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
Location: Project Magnet – Iron Duke Mining Construction Site Whyalla South Australia Thrust Block Formwork being constructed around slurry and water pipes. Thrust Block Formwork Timber scaffolding was used for access and work platform for inspectors, supervisors, concretors and formworkers. … Continue reading
Location: Project Magnet – Iron Duke Mining Construction Site Whyalla South Australia From where I was standing, it looked like the end of the rainbow was at the Iron Duke Crusher. End of the Rainbow at Iron Duke Crusher For … Continue reading
Location: Francis Street Port Adelaide South Australia While doing bridge formwork at Port Adelaide, I was surprised to see so many trucks with either uncovered and/or unsecured loads driving down the street. It became normal to see some kind of … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia Formworkers Ed and Rami at Prominent Hill Mine. 99% of the formwork construction jobs are now complete so Ed and Rami will fly-out today. A couple of formwork carpenters remain to do … Continue reading
Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia Arial view of formwork for bridge columns. The concrete forms have been braced with concrete counter-weights and scaffolding has been errected in order to provide access for construction workers to complete the … Continue reading
Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia This four tread stair formwork is held together with 4 z-bar bolts, held down with pins at the front and wedges (to the structure) at the back, and braced with one timber … Continue reading