Project South Port dock Reconstruction Eilat Port
Client: Israel Ports Company
Project description
As part of this project, Phase B work was carried out on the restoration of the main dock in the port of Eilat. The main platform, which is about 530 meters long, as part of the project the southern part was restored in a section of about 190 meters long and about 17.5 meters wide.
New concrete pile (dipping wall) installations was carried out. Pile work was done with protective sleeves. The execution is carried out using the bentonite method in order to protect the sides of the borehole until the completion of the pile, including the cast of the iron.
Restoration of the platform dock. The docks width Beams (In models of about 4.3 meters) rely on Piles and concrete pile heads After the dock's platform plates have been dismantled, Restoration of beams is carried out across the platform and to the heads pile on axes 1-18 is carried out using circumferential quarrying. Rehabilitation and thickening of existing piles.
The piles were restored at the top from the bottom of the existing beams to a level of 1 meter in the water in order to create a harness of the piles to the platform beams. The work also included concrete castings in underwater molds.
Main activities in the project
- Drilling and casting piles at the site in the back line of the dock.
- Beam heads of Piles.
- Fixed ground anchors with double protection against corrosion.
- Replacement of platform docks plates.
- Rehabilitation and thickening beams width docks (each c. 4.30 m).
- Rehabilitation and thickening of existing piles, from the bottom of the beam to the level of -0 m.
- Rehabilitation in sprayed concreteon the bottom of the seafront beam.
- Treatment and replacement of existing crane strips in the middle and western beam.
- Replacement of rubber shields on the dock platform.
- Steel beams for connecting existing piles.
- Various works in the port areas Including a marine excavation in the shallow water Dock. Treatment of existing stone slopes.Making concrete mattresses at the bottom of the platform.
