Midland Brick Hardstand Expansion

Wormall Civil were awarded the contract for the Midland Brick Hardstand Upgrade. The contract works had to be undertaken within the Midland Brick facility without causing any disruption to extensive plant operations at the site. The site is located directly adjacent the Swan River in Middle Swan and careful environmental consideration had to be undertaken to construction activities to avoid any impact to the surrounding area.

The scope of works included the following;

• Creating of a new 1 hectare drainage basin including 15,000m3 earthworks cut to fill.
• Earthworks to the existing drainage basin to create hardstand area and new hardstand drainage basin which included approx. 120,000m3 of earthworks using a combination of on site cut to fill and import fill. Works had to be undertaken with careful consideration to the private High Pressure gas line that was located with the proposed hardstand works area.
• Install of 5 hectare hardstand pavement which included import of 25,000 tonne of limestone and 20,000 tonne of roadbase
• The completion of the hardstand included primer seal, kerbing, brick paving, asphalt and guard rail installation.
• Extension of the existing drainage network within new hardstand with drainage pipe sizes ranging from 300mm dia. to 900mm dia.
• Install of a drainage pump station and nearly 1km of above ground and below ground 315mm dia. PE pipe drainage pressure main.
• Install of over half a kilometre of double storey sea container noise wall filled with ballast included 20,000m3 cut to fill of clay material to widen existing batter. Coordination of sea container delivery, unloading and installation using a 220 tonne crane was required to mitigate any disruption to the brick facilities operation. The sea container noise wall had to be installed adjacent existing mature eucalyptus trees and a High Pressure Gas Corridor.