Chadwick Geotechnics operates NATA accredited testing laboratories, providing services to the geotechnical and civil engineering sector. Our corporate accreditation with NATA allows us to rapidly establish facilities on remote or significant projects. 

We are registered as approved suppliers with VicRoads, Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) and The Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR) in the fields of Geotechnical and testing and general laboratory and field services. 

Key features of testing available at our laboratories:

• California bearing ratio 
• Particle size distribution 
• Atterberg limits 
• Standard compaction 
• Modified compaction 
• Nuclear density  

• Thermal resistivity testing 
• Permeability – falling head, constant head and flexible wall 
• Total and effective stress testing 
• Point load index testing 
• Oedometer consolidation testing 
• Shrink swell testing 

• Set-up and maintenance of a quality testing regime to assist the quarry industry  
• Degradation tests 
• Strength/crushing tests 
• Index tests 
• Foreign materials 
• Flakiness  
• Unsound stone