Testing

Rigorous testing for unsurpassed quality assurance

All Portastor equipment housings are delivered to you fully fitted out and factory tested - helping to save time and minimise disruption on your site. Off-site construction gives us the opportunity to ensure that, before they leave our premises, your equipment housings are ready for installation.

Factory acceptance testing (FAT)

In our factory, your buildings are assembled and fitted out with all mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems. All cabling is fitted and any air-conditioning, environmental monitoring and fire-suppression systems are set up, before your specialist third-party equipment is installed.

At this stage, with the building fully fitted out, it undergoes rigorous factory acceptance testing to check that all internal equipment, connections, air-conditioning and fire systems are operating. This testing serves as an essential fault-finding exercise and ensures we deliver quality-assured, fully operational equipment housings to our customers.

Larger modular buildings of unlimited dimensions can be assembled on our site for factory acceptance testing, enabling us to provide customers with quality assurances for the entire integrated unit.

Site acceptance testing (SAT)

Once your equipment housings have been delivered and installed on your site, our skilled on-site team will carry out full site acceptance testing. These tests can be tailored to your needs, whether you require limited tests on certain core systems or a repeat of our full factory tests now that the buildings are in-situ.

Our personnel are fully qualified to work in potentially hazardous environments, whether that is beside a busy mainline railway track, on an electricity substation or at an oil refinery. We observe the strictest safety procedures in line with the stringent requirements of many industry sectors.

Project-specific testing

At Portastor we also have the experience and resources to carry out more specialised tests on our buildings to meet the requirements of individual projects or applications.

For example, we have carried out extremely onerous fire tests on buildings for London Underground. These buildings had to meet strict fire-loading standards for use on the underground network. We can also carry out environmental tests to check that air-conditioning systems will perform at specified levels in extreme climatic conditions.

Find out what our customers think…

Take a look at our case studies, to find out how we have fulfilled the diverse requirements of customers in all industry sectors, around the world. You can also visit our manufacturing facilities to see how off-site construction and more than 50 years’ experience can benefit your organisation. We will arrange everything.