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When I arrived at Construction Camp 123 Cape Preston Western Australia, I was wandering who would be the first person I would bump into that I already know from another job. Well, it was formwork carpenter Rami who I first met at Prominent Hill SA a couple of years ago.

Ed and Rami at Cape Preston WA

Good to see ya mate

Location: Port Adelaide SA

Instead of the regular workplace BBQ lunch on a Saturday, why not try out a workplace Lamb On A Spit like we did here at this construction site in Port Adelaide. The site is being used by Adelaide Aqua to prefabricate pre-cast concrete and large steel piles for the Port Stanvac Desalination Project.

Lamb On A Spit

We had seasoned Lamb-On-A-Spit Professional Branko on the team who prepared, cooked and carved the lamb to perfection.

Branko, Graham and Goran

Branko’s delicious roasting lamb smell wafted over the whole construction site, enticing most of the construction workers over to have a great tasting lunch before hooking back into work. After most of the site ate, there was plenty left over for hot lamb sandwiches the next day.

Daniel, Dave and Branko Carving The Lamb

I voted 10 out of 10 for Branko’s Lamb On A Spit as did everyone else who tried it.

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia

Mechanical Fitter Leigh (Hollywood) giving Admin LJ a few welding tips.

Leigh and LJ at Prominent Hill Mine

Location: Port Adelaide South Australia

After constructing this bridge abutment formwork at the Port River Expressway, formwork carpenters Steve, Simon and Tony now have to place and finish the concrete as well.

Formworkers Steve, Simon and Tony

Steel bridge spans will now placed from these abutments to the concrete columns.

Location: Tugun Bypass Project Gold Coast Australia

Tugan Bypass Boys Mark and Terrence take shelter under a bridge on a rainy morning. Mark and Terrence have been doing the concrete and formwork at this crash barrier foundation.

Mark and Terrence at Tugun Bypass Project

Location: Prominent Hill Construction Site and Camp

A nice collection of Prominent Hill photos by Zane Swart. This collection contains 506 photos of around the Prominent Hill Mine job, and other fun after work hours stuff. Start Slideshow

Zane and Yabbie at Prominent Hill

View Zane’s Prominent Hill photo collection.

Shane Chooking Yabbies

Thanks for that Zane

Video of a concretor finishing a concrete slab with a ride-on concrete troweling machine.

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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

Once the concrete is pumped almost to the top, a formwork carpenter secures the Bearer Pad Template on top of the column forms. The concrete is then topped up.

Concretor Vibrating Concrete

Due to space restrictions, the Bearer Pad Template was made strong enough to stand on so that the concretors could hand-trowel the entire surface without stepping on the concrete.

Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia

Formwork carpenter Ray goes inside these bridge column concrete forms to ensure that the reinforcement steel has the correct cover by positioning small concrete blocks (aspros) in between the formwork and the reinforcement steel.

Formworker Ray at the Port River Expressway Job

Example of no cover on a Gold Coast high-rise apartment building.

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 steel positioned exactly in the center of the pedestal.

Pedestal Formwork Ready For Concrete

This job was not as bad as the nightmare pedestal, but still took extra time because the formworkers had to reposition the steel in order to fit the bolts in.

Concretors Anthony and Nev Vibrating Pedestal Concrete

To ensure the correct heights, the concrete and bolt-top heights were established from a known benchmark with a Laser Level instrument and not by just measuring up from the foundation concrete.