National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Pearce Geotech Pty Ltd
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 | AS 1141.23 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | 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 | |
Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 | |||
Shape | Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15 | |||
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 - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |
Bleeding | In situ analysis - Freshly mixed concrete | AS 1012.6 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 | |||
Compressive strength | Cylinder | AS 1012.9 | |||
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; Curing flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; 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 | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.4 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Liquid limit | Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1, 3.1.2 | |
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |||
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 | |||
Weighted plasticity index | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 326.01 | |||
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD); Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1 | |||
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1 | |||
Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1 | |||
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 | Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |
AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||||
Density - In situ; Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |||
Characteristic field density values | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 316.00 | |||
Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 316.14 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in situ | Perth sand penetrometer | AS 1289.6.3.3 | |
Penetration depth | Ball embedment | Austroads Method AGPT/T251 | |||
Penetration in situ | Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ strength | Soils | Bearing strength - In situ | Plate bearing | DIN 18134 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 | |
Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell | RC (Vic) Method 301.04, RC (Vic) Method 324.01 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil natural contaminants | Soils | Acidity | pH | AS 1289.4.3.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil permeability | Soils | Permeability | Constant head for a remoulded specimen | AS 1289.6.7.1 | |
Permeability | Falling head for a remoulded specimen | AS 1289.6.7.2 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment | RC (Vic) Method 301.05 | |
Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1 RC (Vic) Method 301.01 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Lime saturation point | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 131.01 | |
Cementitious binder and granular additive content; Compressive strength; Density decay correction factor for granular materials | Uniaxial unconfined | AS 5101.4, RC (Vic) Method 330.02, RC (Vic) Method 330.03 | |||
Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Lime stabilisation | RC (Vic) Method 301.03 | |||
Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Cement | RC (Vic) Method 301.06 | |||
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a conveyor belt; Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 | ||
Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile | AS 1289.1.2.1 | ||
Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1, 1.4.2 RC (Vic) Method 316.10 |
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 K92 Annex Facility, Site No. 26625 is acknowledged from 15 April 2024 until 15 January 2025 for the Kainantu Gold Mine Earthworks project for K92 Mining. Contract No. PEA001AUD. |
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Accreditation No.
18877
Site No.
21076
Print date
07 Dec 2024