The Coal Loader
Balls Head, Waverton
PMI Engineers have played a major role in this resuscitation project on this prominent piece of Sydney harbour foreshore. Opened on 24 March 2018, the Coal Loader Platform is one of Sydney’s largest publicly accessible green roof spaces. It obtained two awards at the Parks and Leisure Australia (NSW/ACT) 2018 Awards of Excellence for both the Park of the Year Award and the Community Facility of the Year Award categories.
Our involvement on this has been remedial and industrial steel work, both underground and above.
The Coal Loader site is approximately 100 years old and is full of tunnels - some 6m high by 3m wide. We designed for subsurface conditions which were and are highly variable. The tunnels have now been revitalised and re-purposed. A steel frame holds approximately 700 tonnes of concrete above Tunnel One, after three walls were removed to house a performance space.
Landscape Architect
North Sydney Council
David Banbury
Project Manager
North Sydney Council
John Thompson
Architect
Steve Debello
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