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Grid service technologies are often used to increase computational capacity. However, they may also be used to connect and share physical resources in a coordinated manner. This technology is showing potential applications in earthquake engineering where structural seismic response, measured by testing, is used to understand structural failures and to assess the effectiveness of new seismic counter-measures. Such tests require to be carried out at large scale, exceeding the capacity of any one lab, both financially and due to physical size. Recently testing techniques have been implemented allowing tests to be distributed across many sites. Grid technologies are therefore utilised to share geographically distributed heterogeneous resources, connecting legacy systems in different earthquake engineering laboratories. This paper presents the grid services architecture and communication model to be used to facilitate efficient distributed earthquake testing within the framework of the UK Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (UK-NEES).