Crown lays Sydney foundations

InfraBuild has played a key role in the early stages of what will be a landmark Sydney construction. Foundation work has just finished on a project that will significantly alter Sydney’s skyline once complete. The Crown Sydney project at Barangaroo on the western edge of Sydney’s CBD will stand 75 storeys tall when it is…

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ATO Box Hill

Built and developed by Grocon, ATO Box Hill, a 13-storey 19,000 sqm office tower, includes 690 sqm of retail space and boasts a 5 Star Green Star® rating and 5 Star NABERS ratings, a first for Box Hill. Key to the faster, safer and more efficient construction of the building was BARMAT® – an innovative InfraBuild Construction Solutions’ product that consists of prefabricated Class…

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Hunter Express Way

InfraBuild Construction Solutions prefabricated parapet cages were used extensively in the design and construction of the cast in-situ barriers on the Hunter Expressway’s dual carriageway’s five viaduct bridges. By adopting this solution, Thiess effectively mitigated the risk of time blowouts and onsite safety issues on the $1.7 billion, 40-kilometre roads project.   Being prefabricated offsite with 20 mm reinforcing bars, welded and bent into shape then delivered…

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Bunnings Warehouse Rockdale

When AVM Constructions were tasked with delivering the new Bunnings Warehouse Rockdale site, they engaged InfraBuild Construction Solutions to supply BAMTEC® reinforcing carpet system for the massive 10,000 m2 raft slab.    BAMTEC® was essential in achieving the tight deadline for the new hardware store – especially when they experience unexpected ground conditions. Composed mostly of sand and silt, AVM Constructions had…

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Citywide Precast

Converting to BARMAT® has benefited Citywide Precast with savings on wastage to vastly improving efficiency. BARMAT® Class N Reinforcing Mats are an innovative solution from InfraBuild Construction Solutions, prefabricated mats customised with variable spacing and in a variety of shapes including 3D designs. BARMAT® can be produced to exact client specifications to enable faster installation, reduced labour and steel fixing costs, less off cuts and wastage and can also…

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Wodonga Rail Bypass

The Wodonga Rail Bypass Project is a five kilometre dual track rail bypass, which incorporates 12 bridges situated in the Murray River floodplain, crossing local rivers and creeks. Vibropile commissioned with the construction of the bridges, specialise in Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) piling. This technique involves injecting concrete under pressure as the auger is being extracted to form the concrete column,…

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Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

As one of the largest and most complex construction projects in Australia, the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) set a new benchmark in design and construction. Spanning 130,000 sqm of floor space across 13 levels with over 25,000 sqm of specialised research space designed to house 1200 medical researchers, the project cost $1.2 billion.   Since timing was one of the key performance…

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Residential Towers

A complete solution developed by InfraBuild Construction Solutions has been key to the efficient construction of Residential Towers at Hurstville in Sydney’s South. The inclusion of prefabricated steel reinforced floor columns and BAMTEC® from InfraBuild Construction Solutions has added to the speed and cost-effectiveness of construction as well as simplifying administration and site management.   InfraBuild Construction Solutions was approached by Kayrouz Constructions to develop a…

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RAAF Amberley Base

InfraBuild Construction Solutions played a key role in saving time for the heavily reinforced 200 mm thick concrete raft slab of the 6 Squadron A.M.E.N.S. workshop at the RAAF’s Amberley base in Brisbane.   InfraBuild Construction Solutions recommended Bovis Lend Lease use BAMTEC® for the project to improve speed of placement, reduce labour and the number of trades onsite. BAMTEC® is fabricated under factory conditions- eliminates placement errors, ensuring construction quality is optimised and reducing the requirement for on-site inspections.   At RAAF Amberley, the slab for the workshop was 1230 m2, broken into four pour areas ranging in size from 220 m2 to 520 m2. By adopting the BAMTEC® solution Bovis Lend Lease substantially reduced steel placement times. For example,19 BAMTEC® carpets, totaling around 8.5 tonne of reinforcing, were placed by four men in just 100 minutes. This equates to around 9 – 10 tonne per man, per day, or approximately 30 tonne per day with equivalent resources on a similar project. 

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Precinct C

Precinct C is a multi-story commercial office development for the Australian Taxation Office in Canberra. A unique feature of the structural design for the project is the inclusion of with ‘Y’ shaped columns. The columns rise up from the multi-level basement carpark to the underside of the first floor, spitting in two at an angle of 50 degrees. The arms for the ‘Y’ are 6.2 m long and range in height from 1.2 m to 3.7 m above ground. The Y columns…

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

InfraBuild Construction Solutions worked closely with Grocon when they undertook the challenging task of redeveloping the Melbourne Cricket Ground. This landmark project had a tight schedule with multiple stages, to coincide with time-critical deadlines associated with key sporting events.    As speed and efficiency were the key drivers in the choice of construction, Grocon combined several modular building techniques. The hybrid construction strategy comprised of hollowcore precast concrete floor slabs and…

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Kwinana Railway Extension

InfraBuild Reinforcing demonstrated the effectiveness of Prefabrication on the Kwinana Railway Extension Project. The project, which involved the construction of four railway underpasses using the TechSpan Arches, was built by Thiess Contractors. Working on behalf of precast concrete manufacturer, Geocrete, InfraBuild Construction Solutions prefabricated 600 11 m long x 2 m wide curved reinforcing cages…

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