
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 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |
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 | |||
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 | |||
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 RMS (NSW) Method 301 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compacted density - In situ | Relative compaction of concrete pavements | RMS (NSW) Method T381 TfNSW TS 02800.55 | |
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 RMS (NSW) Method T306TfNSW TS 02800.07 | Except clause 4.2 | ||
Specimen preparation | Dressing of voids | RMS (NSW) Method T368 TfNSW TS 02800.43 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 RMS (NSW) Method T316TfNSW TS 02800.16 | |||
Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 RMS (NSW) Method T320TfNSW TS 02800.20 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 RMS (NSW) Method T303TfNSW TS 02800.04 | |||
Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11 RMS (NSW) Method T328TfNSW TS 02800.25 | |||
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 | 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 | 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 RMS (NSW) Method T304TfNSW TS 02800.05 | |||
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 RMS (NSW) Method T327TfNSW TS 02800.24 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Texture depth | Sand patch | RMS (NSW) Method T240 TfNSW TS 02799.37 | |
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 | |
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP134 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | 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 | |||
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point | DPTI (SA) MAT-TP164 | |||
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 | Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 DPTI (SA) MAT-TP320 | |
Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
Density - In situ; Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Density - In situ | Sand-cone | AS 1289.5.3.1 | |||
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 | |
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 | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 RMS (NSW) Method T300TfNSW TS 02800.01 | ||
Not applicable | Hardened concrete by coring | AS 1012.14 | |||
Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1 AS 1289.1.4.2 | ||
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 |
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 | Prominent Hill Annex. Site No 26673 is established from 22 April 2024 until 8 October 2025 for Wira Shaft Project, contract OZ Minerals Prominent Hill Operations Pty Ltd - Wira Shaft - PH concrete QA/QC Testing, contract No BHP138723_40424. |
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Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
320
Print date
18 Feb 2025