| The existing Lake Raeside Bridge located on the Great
Eastern Highway, near Leonora, in Western Australia was
a single span bridge, which was subject to flooding and
consequently deemed not fit for its purpose.
The commencement of construction of the new 5 span bridge
started in September 2008 and was completed in May 2009.
Its design is the concrete pier and abutments style of
bridge construction, with an insitu concrete deck poured
on top of structural steel beams.
Due to the remote nature of this project Formaction
Concrete Civils required a company that could provide
all of the formwork and scaffolding solutions and that
is why they decided to use RMD Australia.
The most significant aspect of the
project was the soffit system used for the insitu concrete
deck pours. The Web
Tie and Paraslim systems provided a solution that was
not reliant upon traditional shoring methods erected
from the ground. The system also provided a quick strip
option via lowering the soffit in sectionalised tables
to the ground. NB: please obtain further details about
these products by clicking on Web Tie or Paraslim.
RMD also provided the side forms for the pier footings,
abutments, headstocks and bridge forms utilising Super
Slim Soldiers, Alform Beam, LVL Timber and ply.
The circular columns were formed utilising RMD SuperTube
Plus sacrificial column forms. Temporary support to the
structural steel beams was provided during construction
by utilising the Rapidshor shoring system in a 3m x 1.8m
grid.
Other projects that RMD Australia have worked on with
Formaction Concrete Civils are:
- Port Hedland RGP4 Expansion Project – June
07
-
Higginsville Project – October 07
- Windimurra Project – March 08
- Mermaid Marine
Karratha expansion Project Stage 2 and Stage 3 – March
09 and October 09
-
Utah Point Stockyard Project – November 09
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