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The eight hundred and twelve million dollar South Road Superway funded by
the Australian and South Australian Governments
is a key five kilometre link in Adelaide's free-flowing north-south corridor.
Construction of South Australia's biggest road project investment
to date is well under way.
With major construction activities at numerous worksites many people are helping
bring Adelaide's first elevated roadway to fruition.
Look we've got uh... quite an exciting team, quite a diverse range of skillsets on the project
considering the scale and size
from geologists involved in the foundation, foundation design, structural engineers
are heavily involved with the design of the elevated roadway, we've got om, uh...
manufacturing staff in the casting yard and and the construction team now
that's very excited and they're out there building the road. Some six
hundred people in all involved in the project to date, and some two thousand seven hundred and
fifty over the life of the project which makes it a very exciting opportunity at the moment.
Standing around fifteen metres above street-level the two point eight kilometre
elevated roadway will feature three lanes in each direction, with
construction clustered into three key parts:
the foundations, piers and deck,
and the road itself.
The foundations consists of thirty metre deep concrete piles
with two metre deep concrete pile caps supporting sixty-eight piers along the length of the
structure.
Construction of the foundations continues with a number of pile caps ready for the
commencement of the pier construction.
All the piers themselves are built in-situ, um using
advanced techniques and
basically utilizing
pre-fabricated form work.
The piers themselves weigh approximately four hundred and sixty tonnes each
and once the piers are erected
they'll support the two thousand two hundred precast segments, and once the segments
are joined together they
form the basis of the elevated roadway.
Each segment is made at the purpose-built facility on South Road,
Angle Park.
This ah, precast shed is probably one of the biggest buildings around the area; it's
about 11,000 square meters under cover.
We've got people working here night and day producing the segments you can see behind me
and they then
get put into storage for curing and then they head out to the main alignment to be put up on the
structure.
Each segment weigh up to ninety tonnes and requires a launching truss to lift
and place them once transported from the precast facility.
The launching truss, another construction landmark, stands some twenty-five metres
high, a hundred and fifty metres long and weighs about five hundred tonnes.
Using the latest in match cast construction technology
this project will at its peak see ten segments cast daily and a further
forty installed weekly.
Safely moving people along South Road as well as getting people to businesses
during construction is a key priority.
Likewise, providing long-term benefits to the area, like
better storm water management and new and improved local roads to and through
the commercial heart
of Regency Park and Wingfield.
For more information call 1300 638 789
or visit www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au