Casting Of Superstructures in the Construction of Metro


Casting Yard

•Site of any Casting Yard should be easily accessible from all site locations.
•Land should be available from 25 Acres to 40 Acres for establishing a casting yard.
•Good Environment Conditions.
•Approach Road leading to casting Yard should be easily identified
•It should be not more than 3 to 4 kms from working site.
•Canteen and Proper drinking water facility for Engineers,Supervisors,staff and labours.
•Medical Treatment Centre in case of emergency.

Casting of Superstructure

1.        Casting of superstructure is not done on site because of various reasons like unavailability of land space for installing the machinery and equipments, difficulty in mobility, overall work efficiency and constructability.
2.       All the casting of superstructure like pier cap, U girders, I Girders, Pi Girders etc is completed there and is transported to the site by trailer trucks for erection once it has gained sufficient strength and site conditions are suitable for erection.

Prefabricated formwork is used for casting of both pier cap and girders
Casting Of Girders In NCC Mumbai For Metro 7

An Overview Of Casting Yard Where Stressing For Superstructure is Done

 Cage Bed Where Reinforcement of Girder is done and then shifted to Casting Bed for Concreting 

Cantilever Shutter for the Concreting of Cantilever Pier Cap 

Normal Pier-Cap

Girders Placed for the Curing behind the Peoples

I-Girders and U-Girders in the Casting Yard

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