National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
QualTech (Tas) 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 contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt; Organic impurities | Colour test; Settling |
AS 1141.33 AS 1141.34 |
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| Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison |
AS 1141.30.1; RC (Vic) Method 372.01 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5 | |
| Shape | Average least dimension |
AS 1141.20.1 AS 1141.20.2 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1 |
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| Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
| Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
| Shape | Flakiness |
AS 1141.15 |
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| Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
| Shape | Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on coarse aggregate; Degradation factor on fine aggregate |
AS 1141.25.2; AS 1141.25.3 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1 |
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| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 |
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| Sieve analysis |
AS 1289.3.6.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.2.1 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1 |
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| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 In-house Method #9 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil electrical properties | Soils | Electrical resistance | Not applicable |
AS 1289.4.4.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density - In situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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| Moisture ratio | Measured |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
| Characteristic field density values; Moisture ratio assessment of dry back |
RC (Vic) Methods 316.00, 316.14 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell | RC (Vic) Method 324.01 | |
| Bearing ratio | Undisturbed samples |
AS 12889.6.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil natural contaminants | Soils | Acidity | pH |
AS 1289.4.3.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 |
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| Sample collection | Aggregates; Soils | Not applicable | Aggregate from a bin; Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a windrow; Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement |
AS 1141.3.1 AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
RC (Vic) Method 316.10 |
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Accreditation No.
4044
Site No.
4037
Print date
24 Aug 2026