Hamersley Iron - Rio Tinto
Koodaideri Village Project

The establishment of a new village. Works include detailed earthworks, installation of transportable buildings, construction of facilities, concrete, electrical and communications works, potable water reticulation and sewerage reticulation.

Location: Koodaideri, WA

Expected Completion: June 2011

Degremont / Thiess / Nacap
Victorian Desalination Plant Project - Installation of Sheetpiling

Victorian Desalination Project Pipeline - Access & Receival pits. Works to include the supply & installation of 1188 no. 600mm wide, 12m, 16m & 19m long Sheet piles at 9 separate locations, excavation of jacking & receival pits, structural steel and concrete works, and all backfilling operations.

Hamersley Iron - Rio Tinto
Dampier Tug Pen Expansion Project

The RT Dampier tug pen is an existing facility currently accommodating 4 tug vessels, 2 line boats and 1 pilot boat. the upgrade will expand the facility to accommodate an additional 2 tug vessels based on similar layout to the exisiting facility. The marine works includes marine structure design, new piling to support an additional finger pier arrangement and access walkways connecting the existing structures.

Hamersley Iron-Yandi Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto)
Yandicoogina Village Upgrade Project

Bulk earthworks and expansion of existing accommodation and associated facilities including roadworks, transportable buildings, electrical and mechanical services, concrete works and landscaping.

Hamersley Iron-Yandi Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto)
Yandicoogina Heavy Vehicle Fuel Facility Project

Works comprise of manufacturing, supply, installation and commissioning of a refueling system for the Fuel Facility Area.

Jupiter Steel Fabrications
Exmouth Marina Village

Works include the pitching and rotopiling of 18 meter piles with toe depth of 6 meters below the seabed floor. Works also included the tensile testing of six piles to 30 tonne.

Location: Exmouth, WA

Completed: December 2010

Dampier Salt - Rio Tinto
Dampier Salt Water Intake Project

Supply and installation of 6 rock-socketed tubular piles as part of the Pond Zero Pump Station Upgrade. The 610mm diameter piles are 20m in length and will support a new pump station platform on the seaward side of the existing levee.

HWE Mining Pty Ltd
Seawall Embankment Construction

Installation of 460m of sheet piles along a seawall on Cockatoo Island off the Western Australian Coastline. Sheets are up to 16m in lengths and of two different profiles.

Location: Cockatoo Island, WA

Completed: July 2010

Hamersley Iron-Yandi Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto)
Yandicoogina New Access Road & Related Civil Works

Bulk earthworks and construction for a new 2.2km access road at Rio Tinto’s Yandicoogina Mine Site. Works to include all filling, compaction, paving  & drainage requirements including the installation of approximately 12 drainage culverts.

Location: Yandicoogina, WA

Completed: June 2010

Hamersley Iron-Yandi Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto)
Yandicoogina Levee Bank

Bulk earthworks and construction of 480m of Levee Bank at Rio Tinto's Yandicoogina mine site.

Location: Yandicoogina, WA

Completed: April 2010

Abigroup
Australian Marine Complex (AMC) Service & Supply Base - Piling Works

This project is designed as a barge berth for Chevron’s Gorgon Project. Austral’s scope was to install 409 No. paired sheetpiles to form 295m main wall and 260m anchor wall. Sheetpiles were installed in lengths of up to 19m long using a Banut 655 and leader-guided vibrator. 6 No. mooring piles were also installed with diameters of 762mm and 914mm. Works were completed 1 month ahead of schedule.

Location: Henderson, WA

Completed: February 2010

Hamersley Iron-Yandi Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto)
Access Road Tunnel Installation

Installation of Multi Plate Arch Tunnel for New Mine Access Road and Screening, Placement and compaction of fill around tunnel to enable Haul trucks to cross over.

Location: Yandicoogina, WA

Completed: January 2010

Thiess
Sino Iron Causeway Creek Crossing Piling Works & Bridge Deck Installation Works

Installation of 159 number, 610 diameter piles and construction of a 120m long x 28m wide bridge structure. Works include the design and fabrication of a falseworks system to enable hand over hand installation of the piles, the welding in place of 23 Number Steel headstocks and the installation of 600 No. precast planks  then the pouring of 920m3 of insitu concrete to form the deck.

Location: Cape Preston, WA

Completed: December 2009

Project involves the installation of over 450 piles for the reconstruction of Berth 10 and future deepening of the inner harbour. The works include 610mm & 813mm diameter wharf piles and 610mm diameter clutched tubular piles.

Location: Fremantle, WA

Completed: December 2009

Robe River Iron (Rio Tinto)
West Angelas Village Upgrade

Major upgrade of the existing accommodation village infrastructure at West Angelas to provide a consistent standard of accommodation for all equivalent full time employees, improved recreational facilities, reliable services infrastructure and improved functionality.
 
Location: West Angelas, WA

Completed: August 2009

Installation of infrastructure for collecting and cleaning storm water and process water. The infrastructure will treat the water of hydrocarbon and sediment contamination. Once treated the water will be reused at the mine landform area for water storage and reticulation. It will be located in the vicinity of the washdown pad and workshop at the West Angelas mine site.

Location: West Angelas, WA

Completed: August 2009

Construction of an office facility and an erection of a workshop facility for the maintenance of plant equipment. This includes earthworks, footing and slab construction, installation of hydraulic services, power supply and compressed air piping.

Location: West Angelas, WA

Completed: August 2009

McMahon Holdings Ltd
Collie River Bridge Piling Works

Austral proposed an alternative design to install 32 No. 610mm diamter raking piles closed ended. Piles were designed to support four river piers and were driven utilising a spudded barge, Moonbeam piling leader and S-90 hydraulic hammer. Piling was completed on schedule despite poor weather conditions.

Construction of a MEM Lube Storage Shed. The Shed will be used to store bulk lube containers and will be a loading and unloading point for lube service trucks. The new shed will comply with relevant Rio Tinto and Australian Standards for storage of hydrocarbons. 

Location: Paraburdoo, WA

Completed: December 2008

Installation of infrastructure for collecting and cleaning storm water and process water. The infrastructure will treat the water of hydrocarbon and sediment contamination. Once treated, the water will be re-used at the mine landform area for water storage and reticulation. It will be located in the vicinity of the washdown pad and workshop at the West Angelas mine site.

Location: West Angelas, WA

Completed: December 2008

Queenscliff Harbour Pty Ltd
Queenscliff Harbour Redevelopment Stage 2 - Harbour and Boatyard

Construction  of extension to existing harbour which involves the installation of approximately 450m of sheetpile wall and removal of existing sheetpile wall. Dredging of harbour included contaminated soils. The construction of capping beams and tie backs to the sheetpile wall. the construction of piled jetties for a straddle carrier including structural concrete slabs. The removal of existing timber jetties and mooring piles.

Georgiou Group
AMC Transfer Station & Interface Wharf

Combined 540m of main wall AZ26 12m sheet piles and AZ17 5m anchor wall sheet piles installed using our Bauer RG16T Piling Rig following pre-boring with an ABI MobilRam 13/16. 17 No. steel tubular piles with diameters between 762mm and 1000mm were also installed as part of the subcontract

Excavation and earthworks carried out for the construction of a sediment pond including PVC liner to embankment, concrete spillway and placement of rip rap.

Location: Paraburdoo, WA

Completed: August 2008

JJ MacDonald & Sons Group
Port Coogee Marine Bridges Piling

Installation of 32 No. 800mm diameter piles using Austral Construction ROTOPILE Method from spudded barge

Engineered Water Systems
Royal Perth Yacht Club, Driven Steel Piles

Installation of client supplied piles, Install 48 No. 610mm diamter piles up to 27m long and 41 No. 406mm diameter piles up to 27m long

Location: Perth, WA

Port Kembla Port Corp. / Georgiou Group
Construction of PKPC Eastern Basin Berth 103

Subcontract for installation and testing of 154 No. 1500mm diameter clutched tubular piles, 368 No. AZ36 sheet piles and the construction of a berthing dolphin for new berth facilities at Port Kembla's Eastern Basin Berth 103 for Port Kembla Corporation.

Location: Port Kembla, NSW

Thiess Pty Ltd
HMAS Cairns Redevelopment - Marine Structures Trade Package 030

Construction of a 66m x 3m widening piled cast insitu deck to the current Navy wharf, and a new access jetty to the Sugar Wharf structure which consists of a bridging section 92m long by 6m wide. The access jetty will be piled structure with an insitu deck with a service corridor on the south side of the jetty.

Location: HMAS Cairns, cairns, QLD

Department for Planning & Infrastructure
Fabrication & Installation of a Lit Piled Navagation Aid South of Bight Reef Mandurah

Supply and ROTO installation of a 508 diameter 22m long pile and top structure including navagation equipment at Bright Reef Mandurah.

Location: Mandurah, WA

Department for Planning & Infrastructure
Carnarvon Teggs Channel Markers No. 3 & 6 Replacement Navigational Aids

Supply and installation of two 508 diameter 22m long piles and the installation of client supplied top structures and navigation equipment.

Location: Teggs Channel, Carnarvon, WA

Construction and additions to the existing water management systems within the mine to collect and clean contaminated water from the mine. The project involves structural concrete works and earthworks in a working mine site.

Location: Tom Price, WA

Completed: August 2007

Construction of a temporary sheetpiled cofferdam in three stages for construction of a cast insitu concrete tunnel to enable the secure movement of racehorses between the new stables and the Birdcage. The full perimeter cofferdam requires 12 metre long L607 profile sheetpiles fully vibrated into saturated coode island silt to privide our client with a semi-dry enclosure to open tunnel whilst progressivley installing waler steelwork and propping beams.

Location: Flemington, Vic

Completed: August 2007

Yarnell Contracting / DPI
Coral Bay Boat Ramp

ROTO installation of 22 No. 323mm diameter 7m piles into rock and the construction/erection of a service wharf at Coral Bay.

Location: Coral Bay, WA

Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)
Replacement and repair of Aid to Navigation Structures

Removal and replacement of two damaged navigational aid structures; C2 & C6 located at the seaward end of the Port Headland shipping channel. Structures are both 39 meters long by 1250mm in diameter by 40mm wall thichness monopiles fitted with ladders, platforms, day markers, beacons, racon, radar reflectors and tide gauges. And the replacement of the top structure of C4

Location: Port Headland, WA

Hamersley Iron
Stacker 82 Civil Works

capital infrastructure works for Hamersley Iron involving re-construction of "Stacker 82" embankment and railway track. Works include excavation, demolition and profiling of stacker embankment, laying waterproof membrane, placement and compaction of structural fill, and laying new railway sleepers, track and associated ballast rock to extremely tight tolerance. Re-construction works were undertaken whilst the stacker was operational and the overhead conveyor was live.

Port Kembla Port corp. / Georgiou Group
Construction of PKPC Multi-Purpose Berth 3

Subcontract for installation and testing of 400 No. 1200 mm diameter tubular piles and 200 No. AU25 Sheet Piles for construction of new berth facilities at Port Kembla's Multi - Purpose Berth No. 3 for Port Kembla Port Corporation.

Location: Port Kembla, NSW

Georgiou Winslow Group (GWC)
Hallam Valley Main Sewer

Construction of 34 temporary works sheetpiled shafts for construction of approximately 5km of 1500mm diamter sewer main. shafts are up to 11m deep in poor ground conditions.

Location: Hallam / Narre Warren, VIC

Completed: March 2006

NSW Department of Commerce
Sooley Dam-Flood Security Upgrading and Raising

Excavation and construction of a new 100m wide primary service chute spillway. Raising and strengthening the existing concrwete gravity dam wall via the construction of a new buttress section capped by a reinforced concrete ogee overflow crest. Modifying and upgrading existing outlet works to suit the new dam arrangement and to cater for modern operational and maintenance standards.

Location: Goulburn, NSW

Department of Planning and Infrastructure
Carnarvon Land Backed Wharf

Construction of a new land backed wharf facility, complete with a hardstand and cyclone moorings. This involves constructing a sheet pile retaining wall with anchorage system, a primarily straight wharf section and a quay section. Project also involves dredging around the new wharf appropriate for the boats it will be accommodating.

Location: Carnarvon, WA

Port Kembla Port Corporation
Construction of Extension to the Multi-Purpose Berth

Construction of a 130 meter long wharf structure which is open deck on pile structure. Dredging clays and soft sediments from beneath the berth structure and reclamation area footprint and dredging the berth basin area to RL-14.5m. Total estimated dredge volume is in the order of 50,000 cubic meters. An armoured revetment beneath the open deck structure tied into the revetment beneath the existing berth.

Location: Port Kembla, NSW

Geraldton Port Authority
Construction of Modifications to Berths 3, 4 & 5

Construction of 12 piled dolphins, wharf platform in operating port conditions. Our part of the project involved extension of the quay line into the deepened harbour. The design specified installation of piles in rock, including a 5m socket beneath the toe of the driven pile. The scope also included the installation of services and wharf furniture.

Location: Geraldton, WA

State Water / NSW Dept. of Commerce
Warren Weirs Upgrade

Construction of four river regulating structures and accompanying fish ladders on the Macquarie River and Tributaries. Substancial temporary works for construction of the structures in 'dry' condition sees the Macquarie River diverted via a 220m long, 36,000 cubic meter excavated and rock benched channel and sheet pile cofferdams across the river. Temporary works ahve been designed to safely pass flood events of 4,000ml/day with no flooding of the works.

Location: Warren, NSW

Jones Rae Constructions Pty Ltd
Australian National Maritime Museum & Balmain Water Police

Installation of floating breakwater and jetty guide piles (verticals) and raking dolphin piles. Capability of installing the piles to the special tolerances required; 20mm in plan location and dead plumb. All piles were potted in sandstone by special rotary technique. Raking dolphin piles and one vertical test pile were grouted.

Location: Sydney Harbour, NSW

Port of Melbourne Corporation
Appleton Dock Fendering Upgrade

Construction of a modern rubber fendering system along nearly 1000m of Appleton Dock. Hydro demolition of the existing wharf structure was necessary to facilitate installation of 79 No. horizontal precast fender panels with rubber arch fenders. In addition, 29 No. had vertical steel fender frames with UHMWPE low friction facing for low freeboard ships. Austral fabricated multiple false work frames for demolition, precast panel installation and fender fit-off to increase safety and speed of installation and to allow uninterrupted berth operation.

Location: Melbourne, VIC