PROGRESS AS ON 18 SEPT 2014 - Getting Ready to Install the Prestressed Beams

As on 18 September 2014, the contractor is nearly ready to install the first beam across the river, however the cranes to lift those beams are yet to arrive.
This would be the first bridge in Penampang with a long span beam of this type and would be a very interesting event to witness.

 Right hand bank:  The filling to the formation level of the road is nearly completed. Remaining work would be gravel stones and the premix layer.
(oops, wrong. below is the correction)

This is not the formation level but a temporary filling at the right bank in order to install the 5 prestressed beams. After that this will be removed to re-instated the original slope of river bank. My next posting will clarify this issue. (corrections inserted 9 Nov 2014)

 Left bank viewed from the opposite side:
The earth bank is probably meant for construction access and would be removed once the works are completed.  I hope some of the earth near the waterline would be recovered otherwise wasted when the flood water simply brings them down to the sea.

 RH bank: the concrete retaining wall is now fully completed, waiting for the backfilling behind the wall.

Right hand bank pile cap:  Special grout as base for the rubber bearing which will carry the 5 prestressed beams.

 Filling between the abutment and left hand pile cap. (ooops, this is wrong)

Here is a correction inserted today 9 Nov 2013.
BOTH the pile caps here are meant to hold beams. The filling in between these two are temporary and is meant for access to drag and place the longest 45tons prestressed beams across the full width of the river starting from the cap at the right. After the 5 number of beams are installed, this filling will be dug out and the original slope of the river bank will be re-instated.
----  end correction.

 Meanwhile Telekom is re-aligning their cables by tunnelling under the existing road at the right hand bank of the river, next to the existing roundabout.



 

Close-up of their tunnelling or boring machine.  Note the boring piles stacked up ready to be connected from the machine with a chain-wheel.