National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Pacific Blue Metal Pty Ltd
Site
Pacific Blue Metal Testing Laboratory – Pacific Blue Metal Laboratory
Accreditation No.
16993
Site No.
18519
Date of Accreditation
20 Jan 2010
Address
113-116 Possum Brush Road
Possum Brush, NSW 2430
Australia
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 | Clay and fine silt | Settling |
AS 1141.33, TfNSW TS 02799.43 |
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| Organic impurities | Colour test |
AS1141.34, TfNSW TS 02799.38 |
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| Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.32 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Bulk density | Compacted | AS 1141.4 | |
| Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials |
AS 1141.19, TfNSW TS 02795.03 |
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| Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water |
AS 1141.5, TfNSW TS 02799.09 |
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| Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable |
AS 1141.6.1, RMS (NSW) Method T209 TfNSW TS 02799.08 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1, TfNSW TS 02799.02 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.12, RMS (NSW) Method T203 TfNSW TS 02799.04 |
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| 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, RMS (NSW) Methods T235, T275 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution |
AS 1141.24, TfNSW TS 02799.42 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Cohesion of compacted material | Unconfined | AS 1141.52 | |
| 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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| Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable |
AS 1141.21, RMS (NSW) Method T205 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt extraction and grading | Asphalts | Bitumen content and aggregate grading | Reflux |
AS/NZS 2891.3.1, TfNSW TS 02806.08 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt specimen manufacture | Asphalts | Specimen compaction; Specimen conditioning | Gyratory compaction; Handling and conditioning |
AS/NZS 2891.2.1, AS/NZS 2891.2.2 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt volumetric properties | Asphalts | Bulk density; Maximum density; Voids and density relationship | Mensuration; Methylated spirits displacement; Not applicable; Presaturation |
AS/NZS 2891.7.3, AS/NZS 2891.8, AS/NZS 2891.9.2, AS/NZS 2891.9.3, TfNSW TS 02806.06 |
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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, TfNSW TS 02800.02 |
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| 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, TfNSW TS 02800.16 |
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| Compressive strength | Cylinder |
AS 1012.9, RMS (NSW) Method T306 TfNSW TS 02800.07 |
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| Specimen preparation | Capping of compressive strength specimens |
TfNSW TS 02800.06 |
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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 | Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory |
AS 1012.8.1, TfNSW TS 02800.05 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Pavement shape | Road pavements | Surface deviation | Straight edge | TfNSW TS 02795.42 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Deflection monitoring |
TfNSW TS 02795.55 |
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| Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam |
TfNSW TS 02795.22 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1, TfNSW TS 02795.08 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.2 |
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| 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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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS1289.2.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.14 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109 TfNSW TS 02795.05 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.04 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |
| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1, RMS (NSW) Methods T111, T130 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.2.1, RMS (NSW) Method T112 TfNSW TS 02795.07 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point |
TfNSW TS 02795.24 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density - In situ | Sand-cone |
AS 1289.5.3.1 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
| Relative compaction | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T166 TfNSW TS 02795.28 |
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| Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1, TfNSW TS 02795.36 |
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| 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 |
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| Penetration - In situ | Perth sand penetrometer |
AS1289.6.3.3 |
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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, RMS (NSW) Methods T117, T132 |
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| 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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment |
TfNSW TS 02794.03 |
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| Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable; Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
AS 1289.1.1, TfNSW TS 02794.02,TfNSW TS 02795.01 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Stabiliser working time | Not applicable |
TfNSW TS 02797.04 |
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| Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
RMS (NSW) Methods T116, T131 |
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| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a conveyor belt; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck |
AS 1141.3.1 |
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| Not applicable | Quarry aggregate from a rock spall |
AS 1141.3.2, TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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| Asphalts | Not applicable | Uncompacted asphalt |
AS/NZS 2891.1.1 |
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| Not applicable | Extraction of an asphalt core - Wet technique |
AS 2891.1.2 |
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| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete |
AS 1012.1, RMS (NSW) Method T300 TfNSW TS 02800.01 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1 | ||
| Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile |
AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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Accreditation No.
16993
Site No.
18519
Print date
24 Aug 2026