Loading block steelwork
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Frame and platforms of the rail loading block within the reconstruction of an elevator complex.
Steel structures within the elevator reconstruction: rail grain loading block, grain dryer with surge hoppers for wet grain, two heat generators.
Task
Reconstruction of the Agrodar-Bar elevator complex near the village of Mizhlissia, Bar district, Vinnytsia region: a grain dryer with surge hoppers for wet grain, a rail grain loading block and two heat generators. The company’s scope was the steel structures, primarily a multi-level steel frame with platforms above the tracks on which the loading equipment rests. The frame had to be erected above a working track on which grain hopper wagons continued to be delivered.
Solution
Columns, trusses, bracing and platforms were fabricated at our own facility to shop drawings, painted in the shop and delivered to the elevator pre-assembled, leaving only the site joints. The frame went up over the track tier by tier: first the columns either side of the track, then the crossbeams and trusses spanning it, then the maintenance platforms with railings. Lifts were planned between wagon movements, so loading at the elevator was not stopped. Erection was carried out by our own crews in the confined space between the silos, the railway and the steel store.
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Cost estimate for the works
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