National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Construction Sciences Pty Ltd
Site
Warabrook Laboratory
Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
16822
Date of Accreditation
01 Dec 2016
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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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification |
RMS (NSW) Method T276 |
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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 | Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water |
AS 1141.6.1 RMS (NSW) Method T209 |
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| Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12, AS 1141.19 RMS (NSW) Method T201, RMS (NSW) Method T203 |
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| Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water |
AS 1141.5 RMS (NSW) Method T210 |
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| Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable |
AS 1141.6.1 RMS (NSW) Method T209 |
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| Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable |
AS 1141.5 RMS (NSW) Method T210 |
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| Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted |
AS 1141.4 |
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| Shape | Average least dimension; Flakiness; Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2 RMS (NSW) Method T213, RMS (NSW) Method T235, RMS (NSW) Method T239, RMS (NSW) Method T275 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable |
AS 1141.21 |
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| Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable |
AS 1141.22 |
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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 RMS (NSW) Method T301 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder |
AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14 RMS (NSW) Method T305, RMS (NSW) Method T306, RMS (NSW) Method T310 |
AS 1012.14 except clause 6.2 |
| Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture |
AS 1012.11 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement |
AS 1012.12.1, AS 1012.12.2 RMS (NSW) Method T316, RMS (NSW) Method T317 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In-situ measurement using fixed volume measure |
AS 1012.5 |
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| Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure |
AS 1012.4.2 |
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| Uniformity of mixing | Not applicable | AS 1379 Appendix A | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | In-situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical 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 1012.8.4 RMS (NSW) Method T304 |
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| Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens |
AS 1012.14 |
Except Clause 6.2 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam; Deflection monitoring |
RMS (NSW) Method T160, RMS (NSW) Method T199;TfNSW T199; |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1 RMS (NSW) Method T113;TfNSW T113; |
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| Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1 RMS (NSW) Method T106;TfNSW T106; |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2 RMS (NSW) Method T108;TfNSW T108;TfNSW T105; |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1 RMS (NSW) Method T120 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande; Cone |
AS 1289.3.3.1 RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105; |
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| Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T107;TfNSW T107; |
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| Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1 RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105; |
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| Particle density | Not applicable |
AS 1289 3.5.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point |
AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1 RMS (NSW) Method T111, RMS (NSW) Method T112, RMS (NSW) Method T130, RMS (Method) T162 |
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| Maximum dry density | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T164 |
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| Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.5.1 RMS (NSW) Method T164 |
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| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class |
AS 1289.3.8.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge; Sand-cone |
AS 1289.5.3.1, AS 1289.5.8.1 RMS (NSW) Method T119, RMS (NSW) Method T173 |
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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 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Relative compaction | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T166 |
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| 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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry |
RMS (NSW) Method T114, RMS (NSW) Method T116, RMS (NSW) Method T131 |
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| Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 RMS (NSW) Method T102;TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) T103;TfNSW T103;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) Method T105 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell |
AS 1289.7.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
AS 5101.4 |
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| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile |
AS 1141.3.1 |
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| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer |
AS 1012.1 RMS (NSW) Method T300 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; 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 |
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Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
16822
Print date
20 Jan 2022