National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Limited
Site
Whinstanes Laboratory – Boral Testing Services (Qld)
Accreditation No.
489
Site No.
482
Date of Accreditation
24 Oct 1964
Contact
Availability
Services conditionally 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 abrasion | Aggregates | Abrasion resistance | Resistance to wear by attrition | MR (Qld) Method Q229A | |
| Abrasion resistance | Ball mill | MR (Qld) Method Q228 | |||
| Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value |
AS 1141.23 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate binder adhesion | Aggregates | Degree of precoating |
MR (Qld) Method Q216 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt; Coarse aggregate quality; Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Light particles contaminants; Organic impurities; Sugar; Weak particles contaminants | Colour test; Fehlings solution; Manual classification; Segregation by density; Settling |
AS 1141.31; AS 1141.32; AS 1141.33; AS 1141.34; AS 1141.35; MR (Qld) Method Q477 |
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| 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 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 2 ?m; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.11.1; AS 1141.12; AS 1141.13 |
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| Shape | Average least dimension; Crushed faces; Flakiness; Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14; AS 1141.15; AS 1141.18; AS 1141.20.3; MR (Qld) Methods Q201 |
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| Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted |
AS 1141.4 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate reactivity | Aggregates | Alkali reactivity potential | Accelerated mortar bar | AS 1141.60.1 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on coarse aggregate; Degradation factor on fine aggregate; Degradation factor on source rock; Exposure to sodium sulfate solution |
AS 1141.24; AS 1141.25.1; AS 1141.25.2; AS 1141.25.3; MR (Qld) Method Q208B; |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value; Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable |
AS 1141.21; AS 1141.22; RMS (NSW) Method T215 TfNSW TS 02799.13 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar chemical tests | Concrete, grout and mortar | Chloride migration coefficient; Chloride penetration resistance | Electrical conductance; Nordtest method |
Nordtest Build NT 443; ASTM C1202 |
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| Chloride level in hardened concrete; Sulfate level in hardened concrete | Nitric acid; Water soluble |
AS 1012.20.1, AS 1012.20.2 |
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| Chloride penetration resistance | Nordtest method | Nordtest Method NT Build 492 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Stability of super workable concrete | MR (Qld) method Q478 | |
| Segregation; Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; T500 |
AS 1012.3.1; AS 1012.3.5 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar deformation | Concrete, grout and mortar | Modulus of elasticity | Poisson's ratio; Static chord modulus |
AS 1012.17 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar permeability | Concrete, grout and mortar | Permeability | Water retention | MR (Qld) Method Q479 | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In situ measurement using fixed volume measure |
AS 1012.5 |
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| Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder |
AS 1012.9; AS 1012.14 |
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| Bleeding | In situ analysis - Freshly mixed concrete | AS 1012.6 | |||
| Indirect tensile strength | Brazil | AS 1012.10 | |||
| 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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen conditioning; Specimen manufacture; Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; Curing flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; Curing grout and mortar cube specimens in the laboratory; Dry conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens; 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; In situ manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes; Moist curing drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens |
AS 1012.8.1; AS 1012.8.2; AS 1012.8.3; AS 1012.8.4; AS 1012.14 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Point load strength index | Laboratory measurement | AS 4133.4.1 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil chemical properties | Soils | Organic matter | Loss on ignition (LOI) | MR (Qld) Method Q120B | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Apparent particle density | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.5.1 | |
| Sieve analysis | Fines ratio; Gravimetric |
AS 1289.3.6.1; MR (Qld) Method Q103A; MR (Qld) Method Q253 |
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| Cone plasticity index; Linear shrinkage; Liquid limit; Plastic limit; Weighted plasticity index | Cone four point; Cone one point |
AS 1289.3.2.1; AS 1289.3.3.2; AS 1289.3.4.1; AS 1289.3.9.1; AS 1289.3.9.2; MR (Qld) Methods Q104A; Q104D; Q105; Q106; MR (Qld) Method Q252 |
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| Moisture content | Correlation; Drying oven; Microwave oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1; AS 1289.2.1.4 |
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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 |
AS 1289.5.1.1; AS 1289.5.2.1; MR (Qld) Method Q142A; Q142B |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class; Sand equivalent |
AS 1289.3.7.1; AS 1289.3.8.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1; MR (Qld) Methods Q113A; Q113B; Q113C |
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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; MR (Qld) Method Q101; MR (Qld) Method Q101A;MR (Qld) Method Q101B; MR (Qld) Method Q101D,Mr(Qld) Method Q101G, MR (Qld) Method Q101H, MR (Qld) Method Q101J, MR (Qld) Method Q255 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Sample preparation | Cement stabilisation; Lime stabilisation; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Field mix; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Laboratory mix | ||
| Sample preparation | Cement stabilisation; Lime stabilisation; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Field mix; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Laboratory mix | MR (Qld) Method Q135A; MR (Qld) Method Q251A; MR (Qld) Method Q251B | |||
| Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
MR (Qld) Method Q115 |
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| Stabiliser working time | Not applicable |
MR (Qld) Method Q136A |
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| Curing of moulded specimens | Lime, cement and bitumen |
MR (Qld) Methods Q135B |
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| Sample collection | Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete; Hardened concrete by coring |
AS 1012.1; AS 1012.14; ASTM C172 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
MR (Qld) Method Q050 |
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| Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling in situ |
AS 1289.1.2.1; MR (Qld) Method Q060 |
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Accreditation No.
489
Site No.
482
Print date
24 Aug 2026