Pins and wedges are often used to secure many types of timber formwork in order to prevent concrete blow out while at the same time define a nice straight “edge of concrete” line. Pins and Wedges used to secure Formwork … Continue reading
Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia After each column concrete pour, the column formwork gets stripped down to be cleaned with high pressure water blasting and grinding with a wire wheel to remove all the slurry. Cleaning Column … Continue reading
Location: Turner River Rail Bridge Mining Construction Site Pilbara Region, WA The formwork used for the first concrete pour of this concrete bridge abutment. Formworker Getting Ready to Concrete this Abutment Formwork The red “spreader timbers” were also used to … Continue reading
Location: A Surfers Paradise High-Rise Construction Site, Gold Coast Australia There is nothing more disappointing than stripping the formwork from columns or walls and discovering that there is absolutely no cover from the edge of the concrete to the reinforcement … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Location: Project Magnet – Iron Duke Mining Construction Site Whyalla South Australia Thrust Block Formwork being constructed around slurry and water pipes. Thrust Block Formwork Timber scaffolding was used for access and work platform for inspectors, supervisors, concretors and formworkers. … Continue reading
Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia Four concrete forms held together with Column-Clamps and held down with spaghetti nailed plywood. The 700 mm long bolts took a bit of work to cast in due to the extra reinforcement … Continue reading
Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia Arial view of formwork for bridge columns. The concrete forms have been braced with concrete counter-weights and scaffolding has been errected in order to provide access for construction workers to complete the … Continue reading
Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia This four tread stair formwork is held together with 4 z-bar bolts, held down with pins at the front and wedges (to the structure) at the back, and braced with one timber … Continue reading
Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia – Weigh Bridge Section Timber used to brace internal sump formwork at Prominent Hill weigh bridge. Sump Formwork with Ladder You’ll notice that one of the center timbers is not used to … Continue reading