Eyre Highway

Completed for the Department of Transport the Eyre Highway upgrade project consisted of three major stages each located on the Eyre Peninsula, West of Pt Augusta in South Australia. The first stage involved road works and related earthworks on the 32km Kyancutta section of the Eyre Highway. Stage 2 entailed road widening, overlay sections and […]

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Landwehr Substation & Wagerup Interconnector

Located approximately 130km south of Perth the Wagerup cogeneration transmission line projects included; civil works for 12km of 330Kv transmission line and, 2 switchyards and an underground link to power plant in Alcoa alumina refinery. The 12 month project involved; earthworks, road works, drainage, concrete works, underground snaking pit / cable frame construction, pre cast […]

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Prominent Hill

Located approximately 650km North West of Adelaide is Oxiana’s Prominent Hill copper/gold mine site. CATCON was contracted to supply steel construction and concrete elements for the new mine including; approximately 15,000m3 of reinforced concrete, 2000t of reinforcing steel, design and construction of ventilation tunnel, construction of reinforced earth wall and earthworks associated with all structures. […]

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Torrens Lake Walk

Torrens Lake Walk development provided a new lake edge concrete paved pedestrian and bicycle path with new pedestrian lighting to Adelaide’s environmentally significant Elder Park. The project was undertaken as a stage of the Riverbank Project – Torrens Lake from King William Street to Montefiore Road. Elder Park was substantially regraded to revised slopes to […]

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Tallawarra Power Plant Civil Works

The $25 million dollar Tallawarra 400MW Power Plant is a significant project in the civil engineering and construction portfolio of CATCON. TRU Energy, looking to expand power generation facilities near Wollongong on the central coast of New South Wales, called upon CATCON under the direction of head contractor Alstom Energy to co-ordinate all civil works […]

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Mawson Lakes Development

Civil and Allied Technical Construction’s initial involvement at Adelaide’s major northern broad acres subdivision at Mawson Lakes was in 1997. Our firm has continued exclusive involvement at Mawson Lakes with Delfin Lend Lease. Other major estates include the establishment of the Town Centre, Mawson Central and The Bridges together with the The Sanctuary, Shoalhaven and […]

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Adelaide Airport

CATCON played an important role during the re-development of the Adelaide Airport. CATCON’s involvement included the constructin of aircraft pavements, taxiways, car parks and associated road works. During construction CATCON were required to adhere to strict airport regulations, as well as working around aircraft in a live environment. Due to the busy nature of the […]

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Pasminco Port Pirie PETS Project

Heavy civil works and construction work was undertaken during the rehabilitation of the Pasminco Port Pirie Smelters “PETS” – Processed Effluent Treatment System Project. The work was carried out adjacent to an existing plant that was kept in continuous operation during the course of the work. Major earthworks and the installation of 400 cast insitu […]

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Nettle Hill Water Storage Facility

The Nettle Hill Storage Facility – designed and constructed by CATCON – is a 147 mega litre lined and covered water storage facility for Victor Harbour and the surrounding districts located on the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. Earthworks for the 9 month project involved a 100,000m2 cut to fill, using equipment such as scrapers, […]

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Quarantine Power Station

The 120MW Quarantine Gas Turbine project is located on Torrens Island (SA) approximately 20kms North West of the Adelaide CBD. CATCON were contracted to construct the civil works package including; piling, detailed excavation, concrete works, precast concrete panel construction, electrical infrastructure, conduits, pit lids earthing, boring for earth stakes, stormwater drainage works, plant waste water […]

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