John Seovic was a pioneer in all forms of concrete slipform paving for 40 years.

John Seovic was a pioneer in all forms of concrete slipform paving for 40 years.

In the beginning ……..

he started doing kerb and gutter and footpaths

( Dept HousingMacquarie FieldsConcrete footpaths1974/5 )

1978 First slipformed road – Foreshore Rd Port Botany.

Early 1982 – no slipform pavers in AustraliaMid 1982 John Holland M4 Mays Hill CMI F250

August 1982 John Seovic Old Windsor Rd - Miller M9000

• Telescopic frame – quick mould width change• Quick to pack up and transport overnight• Quick site setup – lean concrete in composite pavement• Miller added “S” to M9000 in recognition of improvements

Queensland early 1983

Paved 1km (single lane) – 815 m3 - in one dayReadymix supply

Major highway/motorway paving

35 counts per kmachieved Hume HighwayBowning 1995/96

Airport paving : first use of slipform paver Brisbane International Terminal

(also Changi Airport Singapore – no forms)

External hardstandings – long strip paving

Internal shed/factory floors

Cycleways, pathways, golf courses

• John Seovic played a prominent role in getting slip-formed concrete roadside and median barrier walls established as a recognised construction technique in Australia in the early 1970s using various mould profiles attached to a tracked paving machine. Bought some pavers from DMR.

• The first barrier wall was constructed for Campbelltown City Council and later New Jersey median barrier (before Type F) was constructed for the NSW Department of Main Roads (now RMS) on the Parramatta Bypass (James Ruse Drive) in 1976.

Median/roadside barriers

Seovic has successfully constructed concrete barrier walls in a range of heights and variable profiles up to 2.25 metres high.

Median barriers

Lighting conduits through barriers with light stanchion blockouts

Parapet walls

Motor racing crash barriers

Mt Panorama Bathurst

Drainage canals

Beef export feedlot farms – feed troughs

As far back as 1995/96 John Seovic began looking into feasibility of introducing diamond grinding and finally did so in 2009/10

A personal anecdote :Newell Highway – Marsden,40km from West Wyalong - 1995

As he will be remembered

• Always on a machine tinkering with something

• Battered baseball cap

• Ragged clothes even the most desperate charity would not accept

• Scruffy dark beard

• Cheesy grin

John Seovic

Innovator - “give it a go”Self madeIntensely loyalDetermined

Pioneer – stalwart

Supporter of ACPAVE/ASCP

All out of his own bank account

We are unlikely to see his kind again

A concrete paving legend

Valé John Seovic

“Done too soon”(Neil Diamond)

January 1946 – April 2014