Job Reports

Sheet Pile

Sale
Victoria
VIC Roads

Larssen L755 Sheet piles were supplied to VIC Roads for their project in Sale Victoria.

Newcastle
New South Wales
EnergyAustralia Stadium, earthworks for grandstand concourse

Sheet piles were installed to provide support for ramps and proposed excavations associated with the grandstand construction.

Newcastle
New South Wales
Onesteel Wire Ropeworks, foundation excavation

Foundations were excavated to a maximum depth of 5 metres to accommodate a new wire rope closing machine. In total, approximately 170 sheet piles were driven to a depth of up to 12 metres.

Melville Island
Tiwi Islands
Wharf construction

A large component of the completed first stage of Port Melville is constructed of sheet pile. LX12, LX16, LX25, LX20, LX25 and LX32 was supplied by Steelcom Pty Ltd and an on -site facility was established to weld 12 and 16 metre piles to achieve the required 18 metre lengths.

Holdfast Shores
Glenelg South Australia
60 Berth Boat Basin

This involved the construction of a 60 berth boat basin for which Steelcom supplied LX32 sheet pile to form a hard vertical face.

Wentworth
Victoria
Levee Bank Rehabilitation

The contractor inserted sheet pile into the core of the levee bank, thereby taking advantage of the piles’ inherent water resistant capacity and reducing disruption to a nearby golf course.

Darling Point
Sydney
Residential Excavation Shoring

Austral were contracted by Mainland Civil to supply and drive approximately 2800m2 of 5m to 12m sheet piles.

Rose Bay
Sydney
Circular Overflow Tank

New LX16 sheets in 12 metre lengths were supplied from stock and used to create a water-resistant circular structure.

Vibro Hammers

Cronulla
New South Wales
Sea wall remediation.

The project presents a number of significant project management challenges including difficult site access, public access management, environmental impacts from storms / tidal activity and onstantly shifting sands.

Mayfield (Newcastle)
New South Wales
Construction of a new seawall to replace old one

Steelcom has recently supplied Emanon the Müller Excavator Mounted Vibrator (MS-7 HFBS) for application on its current BHP Remediation project in Mayfield (Newcastle) NSW.

Wollongong
New South Wales
Port Kembla Berth 6 wharf construction

Steelcom have introduced the largest vibro-driver currently available in Australia to the Port Kembla development project.

Coffs Harbour
Northern New South Wales
Deep sea release, cofferdam construction

Barclay Mowlem Candac used two PTC vibratory hammers throughout this project – their own 25H2 and Steelcom’s new 30H1.

Groote Eylandt
600km east of Darwin
Barge wharf extension

Sheet pile was the major construction material. Contractor used standard frequency PTC 30HI hammer with vibratory power of 193kw to drive over 90 LX25 sheet piles 11.8m in length supplied ex stock by Steelcom.

Raymond Terrace
New South Wales
Abutment Reinforcement

Contractor Civilbuild is seen here using our 15HF3 to drive 8 metre LX16 sheet pile into stiff clay for an abutment reinforcement.

Newcastle
New South Wales
Ferry Wharf Construction

Contractor Newcastle Wharf and Jetty Repairs used our 50HL hammer to drive 21.7 metre long steel tubes that were 900mm diameter with a wall thickness of 16mm.

Auckland
New Zealand
Wharf Construction

Fletcher Construction used Steelcom’s 50HL hammer in the construction of wharves at Marsden Point, 150km north of Auckland.

Cantebury
New Zealand
Foundation Construction

For this ICT project, pile foundation columns were created and the PTC30H1 Vibro Hammer was used to drive 900mm dia casing down 15m.

Impact Hammers

Port of Brisbane
Queensland
Wharf Project

ThyssenKrupp Steelcom is pleased to supply Smithbridge Australia the BSP 14t HH1146 hydraulic impact hammer. Port of Brisbane engaged Smithbridge who are specialist in the design and building of bridge and marine structures among others, in their Brisbane wharf project.

Perth Arena
Wellington St. Perth WA
Perth Arena Project

Piletech Australia has used Steelcom’s BSP SL20da Hammer in the $335M Perth Arena project.

The BSP SL20da, a 1.5 tone double acting hydraulic hammer is designed to drive single sheet piles and small bearing piles of concrete, steel and timber with a maximum impact weight of 1,850m.kg.

Brisbane Wharf
Queensland
Wharf extension

Albem Pty Ltd is using Steelcom’s HH1146 drop hammer in 14 tonne configuration to drive over 300 piles ranging in size from 900mm to 1200mm in diameter and up to 50m in length.

Australian Marine Complex
Jervoise Bay, Western Australia
Wharf Construction

Steelcom provided the venture with a BSP HH14, 14 tonne ram weight piling-hammer for wharf construction.

Dalrymple Bay
Mackay, Queensland
Wharf Extension

Clough utilised two BSP hydraulic piling hammers supplied by Steelcom. The 357-9 Series hammer was used in 9 tonne capacity and the HH1146 Series hammer, designed to meet the trend of larger, more heavily loaded piles, was used in 14 tonne capacity.

Pile Breakers

Cairns
Queensland
Esplanade

Taets Pile Breakers were used to make easy work of the cast in-situ concrete piles of the box drain and swimming pool. A Type 314 circular pile breaker with infill links was used to break both the 400mm and 600mm diameter piles.

Gold Coast
Queensland
Chevron Re-development

Rapcivic were attracted to the speed and low noise operation of hydraulic pile breakers given the dense city location of the development. The Type 380 is the largest hydraulic pile breaker available, capable of breaking circular piles from 600mm to 1800mm in diameter.