National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Douglas Partners Pty Ltd
Site
Central Coast Laboratory
Accreditation No.
828
Site No.
2666
Date of Accreditation
30 Jun 1989
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 contaminants | Aggregates | Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification |
RMS (NSW) Method T276 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12, RMS (NSW) Method T107;TfNSW T107;, RMS (NSW) Method T201, RMS (NSW) Method T203 |
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| Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, RMS (NSW) Method T213 | |||
| Shape | Crushed faces | AS 1141.18, RMS (NSW) Method T239 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable |
AS 1141.21, RMS (NSW) Method T205, RMS (NSW) Method T216 |
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| Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable |
AS 1141.22, RMS (NSW) Method T215 |
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| 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, RMS (NSW) Method T301 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1, RMS (NSW) Method T316 | |
| Specimen preparation | Capping of compressive strength specimens | RMS (NSW) Method T305 | |||
| Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14, RMS (NSW) Method T306, RMS (NSW) Method T310, RMS (NSW) Method T375 | |||
| 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 grout and mortar cube specimens in the laboratory; In-situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens; In-situ manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.14, RMS (NSW) Method T304, RMS (NSW) Method T310, RMS (NSW) Method T375 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam; Deflection monitoring |
RMS (NSW) Method T160, RMS (NSW) Method T199;TfNSW T199; |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1, RMS (NSW) Method T113;TfNSW T113; |
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| Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T107;TfNSW T107; |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven; Microwave oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1, AS 1289.2.1.4, RMS (NSW) Method T120 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1 |
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| Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1, RMS (NSW) Method T106;TfNSW T106; |
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| Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1, RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105; |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2, RMS (NSW) Method T108;TfNSW T108;TfNSW T105; |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.5.1 |
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| Maximum dry density | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T164 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point |
AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1, RMS (NSW) Method T111, RMS (NSW) Method T112, RMS (NSW) Method T130, RMS (NSW) Method T162 |
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| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class |
AS 1289.3.8.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Relative compaction | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T166 |
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| Moisture ratio | Measured |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1, RMS (NSW) Method T173 |
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| Density index | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.6.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in-situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in-situ | Dynamic cone; Perth sand penetrometer |
AS 1289.6.3.2, AS 1289.6.3.3, RMS (NSW) Method T161 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry |
RMS (NSW) Method T114 |
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| Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T117, RMS (NSW) Method T132 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment; Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
AS 1289.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T102;TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) Method T103;TfNSW T103;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) Method T105 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell |
AS 1289.7.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
RMS (NSW) Method T116, RMS (NSW) Method T131 |
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| Stabiliser working time | Cementitious stabilisation time |
RMS (NSW) Method T147 |
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| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a windrow |
AS 1141.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T100 |
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| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete; Fresh grout | AS 1012.1, RMS (NSW) Method T300, RMS (NSW) Method T375 | ||
| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling from a windrow |
AS 1289.1.2.1, RMS (NSW) Method T100 |
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Accreditation No.
828
Site No.
2666
Print date
20 Jan 2022