HMAS Kuttabul
Quick Overview
Client
Lend Lease
End user
Department of Defence
Sector
Defence
Location
Sydney, NSW
Man hours
13,000+
Status
Completed 2022
The Garden Island Defence Precinct is a major fleet base for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Its primary role is to support home-based and visiting navy ships. HMAS Kuttabul is contained within the Precinct.
*** start of sentence missing from copy deck *** in Port Jackson, Sydney and provides support services to defence personnel. The wharfs are located across the northern-eastern boundary of Garden Island and are used to berth vessels for de-fuelling, maintenance and repairs.
HMAS Kuttabul is contained within the GIDP and provides administration, training and logistics support and is also a major maritime engineering and refit centre.
The Stage One Garden Island (East) Critical Infrastructure Recovery Project was initiated to address the identified berthing capacity and vessel maintenance constraints. The aim of the project was to provide a fully functioning and future-proofed wharf at the northern end of Garden Island (East) through a two-phase demolition of the existing wharf structures and the construction of a new facility.
The objectives of the project were to rectify serious risks in the condition and capacity of the Cruiser Wharf and Oil Wharf, address current berthing space restrictions and provide new engineering services that could service all current and future planned vessels, whilst improving the berthing capacity and the forecasted growth of berthing and maintenance requirements.
The NSW Government issued a public health order, banning all work on construction sites across greater Sydney due to the Covid 19 pandemic. This order meant that the works on site at Garden Island were temporarily paused. When the ban was lifted there were travel restrictions imposed, with a significant number of employees residing in locked down Local Government Areas (LGA’s); hence it was difficult to get labour to site. To combat this challenge, Stowe set rosters for staff and also shifted workers between projects to ensure coverage.
Due to the Sydney Harbour wind-induced vibrations, the wharf light pole manufacturers were required to engineer a counterweight (damper) system to reduce the risk of destructive vibrations by adding mass, which interrupts the natural frequency on the pole.
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