Boral Team Perth is Building Something Great with the $288 million extension of Stephenson Avenue over Mitchell Freeway.
The project will be pouring over 26,000m3 of concrete and includes multiple bridges and surrounding infrastructure.
With difficult night pours, high specification concrete, work in confined areas with significant time constraints – it’s teamwork that has helped us deliver success.
Delivering the Boral Way
It’s taken a true collaborative effort from teams across Boral to deliver this work.
Our Sales, Concrete, Quarries, Logistics, Laboratory Services and Customer Experience teams have worked closely to coordinate a delicate ballet of material deliveries to replenish the supplying batch plants after normal hours.
The team also needed the right supply rate to service up to two boom pumps at a time and ensure we maintained the required 'rate of rise' specified for the structure.
Safety and fatigue management have been top priority when planning these pours, especially the pours in tightly constrained work areas along the freeway median strip with live traffic on one side and live rail on the other.
Nathan McGreevy Account Manager Concrete WA said “Through constant communication with the customer, we’ve been able to deliver to the project’s stringent requirements - none of this would be possible without the effort from across Boral.”
The client, S2M Evolution Alliance with Acciona and WSP, have been impressed with the work so far.
Ben Myer Project Engineer at S2M Evolution Alliance had this to say “As our major concrete supplier on the project, Boral has helped us deliver a mountain of work. We’ve had over 19,000 m3 of concrete poured in this time, with some very large and difficult pours along the way.”
Boral Area Manager Concrete WA Kevin Mooney said “Boral Osborne Park have exceeded customers expectations with dozens of “out of hours” temperature-controlled concrete pours. Our drivers have really nailed these pours, delivering very high specification concrete safely to site.”
“It shows how well our team comes together to deliver on Building Something Great.”
Laboratory Services Manager WA Dean Pattison said "The Laboratory Services team were able to provide support to the customer relating to maturity, calibration and compressive strength performance. This required our team to be available round the clock for 96 hours at one point - so our customer could monitor performance in real time and tension the pour at the right time."
Culum Semmence a Senior Project Engineer at S2M Evolution Alliance said “Pour plans have been developed in conjunction with the Boral team to ensure timely delivery in tight working windows with rail shuts and freeway lane closures.”
“Boral have been flexible in meeting the changing site requirements and the thermal management of concrete pours. Nathan and the whole Boral team are willing and proactive in their approach to ensure we can deliver.”
