National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Terra Firma Laboratories
Site
Perth Facility
Accreditation No.
15357
Site No.
21889
Date of Accreditation
14 Nov 2013
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 | MRWA Method WA220.2 | |
Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value | AS 1141.23, MRWA Method WA220.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |
Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison | AS 1141.30.1 | |||
Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle density of coarse aggregate; Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5, AS 1141.6.1 | |
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1; MRWA Method WA210.1 | |||
Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14 | |||
Particle size distribution | Particle size distribution of rock | In-House test method | |||
Bulk density | Compacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Shape | Flakiness | AS 1141.15 MRWA Method WA216.1 | |||
Shape | Rock shape | In-House test method | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12 | |||
Bulk density | Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 In-House test method | |||
Shape | Average least dimension | AS 1141.20.1 AS 1141.20.2 MRWA Method WA215.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution | AS 1141.24 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 | |
Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable | AS 1141.21 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; T500 | AS 1012.3.1 AS 1012.3.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar permeability | Concrete, grout and mortar | Permeability | Volume change with water absorption - Permeable voids | AS 1012.21 | |
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 | |
Compressive strength | Cube | AS 1012.9 | |||
Compressive strength | Cylinder | AS 1012.9 | |||
Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Air volume | AS 1012.4.2 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 | |||
Bleeding | In situ analysis - Freshly mixed concrete | AS 1012.6 | |||
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 and curing | Manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.4 | |
Specimen manufacture and curing | Manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.3 | |||
Specimen conditioning | Dry conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.14 | |||
Specimen manufacture and curing | Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 4133.1.1 | |
Point load strength index | Laboratory measurement | AS 4133.4.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil chemical properties | Soils | Calcium carbonate content | Not applicable | MRWA Method WA915.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Description, identification and classification | Not applicable | AS 1726 Tables 9 and 10 (Laboratory classification elements only) | |
Liquid limit | Cone one point | AS 1289.3.9.2 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande four point | AS 1289.3.1.1 MRWA Method WA120.1 | |||
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 MRWA Method WA122.1 | |||
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 MRWA Method WA121.1 | |||
Plasticity index | Cone | AS 1289.3.3.2 MRWA Method WA122.1 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.2 | |||
Liquid limit | Cone four point | AS 1289.3.9.1 MRWA Method WA120.2 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 MRWA Method WA115.1 MRWA Method WA115.2 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 MRWA Method WA123.1 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 MRWA Method WA110.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1 MRWA Method WA133.1 MRWA Method WA133.2 | |
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 MRWA Method WA132.1 MRWA Method WA132.2 | |||
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 - In situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 MRWA Method WA324.2 | |
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Moisture ratio | Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
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 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1, MRWA Method WA141.1 | |
Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | MRWA Method WA140.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1 MRWA Method WA105.1 | |
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 MRWA Method WA200.1 | |
Not applicable | Quarry aggregate from a rock spall; Quarry aggregate from boulders | In-House test method | |||
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 face; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling from a windrow; Disturbed soil sampling in situ | AS 1289.1.2.1 MRWA Method WA100.1 | ||
Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1 AS 1289.1.4.2 MRWA Method WA0.1 |
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 | Gwalia TSF3 Embankment Raise Annex Facility, Site No 26878 is established from 09 September 2024 until 09 February 2025 for Gwalia TSF3 Embankment Raise. Contract No: 3DEM02092024. Contractor: 3D Earthmoving |
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 | Kathleen Valley Annex Facility, Site No 26140, is established from 23 November 2022 until 30 November 2024 for Kathleen Valley Micropile concrete works, contract Jag-Kathleen-2023 |
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 | Norseman Gold Project - TSF 4 Stage 4 Raise Annex Facility, Site No is established from 23/09/2024 until 23/12/2024 for Norseman Gold Project - TSF 4 Stage 4 Raise. Contract No: QW328/072024-YW. Contractor: TailCon Projects. |
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 | Onslow Annex Facility, Site No 26161 is established from 20 December 2022 until 20 DECEMBER 2024 for Ashburton Iron Ore Project works for WA Limestone, Contract 664041598E52 |
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Accreditation No.
15357
Site No.
21889
Print date
29 Nov 2024