The Standards Organisastion of Nigeria (S0N) has said the agency’s ultra-modern laboratory located at Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos can now be used to test all required quality parameters of sandcrete blocks. Disclosing the development after a successful testing demonstration exercise recently, SON Director in charge of Laboratory services, Bath Ugwu, appealed to operators, block moulders and other stakeholders to approach the Ogba cement laboratory to test and certify sandcrete blocks for quality buildings. x Sandcrete blocks are among the major components of buildings. By deploying a compressive strength testing machine with a belt in the local requirements based on Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS) 978-2017 samples are tested to determine sound and quality sandcrete blocks.