Sitting more than 100 metres above sea level on the headland at the western edge of WA’s Geographe Bay, the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse is an incredibly popular tourist attraction in the Margaret River Region. Drawing in 75,000 visitors annually, and having been built in 1904, it was clear that the lighthouse was in need of
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Built in 1978, West Gate Bridge is an iconic structure that’s played a huge part in moving Melbourne for decades. After thirty years of operation, West Gate Bridge had daily traffic of 160,000 vehicles, compared to the 40,000 it was carrying per day after opening. McElligotts was sub-contracted by John Holland Construction for abrasive blasting
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McElligotts performed remedial construction works during the Eastern Treatment Plant refurbishment between August 2011 and November 2013. During construction, major leaks had developed in concrete structures, requiring a strip of the existing coating and a relining. Our team lined over 5000m2 of concrete with Polibrid, using a reinforced coating system we’d developed using geo fabric.
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We conduct remedial maintenance programs at oil and gas refineries across Australia, putting together maintenance programs tailored to our client’s needs. Our team have worked on tanks, pipelines, walkways, vessels and exchangers, providing services that include: Ultra-high pressure cleaning and surface preparation Abrasive blasting and hand tool surface preparation Robotic blasting Relining Scaffolding access Protective
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From April to September 2013, McElligotts was contracted to work on the Kangaroo Valley pipeline by the Sydney Catchment Authority. It was a large job involving a complete strip and relining of a 1.8Km long, 2.6m wide pipeline. The pipeline had only two access points, which definitely brought some hurdles throughout the project. Our initial
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In July 2010, McElligotts erected scaffolding access to a ship fender along a rail beam. Instead of a conventional vertical birdcage design, this scaffolding had to hang from engineered brackets, welded to the rail beam above. As part of the design and engineering process, we prepared a 3D CAD design for our clients, ensuring they
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In October 2012 and February 2013, McElligotts worked on two separate conveyor belts at the Oaky Creek coal mine facilities. Oaky Creek has been open since 1982, and although the open cut mine is closed, underground coal mining is still operational. For this project, we were conducting paint remediation and structural integrity works on two
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In April 2013, we were contracted by the Caval Ridge Coal Mine owned by BMA, to perform touch up painting and protective coating on their coal stacker reclaimer equipment. Initial surface preparation included abrasive blasting and mechanical cleaning. From there, construction paint damage was repaired and re-application of protective coating systems was conducted to the
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McElligotts were contracted to conduct on-site painting and protective coating on the CAT 7495 Electric Rope Shovel at Daunia coal mine in June 2014. The Daunia Coal mine opened in 2013 and is expected to have a lifespan of approximately 21 years. We had worked on a CAT 7495 before at Caval Ridge, the first
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McElligotts was engaged to restore some existing mining equipment in October 2014. This included a Hitachi EX5500 Excavator boom and an armoured face conveyor (AFC). Some of this equipment had seen use at the Gregory Crinum coal mine and it was clear it would need extensive surface preparation and specialised protective coating. Prior to applying
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McElligotts have offices in Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and New South Wales. We work on projects all throughout Australia.