Location: Port Adelaide South Australia Normally, when the red light is flashing and the safety boom is down at a railway crossing, the intention is that drivers wait until the train passes, the safety boom raises and the lights stop … Continue reading
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 … 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: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia – Weigh Bridge Section While the sump with ladder formwork was a pain in the neck to construct due to the fiddly ladder treads, it is always good to see that the … 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: Project Magnet – Iron Duke Mining Construction Site South Australia Earthmovers and excavator operators Naomi and Des Dunstall getting ready to dig yet another pedestal foundation hole at the Iron Duke. Naomi and Des Dunstall at Iron Duke Mine … Continue reading
Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia Concrete poured into four tread stair formwork and the formwork has just been stripped by the formworkers. It looks like these stairs might need to be patched up in order to fill … 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 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 … 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