34 - Queensland Tenders The department is carrying out slope stabilisation and curve widening works on various sections of Kuranda Range, Kennedy Highway. Location The work will repair 16 sites above and below the range road between the bottom of the range and Koah Road. Four curves will be widened at the same time. Benefits The works will stabilise slopes above and below the road while the curve widening works will improve safety and travel time. The curve widening works were fast-tracked to coincide with the slope stabilisation works to reduce overall delays for motorists, deliver more cost effective improvements and provide a safer stretch of the highway sooner. Supplier Pensar is delivering the works on behalf of the department. About Pensar Civil Pensar is a dynamic construction group with diverse expertise in civil, building and utilities projects. Established in Brisbane in 2000, Pensar has earned an enviable reputation for quality and dependability, building longstanding partnerships with clients and contractors alike. Kuranda Range – Kennedy Highway As construction specialists, Pensar has successfully delivered complex, large-scale projects in local and remote locations. Today, the company has the capacity and specialist expertise to deliver multidisciplinary projects wherever and whenever they’re required. With three distinct yet integrated divisions, Pensar offers the capability and dependability of a large group, with the flexibility and responsiveness of a boutique operation— multiple solutions with a single point of contact. With an unwavering commitment to project objectives, stakeholder requirements and industry standards, Pensar delivers. SAXON DRILLING (07) 4059 1964 (07) 4059 1964 Mobile: Fax: 0427 762 110 (07) 4059 1966 Soil Nailing - Tension Anchors - Grouting - Shotcreting Horizontal Drainage - Scaling - Rockfall Netting Installation Stress Testing - Packer Tests - Piston Sampling Shear Vane Testing (to 40m) - SPT - Test Pits Email: [email protected]Web: www.saxondrilling.com.au Specialists in Difficult Access Sites, Slope Stabilisation and Geotechnical Drilling PLEASE OBEY SIGNS AROUND ROADWORKS PLEASE OBEY SIGNS AROUND ROADWORKS 0427 648 671 Phone
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34 - Queensland Tenders
The department is carrying out slope stabilisation and curve widening works on various sections of Kuranda Range, Kennedy Highway.
LocationThe work will repair 16 sites above and below the range road between the bottom of the range and Koah Road. Four curves will be widened at the same time.
Benefits The works will stabilise slopes above and below the road while the curve widening works will improve safety and travel time.
The curve widening works were fast-tracked to coincide with the slope stabilisation works to reduce overall delays for motorists, deliver more cost effective improvements and provide a safer stretch of the highway sooner.
Supplier Pensar is delivering the works on behalf of the department.
About Pensar CivilPensar is a dynamic construction group with diverse expertise in civil, building and utilities projects.
Established in Brisbane in 2000, Pensar has earned an enviable reputation for quality and dependability, building longstanding partnerships with clients and contractors alike.
Kuranda Range – Kennedy Highway
As construction specialists, Pensar has successfully delivered complex, large-scale projects in local and remote locations.
Today, the company has the capacity and specialist expertise to deliver multidisciplinary projects wherever and whenever they’re required.
With three distinct yet integrated divisions, Pensar offers the capability and dependability of a large group, with the flexibility and responsiveness of a boutique operation—multiple solutions with a single point of contact.
With an unwavering commitment to project objectives, stakeholder requirements and industry standards, Pensar delivers.
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Project Overview• Clearing & Grubbing in a Wet Tropic World Heritage
Area. • Rock Scaling and batter regrading using a long reach
and at times beyond the reach of a long reach. • Earthworks excavation and embankment works including
the rock armouring of down slope batters on a narrow, winding and busy road.
• Traffic management that included contraflow, 24hour lane closures, the use of temporary traffic lights over a 24hr period all in extreme weather conditions.
• Road pavement reconstruction. • Slope Stabilization & Protection Works• Soil Nailing and rock doweling both upslope and down
slope using elevated work platforms and sleds,• Shotcreting both upslope and down slope batters using
fibre and unfibre reinforced Coloured concrete.• The installation of Steel Wire Gabion & Mattress Works
down slope to enable curve widening and out fall structure protection.
• High Tensile Steel and Erosion Netting was installed on both up slope and down slope.
• A Fauna Crossing was constructed.
Project Highlights• This was the first project undertaken by DTMR on the
Kuranda Range to feature 24 hour construction work• Works took place in an environmentally sensitive World
Heritage Tropical area. • Work undertaken in the wet season.• The project survived a Cyclone.
• The project was constructed on time and budget.• There were no lost time injuries.• There were no significant or serious traffic incidents
Subcontractors and SuppliersClient The Department of
Transport and Main Roads Far Northern Region
Saxon Drilling Soil nailingGroundwork Group Gabion wallsNorth Oz Shotcrete Facing PTS Traffic Management Pioneer North Queensland Quarry and ConcreteBono’s Excavations Plant hireMick Newport Plant hireWorkpac Group Labour Hire