Bunbury Power Station

In 2001, our CEO Rod McCracken was engaged to design the demolition methodology and provide the overall supervision required for the strip-out and structural inducement (Induce Collapse) of Western Power’s old Bunbury power station.

The station comprised of four 30 megawatt turbines and eight 15 megawatt coal fire burners. The methodology was designed to allow for the structures to be induce collapsed in three stages allowing each stage to be cleaned up while the next stage was being prepped for inducement. The use of this method would minimise the costly expense of crane hire and would maximise the projects high priority of recycled materials. Parts were carefully removed and sorted before being sold for scrap. Copper, steel, brass, bronze and aluminium were all segregated and sorted, in all 10,000 tonnes of ferrous and non-ferrous metals were either exported or sold locally.

The power station and plant were removed and completed over a period of 12 months.