The main steelwork for the Visitor Centre support structure is now in place. The next operation is to install the diagonal bracing to tie the structure together. This will be completed in early June enabling the concrete slab to be formed.
Constructing the concrete slab will be a complex operation as firstly a troughed steel deck is laid on the steelwork. There is then reinforcement fixed in place to provide the tensile strength and to tie the slab to the existing Pier steelwork.
Finally there is the concrete.
As the Pier is not strong enough to take the weight of a concrete lorry, it will be necessary to pump the concrete from the loading bay on the promenade. This will be a difficult operation with well over 100 tonnes of concrete being pumped nearly 200 metres along the Pier in one continuous operation.
Elsewhere on the Pier work continues with trusses and beams being replaced and ties and bracing being installed beneath.
Access to the end of the Pier is soon be in place and then the remaining 1000sq metres of old deck boarding will be removed. This deck board will be recycled, either to be made into furniture for the Pier or to be used as cladding for part of the Visitor Centre.
June 2015 Newsletter at http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8a4088db8993613ffc321ff30&id=fb5826be60&e=531273b27b
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