Here is the Center Pier Steel being crane lifted into position onto the Brigde Pier Starter Steel at Adelaide Northern Expressway Roadworks Project.. Adelaide Northern Expressway Center Pier Steel Cage The steel cage was pre-fabricated on site on top of … Continue reading
Northern Expressway Adelaide SA Starter steel for a 7.2 meter high concrete bridge pier which will support concrete bridge spans at Healslip Road Interchange Adelaide. Center Pier Starter Steel Formwork will be used to box the column just as soon … Continue reading
Location: Port Adelaide South Australia This is the formwork which will be used to cast the bridge bearings into position on top of the concrete columns. Silicon sealer was used to completely seal the formwork in order to stop any … Continue reading
Location: Port Adelaide South Australia Here’s Joe surveying the exact locations of the bridge bearings which will be cast on top of the concrete bridge columns at Port River Expressway roadworks project. Joe at Port River Expressway Because the bridge … 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: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia Here is the concrete bridge columns resulting from the use of this column formwork. The bridge will eventually span accross one railway track and one busy main road. Concrete Bridge Columns Formworkers … 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
Structural Bearings – Bridge Bearings – Also known as bearer pads or bearing pads. Structural Bearing – Bridge Bearing Bridge Bearings go inbetween the structure and the bridge span. For example, Bearing Pads can be fixed onto abutments, bridge columns … Continue reading
Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia Concrete pump operator places the concrete into these bridge column forms, the concretor vibrates while the formwork carpenter stands by to secure the Bearer Pad Template. Pumping Concrete into Bridge Column Formwork … 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