Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia

All the access scaffolding is now complete on this bridge column formwork. We are not quite ready for concrete yet because city council inspectors must give the okay first.

Column Formwork Almost Ready for Concrete

City Council inspectors will climb up the access scaffolding and make sure that the column forms and reinforcement steel inside the concrete forms are positioned according to the specifications on the plan. In most cases, the inspector will give it the go-ahead.

In my experience, the only times an inspector does not approve a concrete pour is when some formworker did not do what they knew had to be done. These formworkers hope that the inspector does not see that bit of steel too close to the concrete form, or that bar-chair that fell down to the bottom.

Or worse, sometimes a supervisor will instruct a formworker “not to worry about it”, then after the inspector picks it, they rush around like a freaking idiot trying to get it fixed

See the arial view of this formwork.