The Sulb (Foulath) Jetty in Bahrain is located in the Hidd Industrial Area of Bahrain serving as an export terminal for Sulb’s steel products, allowing the company to increase its export capacity.
The project involved the construction of a new 230-meter-long jetty, port apron, installation of a nitrogen suppression system and other associated infrastructure and accommodation of ram revolvers for the loading of DRI pellets. The jetty can accommodate ships up to 180m LOA, 40,000 DWT. And was built using reinforced concrete and combi steel piles and was designed to withstand the harsh marine environment of the Middle East.
Whilst employed at Ismail Khonji Associates, our John Barnes played a pivotal role in the developing the concept material handling and engineering designs to detailed logistics solutions and detailed designs. He prepared the contract documentation evaluated the tenders and assisted the Client with Tender Award. Post Contract he oversaw the Project Management and Site Supervision Services.
Project Focus: Our team has expertise in a broad range of civil engineering projects, including land reclamation, port construction, drainage systems, and associated infrastructure works.
In preparation for the handover of Honk Kong to China Honk Kong underwent a huge infrastructure transformation including the construction of a new out of city airport with rail and road links and development of new towns along the link. Together the ten interlinked ‘New Airport Core Projects’ (NAPCO) was the biggest construction project in the world. Whilst working for Mott MacDonald, our partner John Barnes worked on two of these projects over an 8-year period – the Lantau Fixed Crossing and the West Kowloon Reclamation Lantau Fixed Crossing. He then went on to supervise some of the complex works on the Central Reclamation development and manage the planning, projects controls and extension of time claims for that project.
The Lantau Fixed Crossing, comprises the 1377 metre span Tsing Ma Suspension Bridge, the 430 metre Kap Shui Mun Cable Stay Bridge and the 500 metre long Ma Wan Viaducts and cost US$950 million. The crossing now carries dual three lane vehicular traffic on an upper deck and one lane within a lower box section each side of a rail corridor approximately 45 metres above sea level. The corridor joins the islands of Lantau and TSing Yi, via Ma Wan. Both bridge structures have the world’s longest span of their type carrying road and rail traffic.
John supervised various stages of construction, including caisson, pad and piling foundations, reinforced concrete piers using stepform construction, post tensioned in-situ concrete deck superstructure, and production and placement of precast post tensioned suspended rail track slabs. He was also responsible for checking the designer’s working drawings, the Contractors method statements, monitoring and developing his skills in Project Control Systems for Progress updates and Reports using Primavera Project Planner to feed in the updates into the overall NAPCO programme.
