Engineering a construction career

“At nearly 50 metres long and weighing 191 tonnes each, the beams were lifted by three cranes, a 400-tonne crawler and 400 and 500-tonne all-terrains. It was like my own personal episode of Megastructures and definitely a major career highlight.” This is how Laura Barnes, Senior Project Engineer for WA’s METRONET Thornlie-Cockburn Link, describes her experience installing seven of the largest bridge beams ever fabricated in Australia.
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