New Ball Sport's Field Safety Net Structures Arrive

Posted by: Steve Lewenhoff 8 years, 4 months ago

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Its been a long time coming to Western Australia but finally ball sporting bodies and grounds owner/managers have picked up the ball on spectator and passerby safety. 

The first, of what undoubtedly will be numerous, installation of "Ball Sport Safety Net Structures” consisting of 4 x 12m poles with the catch net spanning 30 metres went off without a hitch for the Foundation Engineering Group.

                                 

Foundation Engineering’s engineer Ali Bataghva designed both a concrete bored pile and a mono-screwpile option to cater for variable ground conditions and the fast installation of foundations and pole erection.  The time frame for the first project was extremely tight so anything that saved time and money was introduced into the design and installation.

                                 

The original pole design and connection interface to a mass concrete footing that was designed by another engineering firm was completely revised to a more cost effective solution.  One that allowed for "a same" universal pole and connecting interface design regardless of which foundation option was required in accordance with site and ground specific conditions.

                                 

This enabled the mass production of poles for future projects thereby reducing manufacturing costs.  Ali considered the concrete bored pile the most appropriate for the first site being the sports field in Mandurah  That selection proved to be a wise one as rock boulders were encountered at one auguring location.

                                 

Sporting fields are inherently located on reclaimed land, or rehabilitated rubbish tips, so the likelihood of ground variability is high.  Foundation Engineering carries out a geotechnical assessment of site's prior to nominating the piled foundation type.

                                  

Final outcome? Articulate planning delivered an on time and under budget outcome for both us and our client so we can't ask for more than that.  Well done to our crew, Dave, Wayne, Andrew, Matt and Andy and the rest of the team who combined, manufactured the poles and foundations, constructed the caged and pier'd concrete bored piles and erected the 12m poles at lightening speed.  You made the client very happy.  Now get ready for the others.

                                   

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