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Port Botany Expansion, Sydney
Douglas Partners engineers completed an extensive programme of geotechnical investigations and environmental sampling for a container terminal at Port Botany after being awarded the contract by Sydney Ports Corporation.
The new five berth container terminal will cover approximately 60 hectares with 1,850km of quay length along the north-eastern shores of Botany Bay (Port Botany), 12km south of Sydney's CBD.
The design, construction, fit-out and commission is expected to take about five years to complete and will continue through to 2011. It is expected that by 2025 the expanded port will have injected more than $16 Billion into the NSW economy.
The works include a new container terminal, construction of new seawalls, dredging and reclamation, pavements, roads, new shipping and tug boat berths and a public boat ramp. DP investigations started late January 2006 and were completed late August 2006.
DP engineers will continue to advise Sydney Ports during the planning and tendering stages, and will be involved throughout the construction process.
N.B. Image (left) Artist impression of Port Botany terminal, courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation and (right) Ground Test drilling rig, mounted on top of a jack-up barge, used by DP engineers to continue investigations in most weather conditions on the bay.
