Location: Gold Coast Australia While doing formwork on the Gold Coast, I was staying at some beach-front apartments in Surfers Paradise which had a pretty good view of the beach and surrounding buildings. Sometimes clouds would surround the Q1 apartment … 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: Tugun Bypass Project Queensland Australia This little formwork job was made quick and easy because there was plenty of Blinding to place the concrete forms and to brace off. The supervisor on this job asked how much Blinding we … Continue reading
Location: Surfers Paradise Gold Coast Australia While I was briefly associated with the Formwork Company at the Circle on Cavil high-rise construction site, the project was visible from the apartment building where I was staying. It took seven minutes to … Continue reading
Location: Surfers Paradise – Gold Coast Australia When doing formwork construction on the Gold Coast, I stay at my favorite beach front apartment building so that I can enjoy the fresh sea air and excellent views of the beach Surfers … Continue reading
Location: Tugun Bypass Project Queensland Australia This bridge spanning across four lanes of traffic had to be constructed at the expense of the road building company so that a private land owner can enter and exit from his property at … Continue reading
Location: A Surfers Paradise High-Rise Construction Site, Gold Coast Australia A Formworker built this work platform on top of a dodgy Guardrail around a Crane Base Penetration in order to do some Stripping and Back-Propping. Obviously he does not have … Continue reading
Location: A Surfers Paradise High-Rise Construction Site, Gold Coast Australia After reading about a killed worker as a result of being buried under wet concrete after a suspended slab collapsed, I wondered if some of us are too relaxed with … Continue reading