Adelaide Northern Expressway Center Pier Steel Cage

The steel cage was pre-fabricated on site on top of the same formwork shuttering which will be used to form-up this 6 meter tall structure.

Construction Workers To Feed The Steel Cage Into The Base

Formworkers, steelfixers, riggers and supervisors work together feeding the cage into the base making sure that every steel bar in the cage is in the correct position in relation to the starter base steel.

Steel Cage Fixed Into Position

After the steel cage is fixed into position, the structure is ready to be enclosed by formwork shuttering. The finished concrete structure will be a narrow 600mm at the bottom and 1500mm at the top.

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 as the rest of the steel is lifted into position by crane. This center pier will be 13m long, 600mm wide at the bottom and 1500mm wide at the top.