STAGING and Construction Area for the Post Stressed One span Concrete Beam

The bore piling machines and cranes have long been demobilsed from site, athough the supervisor told me they will come back when the old bridge is removed and a new one constructed.

So JKR then reclaimed with clay and topped with road quality crusher runs the approach to the bridge as staging area for the concrete beam.
On 6th March 2014, they have started preparing the form-work support as shown in the photo below:-

Then they discovered that the foreground part as shown above is too low, not level, so they removed all these timber, filled the area with more crusher run and repeat the construction of the timber base for the concrete beam formwork.

Photos taken as on 13th March are as below:

So this was reconstructed.
Well I got this info from the workers themselves.

And at the same time the Majawin Bambangan tree is also very sad that her root area have been taken over and soon she will have to be chopped down.  So she protested by giving out the most beautiful red flowers for fruits. Although I am very much doubtful if the flowers will eventually produced fruits due to the very dry season for the last 4 weeks and even if it rains, the moisture no cannot reach the roots of the tree any more due to the impervious clay layer.

This type of tree needs to grow at least 15 years before it can bear fruits..Now all of us have to say goodbye to the ole Bambangan tree of which the fruits can be turned to pickled fruits or eaten like a mango if the species is the sweet type.

CLOSE up of the fruit flowers


Meanwhile, the workers prepare the top of the giant bored pile for preparation of pile cap for the bridge.