Temporary Works
Propping a Loading Platform to Support a Generator – Brisbane
The Project
Shore Hire designed and installed a temporary propping solution to reinforce a loading platform at a Brisbane water treatment plant, enabling a heavy generator to be safely skated out and craned off-site.
Summary
Shore Hire created a temporary pad using Steel Plates and back-propped the deck with Shore Prop 400 modular props, further supported by propping towers, Steel Tilt Props in raking positions and Engineered Blocks as footings to manage the generator's load. Shore Hire's installation team also completed on-site welding to add a lug to the plates, allowing the old generator to be pulled out onto the deck smoothly and removed quickly, safely and more economically than alternative methods.
Challenge
Shore Hire was contacted by a crane company to help remove a generator from a pump station at a water treatment plant in Brisbane.
The plan was to swap out the generator by rolling or skating it out onto a loading platform to be craned off-site. However, this couldn’t be done without added support to the deck because the generator was too heavy and could potentially collapse the platform.
Solution
To solve this problem, we created a temporary pad for the deck out of our Steel Plates and back-propped the deck with our Shore Prop 400 modular props.
This was further supported by propping towers, our Steel Tilt Props being used as raking props, and our Engineered Blocks used as footings to account for the heavy load of the generator.
For this project, we engineered the design, installed the solution, and even did some on-site welding to add a lug to our plates to help pull the old generator out onto the deck.
The solution was a great success; the old generator was able to be removed quickly, safely, and far more economically than would have been possible with a different solution.
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