Handrails at Sydney Central Station – Project Background
In mid-2018 Laing O’Rourke approached Moddex to deliver handrails and balustrades solution to meet stringent crowd-loading demands on two of the platform stairways at Sydney Central Station. The Moddex team provided its design and engineering expertise to produce a suitable design.
Challenging project installation timelines in a New Year’s public transport space
Timing was crucial on this project. Moddex was requested to install the handrails for this public transport project in a narrow window over the peak New Year period. By using 3D-modelling, we collaborated closely with our client from the outset to design, manufacture and deliver a solution. To achieve the loading requirements, while eliminating the need for on-site welding and reducing install lead times.
Meeting compliance
Our expert design team at Moddex have the capabilities and experience to work with the most challenging of handrail and balustrade design briefs – in fact, we thrive on them. Additionally, thanks to the skills in engineering complexity of our in-house team, we worked with our client to deliver a solution that readily achieved the AS/NZS1170 C5 load-ratings required in this location.
At Moddex, we go the extra mile to ensure your handrail and balustrade system design meets every project’s unique requirements. Thus, creating turn-key solutions that guarantee your project solution is 100% compliant to relevant Australian and New Zealand industry standards.
Sydney Central Station Time and Cost Savings from Moddex
Our no-weld modular solution also eliminated the need for costly, disruptive hot works permits, on-site cutting and welding. Which also meant less noise disturbance and no toxic welding fumes in the public space. And therefore, far less disruption to rail passengers and staff.
A modular system means components are quick and easy to assemble onsite, significantly reducing installation lead times.
Choose Moddex and you’ll benefit from significant cost and time savings. Moddex handrail systems:
- are easy to maintain
- are manufactured from the highest-grade materials
- gives you greater product longevity,
- have a lower lifetime cost of ownership than any other system on the market.
That’s what earns us our name as the leading, lowest-risk supplier of barrier systems in Australia and New Zealand.
As we like to say at Moddex, Everything Fits™.
Get in touch with us today on 1800 663 339 (Australia) or 0800 663 339 (New Zealand) to find out how, with Moddex, everything fits™