
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Construction Sciences Pty Ltd
Site
Glendenning Laboratory
Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
12385
Date of Accreditation
18 Mar 1997
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 | Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34 | |
| Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |||
| Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
| Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |
| Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
| Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
| Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
| Shape | Average least dimension; Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2 TfNSW TS 02799.12, TfNSW TS 02799.32, TfNSW TS 02799.50 | |||
| 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, AS 1141.19 RMS (NSW) Method T201, RMS (NSW) Method T203 TfNSW TS 02799.02,TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
| Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate reactivity | Aggregates | Alkali reactivity | Length change of concrete | AS 1141.60.2 TfNSW TS 02800.40 | |
| Alkali reactivity potential | Accelerated mortar bar | AS 1141.60.1 TfNSW TS 02800.39 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 TfNSW TS 02799.13 | |
| Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable | AS 1141.21 TfNSW TS 02799.06 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Vebe value | Not applicable | AS 1012.3.3 | |
| Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; T500 | AS 1012.3.1, AS 1012.3.5 ASTM C1611, ASTM C1621 | |||
| Compactibility index | Not applicable | AS 1012.3.4 | |||
| Segregation | Penetration test | ASTM C1712 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar performance | Concrete, grout and mortar | Flexural tensile strength | Limit of proportionality; Residual | BS EN 14651 | |
| Flexural toughness of fibre reinforced concrete and shotcrete | Not applicable | ASTM C1550 | |||
| Flexural performance of fibre reinforced concrete | Beam with third-point loading | ASTM C1609/C1609M | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar permeability | Concrete, grout and mortar | Permeability | Flow rate (no fines concrete) | TfNSW TS 02800.51 | |
| Permeability; Sorptivity | Depth of water penetration | TfNSW TS 02800.38 BS EN 12390-8 | |||
| Permeability | Voids - No fines concrete | TfNSW TS 02800.52 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement | AS 1012.12.1, AS 1012.12.2 | |
| Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11 | |||
| Bleeding | In situ analysis - Freshly mixed concrete | AS 1012.6 | |||
| Specimen preparation | Dressing of voids | TfNSW TS 02800.43 | |||
| Setting time - In situ | Not applicable | AS 1012.18 | |||
| Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14 TfNSW TS 02800.07, TfNSW TS 02800.11, TfNSW TS 02800.49 | |||
| Uniformity of mixing | Not applicable | AS 1379 Appendix A | |||
| Fibre content in fresh concrete | Not applicable | AS 1012.25.1, EN 14721 Method B | |||
| Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 | |||
| Indirect tensile strength | Brazil | AS 1012.10 | |||
| Compacted density - In situ | Relative compaction of concrete pavements | TfNSW TS 02800.55 | |||
| Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |||
| Wet sieving analysis | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02800.26 | |||
| 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 cylindrical specimens; In situ manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens; In situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens; In situ manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes; Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.3, AS 1012.8.4 TfNSW TS 02800.05, TfNSW TS 02800.24, TfNSW TS 02800.49, TfNSW TS 02800.50 | |||
| Specimen manufacture | Mixing concrete in the laboratory | AS 1012.2 | |||
| 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 | Texture depth | Sand patch | TfNSW TS 02799.37 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Point load strength index | Not applicable | AS 4133.4.1 TfNSW TS 02799.21 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |
| Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
| Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 TfNSW TS 02795.02, TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |||
| Liquid limit | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2 TfNSW TS 02795.04 | |||
| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 TfNSW TS 02795.08 | |||
| Moisture content | Drying oven; Hot plate; Microwave oven; Sand bath | AS 1289.2.1.1, AS 1289.2.1.6 TfNSW TS 02795.14, TfNSW TS 02795.15, TfNSW TS 02795.39 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. | ||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1 TfNSW TS 02795.26 | |
| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |||
| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point | AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.06, TfNSW TS 02795.07, TfNSW TS 02796.01, TfNSW TS 02795.24 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. | ||
| 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 electrical properties | Soils | Electrical resistance | Not applicable | AS 1289.4.4.1 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. |
| Relative compaction | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.28 | |||
| Density - In situ | Nuclear gauge; Sand-cone | AS 1289.5.3.1, AS 1289.5.8.1 TfNSW TS 02795.13, TfNSW TS 02795.36 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. | ||
| Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. | ||
| Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
| Moisture ratio | Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. | ||
| 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 | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | TfNSW TS 02795.09 | |
| Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.11 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil natural contaminants | Soils | Acidity | pH | AS 1289.4.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.16 | |
| 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 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. |
| 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 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined | TfNSW TS 02795.10, TfNSW TS 02796.02 | |
| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck; Quarry aggregate from a drill core; Quarry aggregate from a quarry face; Quarry aggregate from a rock spall; Quarry aggregate from boulders | AS 1141.3.1, AS 1141.3.2 TfNSW TS 02794.01 | |
| 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, TfNSW TS 02800.49 | ||
| 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; Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | AS 1289.1.2.1, AS 1289.1.4.1, AS 1289.1.4.2 | Sydney Water Supplier of Field Testing Services. |
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Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
12385
Print date
24 Oct 2026