Reusing steel and concrete in Vanuatu
BPC’s South Paray Wharf team in Vanuatu is delivering big environmental benefits by reusing significant amounts of concrete and steel waste.
Construction Manager Daniel Hautler says a previous project on the site had been abandoned, leaving 500T of unused steel. “We changed our temporary works design to be able to use it for fabricating staging crossheads and beams on site, eliminating the need to ship around 250T of structural steel to Vanuatu and upskilling local people in fabricating heavy temporary works.”
With no local concrete recycling facility, the team deconstructed the existing wharf and incorporated the reinforced concrete components into onsite temporary works and offsite reuse.
“We connected with a local enterprise establishing a concrete plant and they’re using nearly 600T of precast elements salvaged from the wharf to create the split-level site they need,” he said. “Some 400T of concrete elements have been reused in our temporary works, and they’ll be reused again by the concrete plant.”
