
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Australian Soil and Concrete Testing P/L
Site
ASCT Narrabri
Accreditation No.
21697
Site No.
25851
Date of Accreditation
12 Dec 2025
Contact
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
| Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt; Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Weak particles contaminants | Manual classification; Settling; Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32, AS 1141.33, TfNSW TS 02799.43, TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, TfNSW TS 02799.12 | |
| Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4, TfNSW TS 02799.10, TfNSW TS 02799.11 | |||
| Particle density of coarse aggregate; Particle density of fine aggregate; Water absorption of coarse aggregate; Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable; Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5, AS 1141.6.1, TfNSW TS 02799.08, TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |||
| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12, TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
| Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.19, TfNSW TS 02799.02 | |||
| Shape | Crushed faces | TfNSW TS 02799.36 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22, TfNSW TS 02799.13 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Segregation; Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; Stability of super workable concrete; T350 | AS 1012.3.1, TfNSW TS 02800.02; ASTM C1611, ASTM C1621, ASTM C1712 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11, TfNSW TS 02800.25 | |
| Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9; AS 1012.14, TfNSW TS 02800.07; TfNSW TS 02800.11 | |||
| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement | AS 1012.12.1, AS 1012.12.2 | |||
| Specimen preparation | Dressing of voids | TfNSW TS 02800.43 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing grout and mortar cube specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.3 | |
| Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; In situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens | AS 1012.8.2, TfNSW TS 02800.05, TfNSW TS 02800.24 | |||
| 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 | AS 1012.8.1, TfNSW TS 02800.05 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam; Deflection monitoring | TfNSW TS 02795.22, TfNSW TS 02795.55 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1, TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |
| Liquid limit | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2, TfNSW TS 02795.04 | |||
| Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable | AS 1141.19, TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |||
| Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.14 | |||
| Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1, TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1, TfNSW TS 02795.08 | |||
| Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1, TfNSW TS 02795.02 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point | AS 1289.5.1.1; TfNSW TS 02795.06, TfNSW TS 02795.24, TfNSW TS 02796.01 | |
| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1; TfNSW TS 02795.07 | |||
| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |||
| Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1, TfNSW TS 02795.26 | |||
| 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 - In situ | Sand pouring apparatus; Sand-cone | AS 1289.5.3.1, TfNSW TS 02795.13 | |
| Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation; Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
| Density - In situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1, TfNSW TS 02795.36 | |||
| Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
| Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
| Relative compaction | Measured | TfNSW TS 02795.28 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ penetration | Soils | Penetration depth; Penetration in situ | Ball embedment; Dynamic cone; Perth sand penetrometer | AS 1289.6.3.2, AS 1289.6.3.3, TfNSW TS 02795.23, Austraods Mehtod AGPT/T251 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | TfNSW TS 02795.09 | |
| Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.11, TfNSW TS 02796.03 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment; Repeated compaction pre-treatment | TfNSW TS 02794.02, TfNSW TS 02794.03 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil sample preparation | Soils | Preparation of disturbed samples | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined | TfNSW TS 02795.10, TfNSW TS 02796.02 | |
| Stabiliser rate of spread rate | In situ measurement | TfNSW TS 02796.06 | |||
| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile; Quarry aggregate from a rock spall; Quarry aggregate from gabion | AS 1141.3.1, AS 1141.3.2 (except clauses 7 and 8), TfNSW TS 02794.01 | |
| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete | AS 1012.1, TfNSW TS 02800,.01 | ||
| Not applicable | Hardened concrete by coring | AS 1012.14 | |||
| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection by spot sampling | AS 1289.1.2.1, TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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Accreditation No.
21697
Site No.
25851
Print date
15 Dec 2025