An independent fire testing and certification laboratory at Kelso, Washington, founded in 1994 and accredited by the International Accreditation Service to ISO/IEC 17025 (TL-180). Its scope is the fire-resistance canon a North American specification is written against — ASTM E119, E814 and E1529, UL 263, CAN/ULC S101, ISO 834, NFPA 251 and BS 476 — which makes it one of the few West Coast options for rating an assembly without shipping it across the country.