Australia (Gold Coast) - Thrower Drive Boardwalk - update

Superior Jetties has completed the largest single-element construction the company has ever undertaken – a bridge for the Thrower Drive boardwalk on the Gold Coast (Australia).

The aluminium truss gangway is 4m wide and spans nearly 25m in length. Thrower Drive boardwalk is a joint project between Gold Coast City Council and the Main Roads department and has  to meet the bridge code of Queensland. As a result it has a design load of 9kPa and in order to meet this exacting specification, special structural grades were made for the job to support a theoretical load of 100t.

In total it was a four-week build-time and the bridge was craned into position at the site last week using a specially designed float arrangement (comprised of a combination of specially made Ultimate Modular Dock (UMD) segments and some integrated compressed-air floatation from our Hydrolift boatlift series) that allowed the freeboard to be controlled. This allowed the whole operation to run smoothly with the massive structure lowered onto the piles in an incredible 20 minute operation.

Click here to check out some of the photos on Superior Jetties’ Facebook page