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NRC-IRC Facilities

Building Envelope

• Concrete and Mortar Sample Preparation
• Concrete Physical Testing Laboratory
• Dynamic Wall Testing Facility (DWTF)
• Envelope Environmental Exposure Facility (EEEF)
• Hygrothermal properties of building materials
• Materials Characterization
• Microscopy Laboratory
• Outdoor Exposure Site

Fire

Facilities in Ottawa, Ontario

• Column test furnace
• Cone calorimeter
• Floor test furnace
• Ignition strength / Cigarette test facility
• Intermediate-scale test furnace
• Thermal conductivity apparatus
• Wall test furnace

Facilities in Almonte, Ontario

• Burn hall
• Ten storey tower
• Three storey exterior wall testing facility

Indoor Environment

Acoustics

• Anechoic chamber
• Floor facility
• Flanking facility
• Room Acoustics Test space (RAT room)

Lighting

• Daylighting facility
• Lighting controls laboratory
• Photometric equipment

Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality

• Material emissions laboratory
• Two-Story Research House
• Volatile Organic Compounds Analysis Laboratory (VOCAL)

General

• Canadian Center for Housing Technology (CCHT)
• Indoor Environment Research Facility (IERF)

Infrastructure

• Advanced facilities for assessing durability and service life of concrete: corrosion laboratory, mechanical testers, freeze-thaw durability cabinets, scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffractometer, equipment for measuring ionic diffusivity and permeability
• Asphalt pavement laboratory including thermally controlled pavement mixer, Marshall and two gyratory compactors, digital image analysis equipment
• Complete thermal analysis laboratory for determining degradation processes in construction materials, including bitumens
• Conditioning chambers (-35° to +35°C) 0.4 and 0.9 m3
• 1800-m2 field test site for evaluating diagnostic, rehabilitation and construction technologies for buried waterlines. Over 300 m of concrete and metallic pipes in place. Physical access to both ends of pipelines. Special cathodic protection test capabilities. Trench backfill test area.
• Environmental chambers (-40° to +15° ± 0.1°C) 5.5 x 4.7 x 2.6 m high; (-40° to -12° ± 0.1°C) 5.6 x 5.9 x 2.6 m high; (-20° to +5° ±1°C) 5.1 x 3.2 x 2.2 m high
• Hydraulic actuators with beam and column reaction frames for simultaneous 2-axis cyclic loading tests up to 160 kN
• Physico-chemical laboratory with capabilities including chromatography techniques, spectroscopy techniques, thermal analysis, rheology, electron and other microscopy
• Servo-hydraulic testing frames with environmental chambers
• Thermal properties facilities for evaluating soils and types of insulations for buried works
• Unique material testing table, with combined dynamic shear and tension on slabs up to 0.6 m x 1.2 m