It is 60m long, 28m wide and 17.2m high to the eaves. It has a 30cm thick RC slab with two layers of reinforcement in it. It has two Kone gantry cranes running the building's length, each capable of lifting 10 tonnes. We also put in two mechanic's pits with a drain to diespose of old oil into a used oil tank. We built a 40,000 litre water tank, a septic tank, a waste water tank - we had to exend the slab along one side of the building to provide an area to wash cranes. We made some toilets out of an old shipping container. We also made some offices out of shipping containers. We gravelled the yard and put up security fencing around the site and built a guardhouse. We also installed and hooked up a 400kva genset. I think that was about it.
We had to mix all the concrete by hand in two small petrol mixers as quality Readymix is not available here. It was a nightmare - almost 1000m3 of concrete. If I did it again I would have to set up a batching plant and get a lorry. The big firms here set up batching plants for their jobs.
Ted wrote:We had to mix all the concrete by hand in two small petrol mixers as quality Readymix is not available here. It was a nightmare - almost 1000m3 of concrete.
For some reason the client didn't want the ends of the workshop closed/clad nor doors on the side entrance.
But when it rains and there is a bit of wind the rain really enters the building so hopefully we will get the job to close the ends of the workshop and maybe install doors. The client has said it is a problem. Also, it gets really hot in there as the sun shines in and makes it unbearable to work in.
hi ted nice work thats a lot of mixing could do with some granite setts amongst that gravel will bring a big mixer ha ha which part of sa are you.been there twice on rugby tours cape town loved it :p
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