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National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
HiQA Geotechnical
Site
Darwin Laboratory
Accreditation No.
13121
Site No.
20522
Date of Accreditation
04 Jul 2011
Contact
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Client Engagement Activity
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Client engagement activity | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
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 | Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34 | |
Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |||
Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12 | |
Particle density of fine aggregate; Water absorption of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate; Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension | AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2, AS 1141.20.3 | |||
Shape | Crushed faces | AS 1141.18 | |||
Bulk density | Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Bulk density | Compacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Shape | Flakiness | AS 1141.15 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on coarse aggregate | AS 1141.25.2 | |
Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution | AS 1141.24 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt extraction and grading | Asphalts | Bitumen content and aggregate grading | Pressure filter | AS/NZS 2891.3.3 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt field density | Asphalts | Density ratio and air voids | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2891.14.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt mechanical properties | Asphalts | Marshall stability and flow | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2891.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt volumetric properties | Asphalts | Bulk density | Mensuration | AS/NZS 2891.9.2 | |
Voids and density relationship | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2891.8 (clause 4 (f) and 5 (a) only) | |||
Maximum density | Methylated spirits displacement | AS/NZS 2891.7.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone; J-ring | AS 1012.3.1, AS 1012.3.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Cylinder | AS 1012.9 | |
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.1 | |
Specimen manufacture and curing | In-situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens | AS 1012.8.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Texture depth | Sand patch | DOI (NT) Method NTTM 305.1 | |
Penetration depth | Ball embedment | DOI (NT) Method NTTM 215.1 | |||
Layer thickness | Not applicable | DOI (NT) Method NTTM 216.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 | |||
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 | |||
Description, identification and classification | Not applicable | AS 1726 Tables 9 and 10 (Laboratory classification elements only) | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289 3.1.2 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 | |||
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 | AS 1289.5.2.1, DOI (NT) Method NTTM 201.3 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1 | |||
Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | AS 1289.5.4.2 | ||||
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 | Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |
Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |||
Field compaction for conformance | Calculation | DOI (NT) Method NTCP 102.1 | |||
Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation; Measured; Statistical selection of reference values | AS 1289.5.4.1, AS 1289.5.4.3 | |||
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 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | 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 stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined | AS 5101.4, DOI (NT) Method NTTM 203.01 | |
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Asphalts | Not applicable | Extraction of an asphalt core - Wet technique | AS 2891.1.2 | ||
Not applicable | Uncompacted asphalt | AS 2891.1.1 | |||
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete | AS 1012.1 | ||
Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1, AS 1289.1.4.2, DOI (NT) Method NTCP 103.1 | ||
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 | The Carpentaria Highway 1 Annex Facility, Site No 26061 is established from 2 September 2022 until 30 September 2024 for the T21-1483 The Carpentaria Highway Upgrade CHO-140 Project for compaction control and materials testing for Exact Contracting; Contract No T431/22. |
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 | The Tanami Expansion #2 Annex Facility, Site No 25871 is established from 21 March 2022 to 30 September 2024 for the Tanami Expansion #2 Batch Plant Project for geotechnical testing services for Newmont Australia (Tanami Operations); Contract TE2- Batch Plant Laboratory No P4044. |
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | The Tanami Road Annex Facility 2, Site No 26023 is established from 11 July 2022 to 31 October 2024 for the T21-1753 - Tanami Road - Upgrade and Sealing -59km Project for compaction control and materials testing for Exact Contracting; Contract No T442/22 |
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Accreditation No.
13121
Site No.
20522
Print date
31 Aug 2024