John Holland is one of Australia’s leading end-to-end integrated infrastructure, rail and multi-modal transport companies. The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is an Australian Government-owned statutory organisation
CLIENT | JOHN HOLLAND & ARTC
CATEGORY | CIVIL & CONCRETE
Together, both organisations are working together on the North East Rail Line Upgrade project, with a primary goal of strengthen the capacity to carry double-stacked containers and take trucks off the road by putting the cargo onto trains.
Our Solution
To kick off this project, Brunton carried extensive onsite, including geotechnical testing and site survey to collect raw data.
ARTC supplied the bridge design for Brunton to use and make amenable to specific locations along the rail network.
The team worked in the unique ‘linear ecosystem’ of the rail corridor. Each location required access for heavy vehicle transportation through sensitive environments and poor-quality access routes.
Brunton built new access roads to reduce hazards with the heavy loads.
The team initiated weekly 60-hour shuts, where up to four discrete round-the-clock crews replaced the existing timber bridges with the new prestressed concrete bridge spans.
Our Results
Brunton was initially contracted to construct around sixty locations. But due to COVID-19 shutting down train operations, the project expanded to over one hundred locations. The team performed ten years of rail upgrades in a single year.
Brunton’s internal approach for lift-planning centres around ensuring geotechnical conditions are sound. This let the team construct adaptative safe-working platforms to give our clients full peace of mind.
