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Case Studies

BAMTEC Tram Road

500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Tram Road Doncaster, VIC

OneSteel Reinforcing has provided Galvin Construction with a complete construction solution package for its low income housing development at Tram Road, in Melbourne’s north-east.  The fixed price package integrated a number of innovative construction technologies such as 500PLUS® BAMTEC® carpets, TRUSSDEK® permanent composite formwork and Supply & Fix®.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® Overview Video

500PLUS® BAMTEC® is the world’s fastest steelfixing system. Reinforcing steel ‘carpets’ are rolled up for transport and, when needed on site, are simply lifted into place and unrolled onto continuous bar chairs, improving speed, quality and safety.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – MiCasa8 Student Accommodation, VIC

MiCasa8 is a 219 unit student accommodation complex in Melbourne VIC built by Galvin Construction. The use of 500PLUS® BAMTEC® carpets helped Galvin Construction save on reinforcing installation time, labour and steelfixing, and contributed to Galvin Construction completing the MiCasa8 project two months ahead of schedule.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Residential Towers, NSW

Residential Towers is a seven storey building comprising of residential apartments and office suites located in Hurstville, Sydney. Builder Kayrouz Constructions were able to install four layers of 500PLUS carpets, equating to seven tonnes of steel reinforcing, in ten hours. This reduced steelfixing labour and site congestion. Kayrouz Constructions had used 500PLUS BAMTEC® carpets on a previous project in Bankstown where they built 219 units.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Car Showroom, VIC

The people in the best position to comment on whether or not 500PLUS® BAMTEC® is as good as OneSteel Reinforcing claims it is, are those who have to handle and install the product, steelfixers.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – MCG, VIC

A 3 year project to rebuild the northern side of the Melbourne Cricket Ground redevelopment project included 500PLUS® BAMTEC® for the majority of the horizontal elements for their time and labour saving benefits. With up to 80 different bar lengths in a single carpet, with some carpets up to 13.5 m wide and 20 m long.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Meriton Apartments, NSW

500PLUS® BAMTEC® proved its versatility on the 600 m2 floor areas in the construction of a small, seven-storey block of apartments at Waitara on Sydney's North Shore.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Millers Self Storage, VIC

Millers Self Storage depot in Abbotsford, Melbourne utilised 500PLUS® BAMTEC® to construct their 9000 square metres of floor space. This saved builder, ADCO constructions up to 8 working days per floor.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Rose Bay Apartment, NSW

The project engineer and builder of a 14 unit residential complex designed the basement floor, columns and blockwork walls to accommodate 500PLUS® BAMTEC® to improve the speed, cost, ease and safety of the reinforcement installation.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Coca Cola Warehouse, NSW

500PLUS® BAMTEC® helped speed construction and save costs on large 93 m x 128 m slab for a new automated warehouse and manufacturing production line built by Coca-Cola at Northmead, NSW.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – University Square, VIC

500PLUS® BAMTEC® as part of a fixed price scheduling, Supply and Fix package was used on Melbourne’s University Square project, the largest single expansion in the history of the University.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Mondrian Apartments, NSW

500PLUS® BAMTEC® helped builder John Holland consistently maintain fast floor cycles during construction of the 26 storeys of Mondrian Apartments on the corner of Spencer and Little Londsdale Streets in Melbourne.

 



500PLUS® BAMTEC® – Bunnings Warehouse, NSW

500PLUS® BAMTEC® reinforcing steel rollout carpet system saved builder AVM Constructions a significant amount of time and money in the construction of a massive 10,000m2 raft slab at Bunnings Warehouse in Rockdale, Sydney.