54,000m2 of Jointless Internal Warehouse slabs, and 45,000m2 of External Pavement, all reinforced with Dramix steel fibre. The Internal slabs were designed to have no saw-cuts to minimise maintenance under hard wheeled forklifts, and to accommodate up to 12.7 Tonne post loads from the installed racking. The External pavements loads of B-Double semi-trailers and associated handling equipment.
The major components of this project constructed in Forrestfield, Western Australia for
Western Power consists of three large bund areas which are designed with a crack width criteria
of 0.2mm, this was achieved by using a combined reinforcing method of DRAMIX
steel fibres and traditional reinforcing.
Project Completed in 2012
New build, approx 10,000 SM. Warehouse with ambient & controlled temperature used for international air & ocean freight.
2 single level warehouses and cold store industrial buildings. Both buildings have a large warehouse area & 3 level office space.
50,000m2 of completely seamless, absolutely no construction joints or saw-cuts, external pavement required to carry very heavy loads from bulk container storage and container handling equipment.
Owner: ACFS (Australian Container Freight Services) One of Australia’s largest container freight logistics providers.
Builder: Hansen Yuncken
Engineer: Northrop Consulting
Location: Port of Brisbane, QLD Australia
Application: Combi Slab
DRAMIX 4D SEAMLESS FLOOR
Postal handling facility
25t post load
Restraint conditions
Client requirement no joints
Time restraints for const.
Detailing the slab with joints to guarantee avoiding uncontrolled cracking under service stresses wouldn’t have been possible. The Dramix® 4D Combi Slab solution took this restraint into account and enabled the construction of a joint free floor.
Hamilton, NZ
Taking the restraint into account, the Dramix® Combi Slab solution enabled the construction of the floor completely joint free, eliminating construction and importantly maintenance costs associated with sawn and movement joints. This was important to the building owner because hard wheeled forklifts has been shown to cause extensive damage to joints.
Pallet storage facilities are heavily trafficked and can have high point loads from racking. Being able to eliminate joints is an attractive proposition to the building owner because it reduces downtime and ongoing maintenance costs associated with the upkeep of jointed floors.
Using a Dramix® Combi Slab solution meant this restraint could be taken into account in the design of the floor and enabled the construction of a joint free slab.
This was beneficial to the building owner because it eliminated the ongoing maintenance costs and disruption associated with joints.