What does the combination of 350 full truckloads of concrete, a 12-hour stretch, 85 Boral employees, hundreds of hours of planning and logistics coordination result in?

The largest continuous pour delivered by Boral in Western Australia in the past 12 years.

Five of our Perth concrete batching plants were involved in a coordinated batching and delivery effort to supply 2,200m3 of concrete to the new Women and Babies Hospital, for client SRG Global, recently.

Concrete & Quarries Western Australia Business Development Manager Ryan Uphill said a cross-functional Boral team drawn from production, logistics, sales, customer service, technical, laboratory and quarries, had been working since early February to “plan the delicate ballet of logistics, materials, fatigue management, mix trials and overall coordination of this significant pour”.

“We had 60 drivers involved in the pour which involved the supply of Envirocrete to the project and use of SmartRock,” he said. “Our lab team were monitoring peak and core temperatures within the structure using SmartRock thermocouple technology along with maintaining quality compressive strength and slump testing throughout.”

Funded by the Western Australian Government, the new hospital is being constructed by Managing Contractor Webuild and will replace the century-old King Edward Memorial Hospital in Subiaco.

Concrete & Quarries Western Australia General Manager Andre Gobett said: “the day was faultless and ran like clockwork thanks to the meticulous planning and efforts of our teams working with contractors across the project. Our people can be very proud to know their efforts have helped put down the foundations for this new hospital that will help care for women and babies for generations to come.”