Job Reports

Sheet Pile

Sugarloaf Pipeline
Sugarloaf Pipeline Alliance*
Wagstaff & Vibropile
Yea, Victoria

* The Alliance is a joint venture between John Holland and Melbourne Water.
The design team comprised of GHD and SKM.

Larssen L755 Steel Sheet Piles. U shaped sheet pile sections are well proven in both permanent and temporary works throughout the world.

Thyssenkrupp Steelcom has supplied 828m² of the Larssen L755 sheet pile in 2000 cm /m section modulus to Sugarloaf Pipeline Alliance for their Sugarloaf Pipeline project in Yea, 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.

Sale
Victoria
VIC Roads

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

Vibro Hammers

New Zealand Refining Company
Marsden Point Facility, New Zealand
GHK Piling

The PTC 120HD offers a massive eccentric moment of 120kgm and centrifugal force of 2550kN.

GHK Piling 2000 limited, a Whangarei based pilingand Bridge building company, were approached by the New Zealand Refining Company to construct a new jetty at their Marsden point facility.

GHK Piling formed a partnership with their sister company and Stainless Steel Project and Tauranga based Tom French Industries. For the driving of the three 2.400mtr 16mm forty meter long piles which were installed in three sections, GHK Piling approached ThyssenKrupp Steelcom NZ manager Andy Fenn, with the help of his Australian counterparts recommended using the PTC120HD Vibro hammer. Brendon Hayward, GHK’s Project Manager said the power of this machine proved itself through some trying ground conditions encountered during the installation of these piles.

Geelong Ports
North Geelong Victoria
McConnell Dowell
with KV Johnson Construction

MÜLLER-vibrators. HFV series with variable frequency and amplitude and resonance-free starting and stopping.

Geelong Port is the largest regional port in Victoria and continues to experience stable trade growth.

McConnell Dowell, a world-class Australian based engineering, construction, building and maintenance company was the main contractor for the project.ThyssenKrupp Steelcom supplied the subcontrator KV Johnson, a Muller MS-24 HFV to be used at the Corio Quay in Geelong Port VIC. The requirements for the vibro hammer was to drive dolphin piles which utilized single jaw MS180 (180tonne clamppressure) weighing 1250kg and and double jawsMS100 (100 tonne per clamp) at 750kg each.

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.

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

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.

Pile Breakers

Kooragang Island
Abigroup Pty. Ltd.
Goldsmith
Kooragang Island, Newcastle

TAETS 380 Pile Breakers - Circular pile breaker (Full link)
Pile breakers dramatically increase productivity and safety when compared to conventional jack-hammer breaking.

Thyssenkrupp Steelcom has supplied Abigroup the TAETS Type 380 required for the breaking of up to 400 concrete piles at the Kooragang Island project, some of which have a strength of 50 MPa and 10 reinforcement bars. The concrete piles ranged from 600mm to 900mm in diameter.

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.

Tie Bars

Burrup
190km north-west of Karratha, WA
Pluto LNG Project

The Pluto LNG (liquified natural gas) project is set to become the fastest developed LNG project to the production of first gas in late 2010.