of building physics consideration or, pre-audit review. 3rd party certificates that have been relied upon in the past, are also under immense scrutiny now, post the Grenfell disaster. Ottersbrook are placed and trusted, to manage complex and small test programmes .

We are seeing more and more rejections of test data and approaches to certification bodies now, due to significant scrutiny of quality of data and also, age of data in test and engineering/design reports. This is being driven (amongst other drivers for change) by the publication of the ‘testing for a safer future’ report (Morrell, P, Day, A. & Hackett, J. 2023). Further measures and departments have also been established, such as the Department for Business and Trade’s ‘Office for Product Safety and Standards’ (OPSS), set up in Jan 2018, the initiation of the HSE as a Building Safety Regulator (BSR), under the Building Safety Act, 2022 and the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), created in Dec 2024.

This focus on data quality and relevence, now puts significant pressure on manufacturers, designers and end clients, to be transparent, when providing evidence to support propositions in the market. Such evidence is also subject to 5 year reviews to ensure adequacy and suitability, in a dynamic built environment. Ottersbrook are extremely well placed and aligned to many test labs, certification and regulatory bodies, and also, warranty providers, to ensure MMC solutions and end use projects, are well-engineered, suitably tested and safeguarded against patent and latent defects.

Here are just a few of the organisations Ottersbrook works with on behalf of our clients. With relationships built over nearly 40 years, we understand exactly how certification and compliance processes can go wrong—and, more importantly, how to coordinate them flawlessly to protect your project, your products, your reputation, and your time and costs.