Foreshore Road Port Botany NSW, Australia’s first slipformed concrete road pavement: a 37-year review

Slipform construction of concrete road pavements began in the USA in the late 1940s. It was introduced in Australia in 1978/79 and is now the preferred form of construction and used wherever practicable. Australia’s first slipformed concrete pavement, Foreshore Road at Botany Bay in Sydney, about 4km in length with dual carriageways was constructed in 1978/79. It was a new road serving the Port Botany shipping container port in Sydney that is now Australia’s second largest container facility. The road is immediately adjacent to the salt water environment of Botany Bay. The pavement was Australia’s second major continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) using deformed longitudinal reinforcing bars. This paper describes the pavement design and introduction of slipform paving and the equipment used. After 37 years of service, the paper also provides an overview of a number of aspects of the performance of this pavement; CRCP cracking, initial and current riding quality, cumulative truck traffic compared with design estimates, maintenance requirements and a comparison between its original thickness design and 2015 practice.

• Authors:
  • Hodgkinson, J
• Conference:
  • Australian Society for Concrete Pavements Conference (ASCP), 2015, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
• Publication Date: 2015-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 21p
• Monograph Title: Australian Society for Concrete Pavements Conference (ASCP), 2015, Coffs Harbour, NSW

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Concrete pavements; Pavement performance; Pavements; Reinforced concrete; Slip form pavers; Tests for suitability, service and quality; Thickness
• Geographic Terms: Australia; Sydney (Australia)
• ATRI Terms: Case study; Concrete pavement; Pavement evaluation; Pavement performance; Reinforced concrete; Slip form paver; Thickness
• ITRD Terms: 8531: Case study; 9020: Evaluation (assessment)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01573388
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 24 2015 2:10PM