Unique restraints and tight working conditions made safety, noise and equipment paramount to this project’s success.
VanPile’s scope of work:
- Installed a total of 53 piles (drive, auger, rebar cage and pour concrete) sized at 914 0D x 19 WT up to 34 mm in length. Sit restraints necessitated multiple splices.
- Installed north and south abutment sheet pile wall to allow construction of pile cap (ground water issues).
Challenges:
- Working within an operational coal terminal.
- Adapting work schedule to trains. Piles were adjacent to tracks, stopping work whenever a locomotive car entered VanPile’s worksite.
- In compliance with North Vancouver’s noise bylaw, hydraulic hammer had noise dampening shroud. Continual sound monitoring in select locations outside Neptune Terminals.
- Tight work space – both south and north abutment. Situational awareness
- Flexibility in schedule and cooperation with client to finish the job in a safe
manner.
- Assisted whenever needed (within jurisdiction).
- Perfect safety record: PTP, FLRHA, critical lifts forms, weekly safety meeting.