Building & Construction

Ensure Durability. Meet Fire Safety Requirements. Optimize Performance.

Polymers play a key role in modern construction – from insulation materials and pipes to sealants, coatings, and structural components.

These materials must perform reliably over long lifetimes while being exposed to temperature changes, mechanical stress, environmental influences, and critical fire scenarios.

Understanding their behavior is essential to allow for:

  • long-term durability
  • consistent performance
  • regulatory compliance
  • fire safety


NETZSCH combines Thermal Analysis, Kriechen (Rheologie)Creep is one of the earliest “controlled stress” rheometer tests that quite literally “creeps” the material, i.e. we measure over a relatively prolonged period the small movement (the creep defined as creep compliance, J) of the sample by applying a small constant stress.Rheology, Thermophysical Testing, and Fire Testing to provide a complete understanding of polymer materials in construction.

Discover how NETZSCH supports polymer materials in construction with advanced analytical solutions.

How NETZSCH Supports Your Applications

  • Polymer insulation materials (PU, EPS, XPS)
  • Pipes and profiles (PVC, PE)
  • Sealants and adhesives
  • Coatings and membranes
  • Flame-retardant polymer systems
  • Thermal expansion and dimensional instability
  • Ageing and environmental degradation
  • Performance of flame-retardant systems
  • Fire behavior and compliance
  • Variability in recycled or modified materials

 

With NETZSCH solutions, you can:

  • Meet compliance with fire safety regulations
  • Improve durability and lifetime performance
  • Optimize insulation properties
  • Understand ageing and degradation
  • Develop safer and more reliable materials

Understand how polymers behave under temperature:

  • Glass transition and melting behavior (DSC)
  • Thermal stability and decomposition (TGA)
  • Expansion and shrinkage (TMA, DIL)


Gain:

  • material stability
  • dimensional accuracy
  • long-term performance

For coatings, sealants, and adhesives:

  • Flow behavior during application
  • Viscoelastic properties
  • Curing behavior


Optimize:

  • processability
  • application quality
  • performance consistency

Fire behavior is critical for construction polymers.

NETZSCH solutions provide insights into:

  • Ignition behavior
  • Heat release rate (HRR)
  • Smoke development
  • Flame-retardant effectiveness

 

Using e.g., the TCC 918 Cone Calorimeter or the LOI 910 Oxygen Index, you can:

  • evaluate fire performance
  • meet safety standards
  • optimize formulations

For polymer-based insulation systems:

  • Thermal conductivity (HFM)
  • Thermal diffusivity (LFA)


Improve:

  • energy efficiency
  • insulation performance

Why Polymer Characterization Matters

Construction polymers are often complex, modified systems:

  • filled and reinforced materials
  • multi-layer structures
  • flame-retardant formulations
     

Their performance depends strongly on:

  • temperature-dependent behavior
  • composition and additives
  • ageing and degradation mechanisms
     

Reliable analytical data is key to developing safe and durable construction materials.

Products for the Building Industry

Please find here a selection of NETZSCH instruments, representing just a part of our comprehensive portfolio of solutions.

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