The laboratory is housed on the ground floor of the Civil Engineering Building and has a floor area of 6,000 sqft. This is the largest structural engineering testing facility in the country equipped with modern testing machines and equipment. Routine strength tests of various materials like steel, timber, plastic, rubber etc. are carried out in the Structures and Materials Laboratory as per the relevant standards. On-site nondestructive strength evaluation is also conducted. Some of the testing machines include ten universal testing machines with various capacities, of which four have a capacity of 200 ton, impact testing machine, compression testing machine for beams (capacity: 10 ton), column buckling test frame, hardness tester machine etc. A few of the many tests carried out in this lab are tension test including wt. and elongation, bend test, HT wire tension test, impact test, prestressing wire and anchorage test, hydraulic jack testing and calibration in the 1000 ton reaction frame etc.