Awards
Husab Uranium Stockpile Cover & Ancillary
Structures, Mining and Industrial Category Winner
The Husab Uranium Stockpile Cover & Ancillary Structures, winner of the Mining and
Industrial Category, entailed the detailing, fabrication, corrosive protection, delivery
and installation of two thousand six hundred tons of steelwork, as well as twenty-one
thousand square metres of IBR sheeting.
“What really made it special for me is the fact that you have this structure that’s two
soccer fields long, and the best part of a soccer field wide put up in a matter of weeks –
purely because the job was planned so well.” – Spencer Erling, Retired SAISC Director.
There were a number of interesting challenges to overcome, i.e. short lead times, high
specifications required by client, galvanizing of trusses, for the logistical challenges
due to cross border distances, lifting and jacking in the 140 ton gantries and sheeting
the building on forty-five degree slopes. We pioneered some ideas at each phase to
overcome the challenges and ultimately bring the project home safely and in time.
Some highlights were:
• The logistical concern of delivering this volume of steel and sheeting was overcome
by partnering with a local transported and dedicated trucking supplemented our inhouse fleet.
• The development of the idea and plan to strand jack the gantries (50-meter span
and 140 tons) into place forty meters above ground level, as opposed to using the
traditional method of cranes, allowing for this part of the project work to be done
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