With the Hale St Bridge (officially named the Goodwill Bridge) well and truly completed we take this opportunity to look back on how this bridge structure was completed and in particular how the concrete was placed on this project.
From the earliest days of planning this project it was obvious this particular job was not going to be your standard bridge project. Some of the more challenging obstacles  presented were – pile caps situated mid river with no allowance for false work bridges, counter levered insitue bridge spans with no vehicle access and one of Brisbane’s busiest walk / pathways and road carriage ways running through the project.
The final outcome resulted in a large array of equipment being used to complete this project. Some of that equipments was as follows:

• Mobile boom pumps ranging in size from 25 to 48m to complete the land based structures.
• Two high pressure Schwing trailer pumps servicing two Schwing separate placing booms mounted on floating barges with concrete conveyed through 4 x 150m static lines on floating walkways.
• Schwing high pressure trailer pump servicing a mobile boom pump which was lifted onto the bridge structure.
• Water wash out system was used to complete all line clearing.

The Gold Coast Desalination Project, originally initiated by Gold Coast City Council and now owned by Sure Smart Water (whose sole shareholder is the Queensland Government), is the first large scale water desalination plant on Australia’s eastern seaboard.
Located at Tugun on a six hectare former landfill site, when fully operational the facility will supply 125 mega litres a day of pure drinking water to South East Queensland, one of Australia’s worst drought affected regions. The facility will be a vital element in the State Government’s new $9 billion SEQ Water Grid, Gold Coast City Council’s Water futures Strategy and the State Government’s South East Queensland Regional Drought Strategy Contingency Supply Plan.
The GCD Alliance (an alliance of leading companies appointed to deliver the project and the facility owner) will set a construction record by finalising the complex project by November 2008.

Another pedestrian bridge for the city of Brisbane, this project once again requires pumping solutions outside the norm.. Due to extremely bad    
site access on the city side of the project a long fixed concrete pump line was requested as the preferred method of placement. 

The design and construct contract commenced on 1 October 2007, with project completion scheduled for September 2009, in time for Queensland's 150th year anniversary celebrations.

The Goodwill bridge is a vital pedestrian link between South Bank and the Brisbane City. 
At 500 meters long, from one side of the river to the other this project was always going to be challenging and different to any other pumping    
job previously. For various reasons this project required a floating line from one side of the river across to each of the different structures       
where a mobile boom pump was placed on a barge to help convey the concrete to the required heights. This concrete was pumped from the river     
bank with the help of a high pressure skid pump.     

As part of the upgrade  to the R G Tanna Coal terminal in Gladstone a extra shipping berth and coal loader was added to the wharf. This   
required additional dolphins to be positioned  for the ships to rest up against and tie off too. As these dolphins stood remotely    
off the main wharf access for concrete placement was always going to be an issue. With much planning from John Holland and ourselves the   
job proved to be no problem at all.
Concrete was pumped from the land by mobile boom pump into crane kibbles on a barge. From there the barge made its 2km trip to the dolphin     
where another barge awaited with a large crane to lift the kibbles and empty them into the trailer pump which then dispersed the concrete into    the structure. This proved to be an extremely successful process.