
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Construction Sciences Pty Ltd
Site
Adelaide Laboratory
Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
320
Date of Accreditation
10 Aug 2015
Contact
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Establishment of annex facilities | Materials defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Determinations defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Techniques defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | ||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate abrasion | Aggregates | Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value | AS 1141.23 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |
Organic impurities | AS 1141.34 | ||||
Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Shape | Elongation; Flakiness; Flat particles; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14 AS 1141.15 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP240 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP241 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP244 | |
Particle density of fine aggregate; Water absorption of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1 AS 1141.12 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate; Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension | AS 1141.20.3 | |||
Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 | |
Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable | AS 1141.21 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; Stability of super workable concrete; T500 | AS 1012.3.5, ASTM C1611 Appendix X1 | |
Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 | |||
Water retention of concrete | Filtration | Austroads ATM 780; CIA Z17 Appendix A.3 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar permeability | Concrete, grout and mortar | Permeability | Volume change with water absorption - Permeable voids | AS 1012.21 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Water displacement | AS 1012.12.2 | |
Compressive strength | Core | AS 1012.14 | |||
Compressive strength | Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9 | Except clause 4.2 | ||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 | |||
Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11 | |||
Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |||
Indirect tensile strength | Brazil | AS 1012.10 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar shrinkage | Concrete, grout and mortar | Drying shrinkage specimen measurement | Not applicable | AS 1012.13 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.14 | |
Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; In situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens; Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.1 | |||
Specimen manufacture and curing | In situ manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens; Manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.4 | |||
Specimen manufacture and curing | In situ manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes; Manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.3 | |||
Specimen manufacture | Mixing concrete in the laboratory | AS 1012.2 | |||
Specimen manufacture and curing | In situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens; Manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.2 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Liquid limit; Plastic limit; Plasticity index | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 AS 1289.3.2.1 AS 1289.3.3.1 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP141 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP143 | |
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP134 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point | DPTI (SA) MAT-TP164 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1 AS 1289.5.2.1 | |||
Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP166 | |||
Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class | AS 1289.3.8.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |
Density - In situ | Sand-cone | AS 1289.5.3.1 | |||
Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP320 | |||
Density - In situ; Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ penetration | Soils | Penetration depth; Penetration in situ | Ball embedment; Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2, DPTI (SA) MAT-TP349,Austroads Method AGPT/T251 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Estimated CBR from classification test; Remoulded specimens | DPTI (SA) MAT-TP133 | |
Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell | AS 1289.7.1.1 | |
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a conveyor belt; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck | AS 1141.3.1 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP226 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Hardened concrete by coring | AS 1012.14 | ||
Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 | |||
Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling from a windrow; Disturbed soil sampling in situ | AS 1289.1.2.1 | ||
Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1 AS 1289.1.4.2 |
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Annex facility | Materials defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Determinations defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Techniques defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Hillside Diversion Annex Facility, Site No: 27163 is established from 16 June 2025 until 30 June 2027 for Hillside Diversion Project, REX Minerals Hillside Diversion subcontractor order. Contract No: 4228779, McMahon Services Pty Ltd |
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort | AS1289.5.1.1 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS1289.5.2.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS1289.5.4.1 |
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Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
320
Print date
18 Sep 2025