
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Anacon Laboratory Services
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
| Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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  | |
| Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34  | |||
| Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32  | |||
| Sugar | Fehlings solution | AS 1141.35  | |||
| Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison | AS 1141.30.1 RC (Vic) Method 372.01  | |||
| Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | RC (Vic) Method 372.04  | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1  | |
| Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5  | |||
| Shape | Average least dimension; Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.3  | |||
| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12  | |||
| Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1  | |||
| Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5  | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on fine aggregate |  AS 1141.25.3 RC (Vic) Method 370.05  | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Cement content | Heat of neutralisation | AS 5101.3.3  | |
| Unconfined compressive strength | AS 5101.4  | ||||
| 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 | Maturity | Estimation of concrete strength | ASTM C1074  | |
| Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11  | |||
| Indirect tensile strength | Brazil | AS 1012.10  | |||
| Mass per unit volume - Packaged concrete mix | Fixed volume measure | AS 3648 Appendix B2  | |||
| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1  | |||
| Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14 (clause 6.5)  | |||
| Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5  | |||
| Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2  | |||
| 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 conditioning | Dry conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.14  | |
| Specimen manufacture | Mixing concrete in the laboratory | AS 1012.2  | |||
| Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing grout and mortar cube 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; 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 | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.3, AS 1012.8.4, AS 1012.13  | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1  | |
| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point | AS 1289.3.1.1  | |||
| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1  | |||
| Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1  | |||
| Moisture content | Correlation; Drying oven; Hot plate | AS 1289.2.1.1, AS 1289.2.1.6, AS 1289.2.3.1  | |||
| Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1  | |||
| 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 pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1  | |
| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a bin; Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1  | |
| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete | AS 1012.1  | ||
| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile | AS 1289.1.2.1  | 
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Materials
| Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis of cements and cementitious materials - Properties | Cement products | Setting time | Not applicable | AS 2350.4  | |
| Consistency | Normal consistency | AS 2350.3  | |||
| Soundness | Not applicable | AS 2350.5  | 
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Accreditation No.
1235
Site No.
1228
Print date
03 Nov 2025