Recent Jobs
Cairns Rope Access has just returned from Koombooloomba hydro. We assisted Kelly's Aqua Jetting by pressure cleaning the inclined penstock as part of their major conduate cleaning contract.
At 11:30 am on a Saturday in July,we received a phone call. Cement Australia Gladstone had called an emergency shutdown on Friday night to perform urgent repairs to one of the kilns. Welders where to enter the the base of the 70m high structure on Monday. The usual procedure is to install a number of protective decks but that takes about 4 days so they planed to just build the bottom one.
With about 60m of heat bricks and refractory over head there was no way the Riggers where going to be allowed to go in.
Which is why they were calling us. They wanted to know if we could put a crew in Gladstone for Monday morning to perform an inspection and make safe work from the top down, before the Riggers went in. So we set to work and by Sunday night we had a crew in Gladstone with all their kit.
The work went well. We rounded off the trip by providing rescue cover for the riggers building the deck.
Laing O'Rourke has just finished building the new government offices in Cairns and needed to pressure clean the concrete slab edges. They looked at bringing in a large crane to suspend a man box to work out of. However putting a crane that close to the building so near hand over would have been risky, especially with the winds we get this time of year. So when we told them we could do the job quicker cheaper and safer they were interested.
They were still concerned about damaging the the top edge of the building which was made from apolic sheeting so we developed an edge protection system that spread the workers load over a meter.
As usual the wash down came off without a hitch and we were able to save them time and money.
Cairns Rope Access has just returned from Gladstone where we entered a Cement Australia silo. We provided a photographical survey of the roof and helped clear the inward opening door at the base of the silo, allowing access for maintenance.
Cairns rope access recently installed a 7m sign on Park Regis for Expressway Signs using rope access techniques. We were able to prevent a simple job from becoming a nightmare.
Between the initial quote and the installation the council dug up the road in front of the building making the use of machinery impossible.
Cairns Rope Access was contracted to provide an internal and external visual and photographical survey of the Cement Australia silo in Townsville. The structure is 65m high and 30m wide.
The job required suspended confined space entry into a working silo half full of cement and dispatching day and night.
