National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Boral Resources (NSW) Pty Ltd
Site
Materials Technical Services – Boral Construction Materials
Accreditation No.
547
Site No.
540
Date of Accreditation
31 Aug 1965
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 abrasion | Aggregates | Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value; Resistance to wear by attrition | AS 1141.23; AS 1141.27; RMS (NSW) Method T204; ASTM D7428 TfNSW TS 02799.05 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate binder adhesion | Aggregates | Initial adhesion; Resistance to stripping | Not applicable; Standard plate | AS 1141.50; RMS (NSW) Method T230; T238 TfNSW TS 02799.27,TfNSW TS 02799.35 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt; Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Light particles contaminants; Organic impurities; Sugar; Sulfur - Present as water-soluble sulfate; Weak particles contaminants | Colour test; Segregation by density; Settling; Sieve analysis | AS 1141.31; As 1141.32; AS 1141.33; AS 1141.34; AS 1141.35; AS 1141.36; RMS (NSW) Methods T202; T218; T219; T260; T264; T268; T269; T276 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate polishing | Aggregates | Polished aggregate friction value | Horizontal wheel; Pendulum friction test | AS 1141.41; AS 1141.42; RMS (NSW) Methods T231; T233 | |
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 2 ?m; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1; AS 1141.12; AS 1141.13; AS 1141.19; RMS (NSW) Methods T201, T203; T270; MTS-AGG-1 | |
Moisture content | Drying oven | RMS (NSW) Method T262 TfNSW TS 02799.39 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension; Crushed faces; Flakiness; Proportional calliper; Ratio greatest to least dimension | AS 1141.14; AS 1141.15; AS 1141.18; AS 1141.20.1; AS 1141.20.2; AS 1141.20.3; RMS (NSW) Methods T213; T235; T239; T275; T278 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate; Particle density of fine aggregate; Water absorption of coarse aggregate; Water absorption of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5; AS 1141.6.1; NZS 3111 Part 16; RMS (NSW) Methods T209, T210 | |||
Bulk density; Shape | Assessment by flow time and void content; Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4; NZS 3111 Part 19; RMS (NSW) Methods T211; T212; T279; AASSHTO T304, MTS-AGG-1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate reactivity | Aggregates | Alkali reactivity; Alkali reactivity potential | Accelerated mortar bar; Length change of concrete | AS 1141.60.1; AS 1141.60.2; RMS (NSW) Method T363; T364; TfNSW TS 02800.39,TfNSW TS 02800.40 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on coarse aggregate; Degradation factor on fine aggregate; Degradation factor on source rock; Exposure to sodium sulfate solution; Methylene blue value | AS 1141.24; AS 1141.25.1; AS 1141.25.2; AS 1141.25.3; AS 1141. 66; RMS (NSW) MethodS T266; T659 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value; Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.21; AS 1141.22; RMS (NSW) Method T205; T215 TfNSW TS 02799.06,TfNSW TS 02799.13 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt extraction and grading | Asphalts | Bitumen content and aggregate grading | Reflux | AS/NZS 2891.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T607 TfNSW TS 02806.08 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt filler | Asphalts | Apparent particle density of filler; Voids in dry compacted filler; Water soluble fraction of filler | Not applicable | AS/NZS 1141.7; AS/NZS 1141.8; AS/NZS 1141.17 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt mechanical properties | Asphalts | Marshall stability and flow | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2891.5, RMS (NSW) Method T604 TfNSW TS 02806.05 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt performance | Asphalts | Fatigue life; Resilient modulus; Wheel tracking stability | Flexural bending; Indirect tensile; Wheel tracking machine | AS/NZS 2891.13.1, Austroads Methods AGPT/T231; AGPT/T233; AGPT/T274 | |
Stripping potential | Tensile strength ratio | RMS (NSW) Methods T640; T649; Austroads method AGPT/T232 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt specimen manufacture | Asphalts | Specimen compaction; Specimen conditioning | Compaction of asphalt slabs; Gyratory compaction; Handling and conditioning | AS/NZS 2891.2.1, AS/NZS 2891.2.2, AS/NZS 2891.5, RMS (NSW) Method T602, Austroads Method AGPT/T220 TfNSW TS 02806.03 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt volumetric properties | Asphalts | Bulk density; Maximum density; Voids and density relationship | Mensuration; Methylated spirits displacement; Presaturation; Water displacement; Waxing | AS/NZS 2891.7.3, AS/NZS 2891.8, AS/NZS 2891.9.1, AS/NZS 2891.9.2, AS/NZS 2891.9.3, RMS (NSW) Methods T605, AS/NZS 2891.7.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar chemical tests | Concrete, grout and mortar | Chloride level in hardened concrete; Chloride penetration resistance; Sulfate level in hardened concrete | Nitric acid; Nordtest method; Water soluble | AS 1012.20.1; AS 1012 20.2; ASTM C1202; AASHTO T277; CSA A23.2-4B; Nordtest Method NT Build 492 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compactibility index; Compaction factor; Segregation; Slump flow; Vebe value | Cone; J-ring; L-box; Sieve analysis; T500 | AS 1012.3.1; AS 1012.3.3; AS 1012.3.4; AS 1012.3.5; ASTM C1611; ASTM C1621; ASTM C1712; EN 12350-11; BS EN 12350 -10; TfNSW TS 02800.58 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar deformation | Concrete, grout and mortar | Modulus of elasticity | Poisson's ratio; Static chord modulus | AS 1012.17 | |
Creep | Not applicable | AS 1012.16 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar performance | Concrete, grout and mortar | Flexural tensile strength | Limit of proportionality; Residual | EN 14651 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar permeability | Concrete, grout and mortar | Permeability | Resistivity as an indicator of permeability | AASHTO T358 | |
Permeability | Voids - No fines concrete; Volume change with water absorption - Permeable voids | AS 1012.21; AS 3799 Appendix B; RMS (NSW) Methods T362; T377; T378; DIN EN 12390-8 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete | Fibre content in fresh concrete; Fibre content in hardened concrete | Not applicable | EN 14721; AS 1012.25.1 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Bleeding | In situ analysis - Freshly mixed concrete | AS 1012.6 | ||
Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11 | |||
Setting time - In situ; Setting time - Laboratory | Not applicable | AS 1012.18 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement | AS 1012.12.1; AS 1012.12.2 | |||
Maturity | Estimation of concrete strength | ASTM C1074 | |||
Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9; AS 1012.14 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 | |||
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 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 manufacture | Mixing concrete in the laboratory | AS 1012.2 | |
Specimen conditioning; Specimen manufacture; Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; Dry conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens; 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; Mixing concrete in the laboratory; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.8.1; AS 1012.8.2; AS 1012.8.3; AS 1012.8.4; AS 1012.14; RMS (NSW) Method T304; RMS (NSW) Method T376 TfNSW TS 02800.05,TfNSW TS 02800.50, TfNSW TS 02800.57 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Masonry, concrete and clay unit properties | Masonry, concrete and clay units | Size | Not applicable | AS 4046.1; AS 4046.2 | |
Permeability; Water absorption | Not applicable | AS 4046.4; As 4046.5; AS/NZS 4058 Appendix F | |||
Resistance to salt attack | Not applicable | AS 4046.7; AS 4456.10 (Method B) | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Skid resistance | British pendulum portable tester | AS 4663 Appendix A; AS 4586 Appendix A | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Point load strength index | Not applicable | AS 4133.4.1; RMS (NSW) Method T223 TfNSW TS 02799.21 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil chemical properties | Soils | Organic matter; Solids - Deposited; Soluble sulfate | Acid extraction; Gravimetric; Loss on ignition (LOI) | AS 1289.4.1.1; AS 1289.4.2.1; RMS (NSW) Methods T1010; T1011; BS 1377 Part 3 Section 5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Fine particles in road materials; Linear shrinkage; Liquid limit; Moisture content; Particle density; Plastic limit; Plasticity index; Sieve analysis | Casagrande; Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point; Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1; 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 1289.3.5.1; AS 1289.3.6.1; RMS (NSW) Methods T106;TfNSW T106;; T107;TfNSW T107;; T108;TfNSW T108;TfNSW T105;; T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105;; T113;TfNSW T113;; T120; T127; MR (Qld) Methods Q102A; Q103A TfNSW TS 02795.01,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 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | 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 1289.5.5.1; RMS (NSW) Methods T111; T112; T130 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Sand equivalent | AS 1289.3.7.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil electrical properties | Soils | Electrical resistance | Not applicable | AS 1289.4.4.1; RMS (NSW) Method T185 TfNSW TS 02795.43 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1; RMS (NSW) Methods T117; T132 | |
Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | RMS (NSW) Methods T114; T116; T131 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil natural contaminants | Soils | Acidity; Acidity - Potential | pH | AS 1289.4.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T123 TfNSW TS 02795.16 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil permeability | Soils | Permeability | Constant head for a remoulded specimen; Falling head for a remoulded specimen | AS 1289.6.7.1; AS 1289.6.7.2 | |
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) Methods T102;TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105;; T103;TfNSW T103;TfNSW T105;; T105; MR (Qld) Method Q101 TfNSW TS 02794.02,TfNSW TS 02794.03,TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil shear strength | Soils | Shear strength | Direct shear force; Effective angle of internal friction | AS 1289.6.2.2; MR (Qld) Method Q181C | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Cement content; Lime content | Ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) titration | AS 5101.3.2; RMS (NSW) Method T143 TfNSW TS 02797.01 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil triaxial strength | Soils | Triaxial strength | Modified triaxial confined; Modified triaxial unconfined | RMS (NSW) Method T171 TfNSW TS 02795.33 | |
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a bin; Aggregate from a conveyor belt; Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck; Aggregate from a windrow | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Not applicable | Quarry aggregate from a rock spall; Quarry aggregate from gabion | MTS-AGG-1 | |||
Asphalts | Not applicable | Extraction of a compacted asphalt slab; Extraction of an asphalt core - Dry technique; Uncompacted asphalt | AS/NZS 2891.1.1; AS 2891.1.2 | ||
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete; Hardened concrete by coring | AS 1012.1; AS 1012.14 |
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Materials
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Analysis of bituminous materials - Properties | Bituminous materials | Flash point | Cleveland open cup | ASTM D92 | |
Softening point | Ring and ball | AS 2341.18; Austroads Method AGPT/T131 | |||
Sieve residue | Sieve analysis | AS/NZS 2341.20 | |||
Torsional recovery | Not applicable | Austroads Method AGPT/T122 | |||
Ductility; Viscosity | Brookfield viscometer; Dynamic - Capillary tube; Kinematic; Rotational | AS/NZS 2341.2, AS/NZS 2341.4, Austroads Method AGPT/T111, ASTM D7175 | |||
Penetration of bitumen | Not applicable | AS 2341.12 | |||
Density | Density bottle | AS 2341.7 | |||
Sample handling and conditioning | Not applicable | Austroads Method AGPT/T102 | |||
Viscosity | Dynamic shear rheometer | Austroads Method AGPT/T192 | |||
Permanent recovery and creep | Dynamic shear rheometer | ASTM D7405; AASHTO T315; AASHTO T350 | |||
Rolling thin film oven (RTFO) | Effect of heat and air on a moving film of bitumen | ASTM D2872; Austroads Method AGPT/T103 | |||
Sedimentation | Not applicable | Austroads Method AGPT/T108 | |||
Analysis of cements and cementitious materials - Composition | Cement products | Insoluble residue | Not applicable | AS 2350.9 | |
Water content | Not applicable | AS 3583.2 | |||
Cement products; Pozzolanic materials | Loss on ignition | Not applicable | AS 3583.3 | ||
Pozzolanic materials | Sulfur trioxide (sulfuric anhydride) | Classical - Dry ingredients; Classical - Hydrated material | AS 3583.8 | ||
Analysis of cements and cementitious materials - Properties | Cement products | Sample preparation of portland and blended cement | Not applicable | AS 2350.12 | |
Consistency; Setting time | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2350.3; AS/NZS 2350.4 | |||
Fineness; Fineness index | Air permeability; Not applicable | AS 2350.8; AS 3583.1 | |||
Soundness | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2350.5 | |||
Drying shrinkage; Length change | Length change with exposure to sulfate solution | AS 2350.13; AS 2350.14 | |||
Cement products; Pozzolanic materials | Accelerated pozzolanic strength activity; Compressive strength; Relative strength and water requirement | Not applicable | AS/NZS 2350.11; AS 3583.6; ASTM C1240 Part 16 | ||
Pozzolanic materials | Relative density (specific gravity) | Displacement | AS 3583.5 |
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 Lobbs Hole Annex Facility, Site No. is established from 1 June 2022 until 17 November 2027 for on the Snowy 2.0 Project, Contract No. 64000 for Future Generation Joint Venture (FGJV) |
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 Polo Flat Annex Facility, Site No. 25914 is established from 26 April 2022 until 17 November 2027 for works on the Snowy 2.0 Project, Contract No. 6400047187 for Future Generation Joint Venture (FGJV) |
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 Tantangara Annex Facility, Site No. is established from 20 May 2022 until 17 November 2027 for on the Snowy 2.0 Project, Contract No. 6400047187 for Future Generation Joint Venture (FGJV) |
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Accreditation No.
547
Site No.
540
Print date
25 Nov 2024