HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DEMOLITION TASMANIA
Client
Bell Bay power station Stator and Admin building Demolition
Project Type
Industrial demolition, Tasmania
About The Project
The Bell Bay Power Station was a power station located in Bell Bay, on the Tamar River, Tasmania, Australia, adjacent to the Tamar Valley Power Station, with which it was often confused. It was commissioned between 1971 and 1974 as an oil fired thermal power station, and was converted to natural gas in 2003,after the commissioning of the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline, a submarine gas pipeline which transports natural gas from Longford, Victoria, under Bass Strait, to Bell Bay, Tasmania. As the power station’s primary role was to provide system security in the event of drought for Tasmania’s predominantly hydro-electric based generation system it only was rarely called on to operate, resulting in intervals of five to eight years between periods of significant use. After the commissioning of Basslink in 2006, the power station was decommissioned in 2009.
Mendelssohn Construction were able to provide the services and skills to achieve the scope within the agreed timeframes whilst maintaining a safe work area for all employees and the public. Just some of these services included;
- The demolition of 9 Stator units ranging from 50ton – 75 ton each
- Internal strip out of 3 level administration building
Challenges encountered throughout project were:
- Working at heights for high level building access for demolition
- Extreme heavy steel sections handling and breaking down for recycling and transport
