SGS Provides Inspection Services for Steel Structured Building in Taipei City, Taiwan

June 23, 2011 - PRLog -- SGS Industrial Services was awarded a contract to provide comprehensive inspection and testing services for the construction of a thirty-eight storey steel structured building, located at Chin Shan South Road in Taipei City, Taiwan, on April 28, 2011.

Throughout the entire contract, scheduled for construction from July 2011 to March 2012, SGS Industrial Services will perform Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Services, including Ultrasonic Testing, Magnetic Particle Testing, Quality Assurance and Quality Control to ensure the highest quality of the steel structure, with respect to national and international standards and requirements.

With Non-Destructive Testing (link to: http://www.sgs.com/non-destructive_testing?serviceId=10061644&lobId=5550), SGS will inspect the steel structure for defects and discontinuities at the manufacturer’s factory as well as on the construction site. Based on the experience and expertise in projects of this kind, SGS will apply Ultrasonic Testing and Magnetic Particle Testing, both NDT methods, for the investigation of the steel structure and welds. For Ultrasonic Testing SGS makes use of sound waves with short wavelengths and high frequencies to identify flaws and measure any variations in the thickness of the steel structure to detect corrosion. By measuring these sound waves, skilled SGS experts can define the location and size of any imperfection, respective to the wall thickness of the steel structure.

In order to detect cracks on or just below the surface of the steel structure, SGS will apply Magnetic Particle Testing (link to: http://www.sgs.com/magnetic-particle-testing?serviceId=10...), NDT technique which sends a magnetic flux through the material. With Magnetic Particle Testing, SGS determines the length of an imperfection in a very reliable way.

Furthermore, SGS will carry out Quality Assurance and Quality Control at the manufacturer’s site in order to ensure that the steel structure will satisfy the customer’s requirements in a systematic and reliable way and that it is in accordance with all contractual specifications, codes and standards.

Applying its first-rate experience and competence, SGS helps the client to ensure that the steel structured building will satisfy stringent quality requirements and regulations and will be in accordance with national and international standards.

About SGS Industrial Services

Industrial Services (link to: http://www.sgs.com/_industrial?lobId=5550) is one of the major business lines of the SGS Group, a global service provider for technical verification, inspection, testing and conformity assessment. SGS Industrial Services ensures that the customer’s installations, material, equipment, facilities and projects meet all quality and performance requirements, whether they are regulatory, voluntary or customer based. Industrial Services has decades’ worth of experience and some remarkable references in serving key industries, such as Construction, Industrial Manufacturing and Trade, the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry, Power Generation and Transmission, Banks and Financial Institutions as well as Renewable Energy.

For further information, please contact:

SGS Industrial Services
Elmo Chin
Manager - Non-Destructive Testing
SGS Taiwan Ltd.
61, Kai-Fa Rd,
Nanzih Export Processing Zone,
81170 Kaohsiung, Taiwan

t: +886 7 3012121 ext 1600
f: +886 7 3011172

Email: industrial.pr@sgs.com
Web: www.sgs.com/industrial

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