Chapter 6
I Construction During The Settlement Years
II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material
III Structural Steel
IV Concrete Technology
V Housing
VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing
VII Ports And Harbours
VIII Roads
IX Heavy Foundations
i Hawkesbury Railway Bridge
ii Impact of Floods
iii Hydraulic Jetting
iv Development Between First and Second World Wars
v Foundations Post-Second World War
vi Victorian Arts Centre
vii Bowen Bridge
X Bridges
XI Sewerage
XII Water Engineering
XIII Railways
XIV Major Buildings
XV Airports
XVI Thermal Power Stations
XVII Materials Handling
XVIII Oil Industry
XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme
XX The Sydney Opera House
XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge
XXII Hamersley Iron
XXIII North West Shelf
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Victorian Arts Centre
Special measures were required for the foundations of the Theatres Building in the Victorian Arts Centre complex as a result of the existence of 18 metres of soft silt, together with highly corrosive groundwater, liable to attack both steel and concrete. The finished structure, designed by John Connell and Associates, incorporates heavy steel piles (loaded in tension as well as compression), cathodic protection and a butyl rubber tanking membrane around the entire basement structure.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - John Connell and Associates
People in Bright Sparcs - Sewell, A. P.
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