Laing O’Rourke (Defence) · Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, QLD
ASMTI Bulk Logistics
Road and Node
Project overview
Construction of a greenfield road, the Bulk Logistics Node and the Stanage Bay Road intersection (work package WP10002), described as the highest-value civil package on the ASMTI project. The remote site, 1.5 hours from Rockhampton, required drill-and-blast rock excavation, major culverts and steel-fibre concrete pavements, and the team worked through range fires and significant flooding.
Completed on the contracted date for practical completion with no liquidated damages applied.
- multi-layer road pavement
- 15 km
- culverts, up to 7-cell link slab
- 11
- MRTS39 & MRTS40 concrete pavement
- 2,100 m³
- imported fill
- 90,000 m³
- pavement material
- 80,000 m³
- rock excavation incl. blasting
- 10,000 m³
Scope of works
- Clearing, grubbing and ground surface treatment along 15 km of alignment
- 10,000 m³ of rock excavation including blasting at two locations
- 90,000 m³ of imported Class A2 fill and 80,000 m³ of imported pavement material
- 11 culverts, up to 7-cell 3.6 m x 3 m link slab culverts
- 2,100 m³ of MRTS39 & MRTS40 concrete pavement
- Shotcrete batter protection, drains and waterway barrier works
- Service location, protection and relocation
- 50-space car park for the Precinct B facility
Project gallery
The scope of the works were challenged by a number of major weather events along with impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic, however the Bellequip team continued to overcome these challenges and produced a compliant end product that met the project requirements.
