e-mosty September 2018 Vessels and Equipment Used for Bridge Construction | Page 64

SPECIFICATION OF VESSELS AND EQUIPMENT (Click on “pdf” box to open the leaflet) UNDERWATER PILE DRIVING VESSEL AND EQUIPMENT BEDDING VESSELS AND EQUIPMENT All equipment and vessels were newly designed and built for this challenging project. For this challenging work, executed at a depth of -40/- 43m, STFA Project Management used unmanned equipment, for safety reasons, to achieve a levelling tolerance of +/- 5cm. Kapıkulu Pile Driving Barge and inclusives LR-1300 Crawler Crane Pile Driving Frame specially designed and constructed by Körfez Deniz Construction Co. which is Specialist Sub- Subcontractor of STFA for Inclusion Pile Driving Underwater. IHC S280 Hydraulic Hammer drove 194 inclusion piles (2- 195) for North Tower Foundation and, IHC S200 Hydraulic Hammer drove 195 inclusion piles (1-195) for South Tower Foundation (Rented from IHC through Körfez Deniz Co.) ICE 125 Diesel Hammer drove first inclusion pile at North Tower Foundation before the arrival of IHC S280 Hydraulic Hammer to site and kept stand-by for the rest. ULE (Underwater Levelling Equipment) Alpaslan-2 floating crane and Fall Pipe Barge. 3/2018 STFA provided FEED Design and special requirements to his “Specialist Subcontractor ARAS Marine Construction Co.” for two equipment; Fall Pipe Barge and ULE (Underwater Levelling Equipment (Robot)), and Funda Makina designed and constructed these 2 special equipment items for the project.