Aerial view of intersecting highways with moving vehicles.

Roads and highways

Safe roads and highways are a crucial elements of infrastructure. This applies to both new contraction of asphalt pavements as to maintenance, so it is important to keep a close eye on the condition of roads. Thereby the awareness among road authorities for a safe road surface also leads to an increasing demand for carrying out control measurement.
Kiwa can help and support in every step of the construction chain for both roads and highways. We have a number of testing systems, to test virtually all characteristics that may apply to the design, construction and management of roads, industrial sites and airports.

On site testing

Kiwa has the knowledge and newest equipment to test roads and highways on site. By international cooperation, we can offer our services Europe-wide.

With Europe’s largest skid resistance vehicle and the new 3D laser device, we offer lots of services with a high level of efficiency. All functional properties can be determined in just one run. We have developed our testing techniques which no longer hinder traffic:

  • Texture
  • Skid resistance
  • Uneveness
  • Ride comfort (IRI)
  • Ravelling
  • Road Markings
  • Cracking
  • Potholes
  • and many more

Laboratory testing

Besides to the testing on site, we test all relevant properties of road construction materials in our own fully equipped and state of the art laboratories. Our services for roads and highways are completed by research & development, consulting and geotechnical services for our international and national acting customers.

For roads and highways, Kiwa is certifying

  • road markings and the application of road markings
  • road barriers
  • asphalt & concrete and ancillary products like gravel sand, fillers etc.
  • road equipment like traffic control

As a notified body, we offer our services according the European technical specifications for the CE-marking, but also according to national standards. We are using our international Kiwa network to offer our services worldwide on all continents.

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Road testing - Kiwa KOAC

Get up close and personal with our laboratories on wheels

Kiwa has advanced measuring vehicles for measuring the properties of larger road areas. This makes it possible to measure, among other things, the skid resistance of the road surface and the road texture.
Asphalt and pavement materials lab

Take a look around in our test lab for materials for roads and other pavements

In Kiwa's brand new test lab for materials for roads and other pavements, civil engineering and environmental hygiene research is carried out into asphalt and other pavement materials. The cement setting speed can also be measured here. Learn all about it in our virtual tour!

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