Sandberg is an independent private, professional partnership founded in 1860 with a global reputation for excellence. We provide consultancy, testing and inspecting services on construction industry materials, practices and processes throughout the world.
National and international clients include government and public authorities, consulting engineers, architects, surveyors, civil engineering and building contractors, property developers and managers, lawyers and manufacturers and suppliers of building materials.
Quality of Service
The Sandberg service is founded upon four factors:
- 160 years of professional excellence which underlies the practice’s determination to provide services of the highest quality using our substantial reservoir of experience
- Specialised staff and expert consultants whose professional ability and integrity is evident in every aspect of their work
- The ability to be at the forefront of our field
- Close national and international links with colleagues in universities, research organisations, advisory bodies and others
Organisation
Sandberg comprises three co-ordinated areas of activities:
- Consultancy Services
- Laboratories
- Site Services
These areas of activity are closely interwoven to provide comprehensive and relevant services to meet individual client’s requirements. This collective approach to the client’s needs and problems predominates, with each area able to call upon any of the others to help solve a particular problem. In this way, our clients can be assured of a comprehensive and thorough service.
Furthermore, within the Sandberg Group are three separate businesses of Geomaterials Research Services Ltd, Building Testing Ltd and Midland Corrosion Services Ltd.
Geomaterials joined us in 2008, further enhancing our consulting services in all aspects of geomaterials. For more information, see www.geomaterials.co.uk.
Building Testing joined us in 2011, adding services such as building airtightness consultancy and the testing and analysis of raised access flooring systems. For more information, see www.buildingtesting.co.uk.
Midland Corrosion Services, a niche provider of high-level corrosion consultancy services to industry, joined us in 2018. For more information, see www.midlandcorrosion.co.uk.
The firm’s head office is situated at 40 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1, where it has been since 1919. Laboratories are based in London at Victoria and Clapham.
Client Confidentiality
Sandberg places a high value on client confidentiality, following a code of conduct in accordance with the Association for Consultancy and Engineering of which the firm is a member.
Testing Accreditation
Sandberg was one of the first construction materials related laboratories to receive UKAS testing accreditation in May 1985 (by the UKAS fore-runner NATLAS). Its laboratories have UKAS testing accreditation for a wide range of sampling and testing services both in the laboratory and on-site. Sandberg is also a corporate member of the Institute of Expert Witnesses.