Client
ANSTO
Sector
Energy
Location
Lucas Heights
State
NSW
ANSTO B96 – Nuclear Precinct
ANSTO awarded Degnan Constructions the contract to deliver the new B96 Manipulator Maintenance & Process Technicians Workshop.
Essentially a physical containment laboratory (lab), the project provides a centralised nuclear precinct workshop, so that maintenance support can now be provided in a controlled environment to maintain a wide range of hot cell (shielded nuclear radiation containment chambers) equipment.
This workshop has specific requirements associated with preventing contamination of process equipment and work pieces with active contamination being contained within the active manipulator workshop area.
The growth of ANSTO’s business requires a significant increase in the number of manipulator units to be maintained. Check out this video of their amazing OPAL research reacto
The labs/workshop had specific requirements associated with preventing contamination of process equipment and workpieces with active contamination being contained within the active manipulator workshop area.
External landscaping works involved the construction of concrete pavements, car parking spaces, kerbs and gutters and landscaping to the site footprint.
The building is a 845m2 workshop constructed on a greenfield site of more than 2,000 sqm. The workshop building consists of the construction of a ground floor raft concrete slab on bored piers and structural steel portal frame with a plant room mezzanine slab and external works.
The internal fit-out component consists of multiple workshops/labs and an office area divided by partition wall and epoxy flooring and the installation of 2 gantry cranes and a hoist.
