Our Projects

VPP9 and VPP10 Projects

Project Overview

Construction on the foundations and ground slabs for Visy’s White Liquor Plant was completed two months 
ahead of schedule.

Founded on 68 
piles (each 900mm in diameter and 
17-metres deep), this project included tank ring beams, pile caps and beams, machine and motor plinths, concrete tanks, bunkers and bunds, suspended slabs, and machine/structural grouting.

This was only one of the many areas Garry Gillespie Constructions were involved in for the VPP10 expansion project, with a scope of work for approximately 40,000m3 of structural concrete across the site.

Other areas GGC undertook the structural concrete construction were the paper machine, chemical recovery boiler, turbine, RCF plant, evaporators, cooling towers, and Reel Store area.

The 14,000m2 Reel Store warehouse floor was constructed to very tight tolerances (+/- 3mm over a 3m straight edge) and minimum jointing. The floor design was a 180mm slab with SL82 mesh with a 32MPA mix design. To accurately follow the designed underside of the concrete, Laser Screed technology was used to grade the 
sand base. Placing 2,000m2 , 400m3 of low shrinkage concrete per day, construction was completed in 7 days.