
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Coffey Testing Pty Ltd
Site
Canberra Laboratory
Accreditation No.
431
Site No.
606
Date of Accreditation
19 Dec 1966
Contact
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
| Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt; Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Organic impurities; Weak particles contaminants | Colour test; Manual classification; Settling | AS 1141.32, AS 1141.33, AS 1141.34, TfNSW TS 02799.38,TfNSW TS 02799.43,TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4, TfNSW TS 02799.10,TfNSW TS 02799.11 | |
| Moisture content | Drying oven | TfNSW TS 02799.39 | |||
| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12, TfNSW TS 02799.02,TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
| Shape | Average least dimension; Crushed faces; Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2, AS 1141.20.3, TfNSW TS 02799.12,TfNSW TS 02799.32,TfNSW TS 02799.36,TfNSW TS 02799.50 | |||
| Particle density of coarse aggregate; Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5, AS 1141.6.1, TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |||
| 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 | Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14, TfNSW TS 02800.07 | |
| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement | AS 1012.12.1, AS 1012.12.2 | |||
| Indirect tensile strength | Brazil | AS 1012.10 | |||
| Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen conditioning; Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; Curing flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; Curing grout and mortar cube specimens in the laboratory; In situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens; In situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.3, AS 1012.14, TfNSW TS 02800.05,TfNSW TS 02800.11,TfNSW TS 02800.24 | |
| 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 - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Skid resistance | British pendulum portable tester | AS 1141.42 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Point load strength index | Laboratory measurement | AS 4133.4.1, TfNSW TS 02799.21 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Fine particles in road materials; Linear shrinkage; Liquid limit; Moisture content; Plastic limit; Plasticity index; Sieve analysis | Casagrande; Drying oven; Microwave oven | AS 1289.2.1.1; AS 1289.2.1.4; AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2, AS 1289.3.2.1, AS 1289.3.3.1, AS 1289.3.4.1, AS 1289.3.6.1, TfNSW TS 02795.02,TfNSW TS 02795.03,TfNSW TS 02795.04,TfNSW TS 02795.05,TfNSW TS 02795.08,TfNSW TS 02795.14,TfNSW TS 02795.19,TfNSW TS 02795.39 | mobile capability - moisture content - drying oven |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD); Dry density/moisture content relationship; Minimum and maximum dry density | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1, AS 129.5.4.2, AS 1289.5.5.1, TfNSW TS 02795.06,TfNSW TS 02795.07,TfNSW TS 02796.01,TfNSW TS 02795.26 | mobile capability - dry density/moisture content relationship; assignment of OMC/MDD |
| 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 | Compaction control; Density - In situ; Density index; Dry density ratio; Field moisture content; Moisture ratio | Calculation; Hilf; Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.4.1, AS 1289.5.6.1, AS 1289.5.7.1, AS 1289.5.8.1, TfNSW TS 02795.24,TfNSW TS 02795.28,TfNSW TS 02795.36 | mobile capability - compaction control, dry density ratio, moisture ratio, field moisture content, density in-situ |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ penetration | Soils | Penetration - In situ | Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2, TfNSW TS 02795.23 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.11 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment; Not applicable; Repeated compaction pre-treatment | TfNSW TS 02794.02,TfNSW TS 02794.03 | mobile capability |
| 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 | Mobile capability - Preparation only |
| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 | |
| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Hardened concrete by coring | AS 1012.1, AS 1012.14, TfNSW TS 02800.01 | ||
| 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, TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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Accreditation No.
431
Site No.
606
Print date
23 Apr 2026