Crawford Research & Consulting offers in-house and in-field wood preservation research services that are customized to client needs. Field durability testing is offered for periods of up to five years.

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Field Testing - Is important because it answers some fundamental questions about the preservative or preservative system durability. Field Testing asseses the inaction of preservative with different wood species, and can be used by any governing bodies on the durability issues.

Crawford Research & Consulting Services Also Include:

• THE DEVELOPMENT OF methodologies for the accurate prediction of long-term performance of durable wood species and treatments.
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF methods that will permit the rapid and quantitative evaluation of long-term preservation performance.
• COMPLETION OF an integrated series of laboratory and field tests with a variety of preservatives and wood species, PROVIDING an assessment of predictive strengths of laboratory tests.