We’re excited to attend and proud to be sponsors of the 12th Small Bridges Conference next week!
Be sure to visit us at Booth 5 at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on October 22nd and 23rd, 2024.
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Proud Sponsors of NZSEE 2024
We’re excited to be in Wellington and sponsoring the NZSEE 2024. It’s a great opportunity to connect, share knowledge and be part of ‘Raising the Bar with Resilient Design’.
At Granor we are committed to Continuous Improvement, by maintaining leading edge product design and engineering.
Recent Project: Cross River Rail Project in Brisbane
The 10.2km Cross River Rail project in Brisbane is a major undertaking as it builds a second river crossing in the core of the cities rail network.
Early on in the project we were approached with a unique design challenge. The solution required our expert design knowledge of the application to re-engineer our Heavy Duty Slipjoint (HDSJ) to incorporate fireproofing. Something never been done before.
Throughout the project we’ve supplied Heavy Duty Slipjoint (HDSJ), Pot bearings, and Rubber Bearing Strips working with multiple stakeholders in the Unity Alliance as they deliver The Rail, Integration and Systems package or works.
Despite COVID-19 disruptions and international supply chain challenges, our project management and design capabilities enabled us to deliver on this large scale infrastructure project.
Austroads Bridge Conference 2022
We’re excited to attend the 11th Ausroads Bridge Conference in Adelaide.
Come and visit at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
Tuesday, 15 November 2022 – Friday, 18 November 2022
Toowoomba Second Range Crossing
The Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (TSRC) is a 41km-long crossing, connecting the Warrego Highway at Helidon Spa in the east with the Gore Highway at Athol in the west, via Charlton in Queensland. The $1.6 billion dollar project, initiated by the Australian and Queensland governments, is a significant piece of infrastructure, improving freight efficiency and re-routing heavy vehicles away from the Toowoomba CBD. It’s good for business and safer for drivers.
As a trusted and experienced supplier to many large scale infrastructure projects, Granor was the logical choice to help realise this ambitious vision. In collaboration with project leads, Acciona and Nexus, Granor developed a custom Steel Finger Joint that allowed transverse movement and behaved like a Modular Expansion Joint. A custom profile also helped to ensure a smooth trafficable finish over the joint.
The Toowoomba Second Range Crossing is expected to generate an economic boost of $2.4b over 30 years. Granor’s custom solution significantly reduced costs for the TSRC project; both during the initial construction and in future maintenance costs.
Learn more about this product: Steel Finger Joint
New Perth Children’s Hospital
Granor were proud to recently work with Perth Children’s Hospital on their new building works where they made extensive use of Granor standard and heavy duty slipjoint. The slipjoint was modified to have extra movement capacity allowing widespread cost effective seismic isolation for this critical infrastructure asset.
Over more than 40 years GRANOR® has supplied nearly 1,000,000 lineal metres of Slipjoint to projects throughout Australasia, South-East Asia, the Far East, and Middle East. The current SJJ Series Slipjoint is the result of continuous development from the original Series “CC” introduced in 1972.
In the late 1990’s Granor extended the range with the introduction of Heavy Duty Slip Joint – capable of very high load capacities.
Both products comprise a stainless steel sheet sliding over greased PTFE faced elastomeric bearing strip and void-former polystyrene as part of the complete sealed module assemblies.