Scope of works
Concrete Place & Finish
Placement is the one part of a concrete package that cannot be revisited. Once the truck has discharged and the slab has taken its initial set, the finish delivered is the finish that remains. CPS crews are sized and sequenced around that constraint.
Holding a programme
A placing contractor is judged on whether the deck cycle holds over months, not on any single pour. CPS carries directly employed crews in enough depth to run several structures concurrently, and to put extra labour on a deck when weather, a design change or a brought-forward pour compresses the programme. Capacity is committed to a job and held there rather than moved to whichever site is loudest that week.
That depth is what makes a recovery possible. A lost day on a repeating cycle only stays lost if there is no spare crew to absorb it.
Method
Placement rate is calculated before crew numbers are set. Deck area, mix design and initial set time determine how much concrete must be placed per hour and how much area must be closed before the slab is beyond working. Crew size and finisher numbers follow from that calculation, and batch intervals are set against the achievable placement rate rather than the plant’s theoretical output.
Where the available access will not support the required rate, that is identified during tender review and stated in the proposal.
Scope
CPS places structural concrete for head contractors and developers across the ACT, Newcastle and the Hunter, and surrounding NSW: high-rise residential, mixed-use precincts, commercial and carpark structures, and civil works. Delivered packages span projects valued up to $1 billion.
Placement is supplied with CPS pumping as one contract, or worked to a head contractor’s own pumping arrangement where one is already in place.
Quality control
Levels, set-out, penetrations and cover are verified against the structural drawings before the first truck arrives. Levels are monitored through placement and confirmed against the specified tolerance before the crew leaves the deck. Joint layout follows the engineer’s drawings, and control joints are cut within the window that governs crack control.
The deck is released to following trades in the condition the programme assumes.
Scope
What this covers
- Suspended slabs and decks
- Multi-level residential and commercial decks placed floor on floor, sequenced to hold a weekly deck cycle.
- Ground slabs, footings and rafts
- Raft slabs, pad and strip footings, pile caps and capping beams, placed to level and finished to the specified tolerance and surface class.
- Columns, cores and walls
- Vertical elements placed in lift sequence alongside jump-form and climbing-form systems, coordinated with the formwork contractor's cycle.
- Specified finishes
- Steel trowel, burnished, broom, exposed aggregate and grind-and-seal, with early-entry sawing and joint layout to the structural drawings.
- Level and tolerance control
- Set-out and level checks taken through the pour rather than after it, so floor flatness is verified while correction remains possible.
- Winter and out-of-hours placement
- Curing protection, admixture planning and pre-dawn starts are standard practice for Canberra conditions.
Other services
Tender enquiries
Structural drawings, programme, pour dates and site access constraints are enough to price a package. Send them to tenders@cpscg.com.au, or use the enquiry form.