Job Reports > Impact Hammers

Cockatoo Island
HWE Mining (Herny Walker Eltin) and Portman Mining
Marine & Civil
Cockatoo Island, Kimberley Coast

The BSP SL 30da hammers are designed to drive sheet piles and small bearing piles of concrete steel or timber.

Thyssenkrupp Steelcom has supplied Marine & Civil Construction Pty Ltd. the BSP SL30da 2.5t hammer to drive piles at its Cockatoo Island Project.

The BSP SL30da hammer with a max impact energy of 30 kJ and blow rate of 84bpm, performed really well. According to the project supervisor, Kim Lamont of Marine & Civil, “the drive times were about half of that of the air hammer”.

Fremantle Port upgrade
Thiess Construction
Austral Mining & Construction
Freemantle Wharf

BSP Hammer CX 110 hammer is suitable for driving:

• Steel sheet piles in pairs
• Steel tubular bearing piles
• Steel ‘H’ steel combi piles
• Reinforced concrete RIC piles
• Cast in situ CIS piles
• Timber piles

Austral’s wealth of experience in marine construction, expertise in wharves, jetties, marinas, boat ramps and mooring systems makes it the perfect choice for over-water piling projects.

Thiess Construction engaged Austral Construction in the Fremantle Port upgrade project. Austral utilized the BSP hydraulic hammer CX110 supplied by ThyssenKrupp Steelcom, to drive the test piles into the ocean bed for the extension of the Fremantle container wharf.

Houghton Highway Duplication Project
Hull/Albem
Brighton, Queensland

BSP Hammer CG180 12 tonne suitable for driving:

• Steel tubular bearing piles
• Steel ‘H’ piles
• Reinforced concrete RIC piles
• Cast in situ CIS piles

The Houghton Highway project involves construction of a new 2.7km bridge between Brisbane and Redcliffe. The new bridge will be located 35 m east of the existing Houghton Highway bridge and will feature three traffic lanes, a pedestrian / cycle path, and a dedicated fishing platform.

Marine & Civil
Pluto Materials Handling Facility
Dampier WA

Delmag D36-32 Diesel Pile Hammer.

DELMAG diesel pile hammers are single acting free fall hammers utilizing the principle of impact atomization.

Marine and Civil, specialists in the design & construct of marine related civil engineering and driven piled foundations required a suitable diesel hammer ranging from 8 - 18 tonnes to add to their existing fleet.

Harbour City Development
Curtain Brothers
Port Moresby, PNG
New berths on land reclaimed from the sea

Instead of dropping a heavy weight from a great height only once or twice a minute, the BSP rapid impact compactor (RIC) drops a lighter weight from a relatively low height at a rate of 40 to 60 times a minute.

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.