Job Reports > Vibro Hammers > Kooragang Island, Newcastle

Kooragang Island, Newcastle
New South Wales
KCET Inbound Structures

ABI HVR 75 Hydraulic vibrators are the most widely used equipment for driving and extracting sheet piles, casings and profiles with excellent performance and precision.

Abigroup Limited- one of Australia’s major engineering and building construction, civil contractors with the largest earthmoving fleet of any contractor in Australia - has commissioned ThyssenKrupp Steelcom for the use of the ABI HVR75 excavator mounted vibro hammer to drive 8.5m sheetpiles.

ThyssenKrupp Steelcom also provided to this project corner sections (Wall-Profile Omega 12) that were 11.8 m in length and 2 x 11.8 corner sections of 23.6 l/m. These wall profiles are suitable for connecting sheet pile walls erected from different directions.

Steve Cruwys, Abigroup Contractors Project Engineer was very impressed, they were successfully driving 8.5m LX20 sheetpiles, toeing into 1m of very dense sand. Driving 25 sheets per day was more than he forecasted.

Mounted onto a Komatsu PC450 excavator, the HVR-75 enabled the contractor get more work out of less equipment by utilizing a machine that is already on the job site rather than having to bring in another piece of machinery.

Additional advantages of the ABI HVR75 are: short start and stopping times, high revolutions, low noise level, low weight, high centrifugal forces and low design height.

ThyssenKrupp Steelcom offers total piling solutions including hire and sell of steel sheet piles, impact and vibratory piling hammers ranging from excavator mounted to large crane suspended units, as well as, foundation equipment.

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