National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Australian Soil and Concrete Testing
Site
Northern Rivers
Accreditation No.
19644
Site No.
22768
Date of Accreditation
28 Jan 2015
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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Light particles contaminants; Weak particles contaminants | Manual classification; Segregation by density; Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.31, AS 1141.32 MR (Qld) Method Q477 TfNSW TS 02799.51 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Shape | Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14 TfNSW TS 02799.12 |
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| Shape | Average least dimension |
AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2 TfNSW TS 02799.32, TfNSW TS 02799.50 |
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| 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 TfNSW TS 02799.08, TfNSW TS 02799.09 |
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| Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted |
AS 1141.4 TfNSW TS 02799.10, TfNSW TS 02799.11 |
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| Shape | Crushed faces |
TfNSW TS 02799.36 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.12 TfNSW TS 02799.04 |
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| Shape | Flakiness |
AS 1141.15 |
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| Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.19 TfNSW TS 02799.02 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Cohesion of compacted material | Unconfined |
AS 1141.52 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable |
AS 1141.22 TfNSW TS 02799.13 |
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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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Wet sieving analysis | Not applicable |
TfNSW TS 02800.26 |
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| Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture |
AS 1012.11 |
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| Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure |
AS 1012.4.2 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure |
AS 1012.5 |
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| Compacted density - In situ | Relative compaction of concrete pavements |
TfNSW TS 02800.55 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement |
AS 1012.12.1, AS 1012.12.2 |
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| Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder |
AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14 TfNSW TS 02800.07 |
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| Specimen preparation | Dressing of voids |
TfNSW TS 02800.43 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | In situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens |
AS 1012.8.2 TfNSW TS 02800.24 |
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| Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; In situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens |
AS 1012.8.1 TfNSW TS 02800.05 |
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| Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens |
AS 1012.14 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam |
TfNSW TS 02795.22 |
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| Structural performance evaluation | Deflection monitoring |
TfNSW TS 02795.55 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Texture depth | Sand patch |
TfNSW TS 02799.37 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Point load strength index | Not applicable |
AS 4133.4.1 TfNSW TS 02799.21 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.05 |
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| Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1 TfNSW TS 02795.02 |
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| Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable |
AS 1141.19 TfNSW TS 02795.03 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2 TfNSW TS 02795.04 |
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| Moisture content | Correlation; Microwave oven |
AS 1289.2.1.4, AS 1289.2.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.39, TfNSW TS 02799.09 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.05 |
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| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1 TfNSW TS 02795.08 |
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| Moisture content | Hot plate; Sand bath |
TfNSW TS 02795.15 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.14 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point |
AS 1289.5.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.06, TfNSW TS 02796.01, TfNSW TS 02795.24 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.07 |
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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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| Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.5.1 TfNSW TS 02795.26 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Relative compaction | Not applicable |
TfNSW TS 02795.28 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Density index | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.6.1 |
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| Density - In situ | Sand-cone |
AS 1289.5.3.1 |
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| Density - In situ | Sand pouring apparatus |
TfNSW TS 02795.13 |
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| Density - In situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 TfNSW TS 02795.36 |
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| Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation; Measured |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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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 TfNSW TS 02795.23 |
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| 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, TfNSW TS 02796.03 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil modulus and deformation | Soils | Resilient modulus | Permanent deformation | MR (Qld) Method Q139 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.01 |
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| Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment; Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
TfNSW TS 02794.02, TfNSW TS 02794.03 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Lime demand | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02797.02 | |
| Curing of moulded specimens | Not applicable | MR(Qld) Method Q254B | |||
| Cement content; Lime content | Ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) titration; Not applicable |
AS 5101.3.2 TfNSW TS 02797.01 |
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| Sample preparation | Foamed bitumen stabilisation - Field | MR (Qld) Method Q138B | |||
| Stabiliser rate of spread rate | In situ measurement |
TfNSW TS 02796.06 |
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| Compaction | Vacuum saturation | MR (Qld) Method Q147B | |||
| Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
AS 5101.4 TfNSW TS 02795.10, TfNSW TS 02796.02 |
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| Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Foamed bitumen | TfNSW TS 02798.04 | |||
| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile; Quarry aggregate from a rock spall; Quarry aggregate from gabion |
AS 1141.3.1, AS 1141.3.2 (except clauses 7 and 8) TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Hardened concrete by coring |
AS 1012.14 |
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| Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete |
AS 1012.1 TfNSW TS 02800.01 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection by spot sampling |
AS 1289.1.2.1, MR (Qld) Method Q050, MR (Qld) Method Q060, MR (Qld) Method Q061, TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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Accreditation No.
19644
Site No.
22768
Print date
06 Jun 2026