A removable cyclist-rail connection that used the existing lifting anchors without drilling into hired concrete barriers.
Hired equipment creates a particular kind of temporary-works problem. You need to use it. You need to attach things to it.
And at the end of the project, somebody would quite like it back in the condition in which it arrived.
That was the situation at the WestConnex Rozelle Interchange, where NON-DRILL was already being used on site when the project team needed a cyclist rail mounted on top of concrete Jersey barriers.
The barriers were hired. Drilling holes into them was therefore something the project wanted to avoid.
Rather than permanently modifying the barrier, NON-DRILL developed a connection that used the existing lifting anchors.
The cyclist rail could be installed and later removed without introducing drilled fixings into the hired concrete barrier.
Temporary works should leave temporary assets temporary
The project may sound relatively straightforward, but it illustrates a useful principle.
Construction sites use enormous amounts of hired and reusable equipment.
Whenever temporary infrastructure needs to be attached to that equipment, destructive modification creates another layer of work.
There is installation. Then there is reinstatement. Then there is inspection.
Sometimes there are repair or damage discussions as well.
A non-destructive connection changes that equation. It is not simply about avoiding a hole. It is about respecting the lifecycle of the asset being used.
That thinking becomes particularly valuable when barriers move around the site or return to a hire fleet afterwards. The temporary requirement disappears. The asset does not need to carry the evidence of it forever.
Need to attach infrastructure to hired or reusable concrete assets? Talk to NON-DRILL about using suitable existing connections without leaving permanent modifications behind.