School of Engineering staff provide a variety of expert consulting services. Please contact the Consulting and Research Unit of UniQuest Ltd if you require services that are not listed below.

• Centre for High Performance Polymers: The Centre for High Performance Polymers offers a variety of consulting services in the materials area through its association with Applied Materials Characterisation & Performance (AMCP), a registered business of the University's commercial arm, UniQuest Pty Ltd.
  
  
•  JKTech: JKTech, the commercial division of the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre, provides specialised expertise to the Australian and international mining industries.
  
  
•  Pyrosearch: The Pyrometallurgy Research Centre, Pyrosearch undertakes research for the minerals industry worldwide, in the areas of non-ferrous and ferrous metal smelting and refining, and coal utilisation.
  
  
• UQ Materials Performance: UQ Materials Performance is a professional consulting and testing service catering to the mining, manufacturing and agricultural industries and to service industries, wherever advice is needed on materials identification, properties, performance and failure.
  
  
• Division of Civil Engineering: The Division of Civil Engineering offers specialist consulting services in the following areas:
  
  
  • Structural testing & instrument calibration: The Division operates a well equipped Structures Laboratory with a variety of load test machines of varying capacity (0 to 500tonnes - compression & 0 to 200 tonnes - tension). These machines are regularly used for:
    • Strength testing
    • Dynamic loading for fatigue studies
      
      
  • Concrete testing: The Division operates a well equipped Concrete Laboratory capable of the complete range of strength and shrinkage tests. Specialist testing services offered include :
    • Large scale creep testing
    • Fatigue testing
    • Independent testing of new cementitious products 
      
      
  • Wind tunnel testing: The Division operates several wind tunnels including a large boundary layer wind tunnel, 3m wide by 2m high. These wind tunnels are regularly used for:
    • Wind environment studies
    • Wind loading studies on buildings and structures
    • Calibration of anemometers and other air flow meters
      
      
  • Hydraulic and coastal engineering: The Division provides professional services through leading world-experts and physical modelling facilities in the Gordon McKay Hydraulics Laboratory on the St Lucia campus.
    
    
  • Geomechanics: The Division operates a well equipped Geomechanics Laboratory offers a range of testing services to industry, as well as research partners. A standard suite of laboratory and field-based testing is available, which includes such tests as characterisation, compaction, strength, consolidation and hydraulic conductivity testing. In addition, specialised testing services include:
    • Unsaturated soils testing and analysis
    • Analytical determination of the Particle Size Distribution
    • Erosion monitoring
    • Field instrumentation installation and monitoring
    • Numerical analysis
      
      
  • Traffic and transportation engineering: The Division provides professional services through a recently established state-of-the-art Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Laboratory and the Centre for Transport Strategy.