AS SPECIALISTS IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES OF ALL KINDS WE ARE PROUD OF OUR WORK ON THE COLOMBO STREET OVERHEAD BRIDGE WHICH CONSISTED OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALL STORMWATER SEWERS KERBS AND CHANNELS. We hire ... EXCAVATORS ROLLERS GRADERS ** BULLDOZERS CARRY ALLS Also constructed . . . SEWERS, HOUSE SEWERS, CONCRETE and ASPHALT PATHS and DRIVES. GET OUR QUOTE FOR YOUR NEXT JOB HAYMAN and MITCHELL SUB-DIVISIONAL ENGINEERS, 210 RICCARTON RD., CH.CH. TELEPHONE 47-983.
-- a ' vfl | > •K ■flßw y * > MbllWe R* ■KjvsJ&p■'■«* ,' *”"*■*s~’ n .. ■ ' USHERING IN A NEW ERA IN I RE-INFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION ADVANTAGES OF ■ For the first time in Christchurch Pre-Stressed Concrete used for s Major PRE-STRESSED ■ Construction Job—the Colombo Street Overbridge CONCRETE .1 On Deck of Bridge. 1,330 tons of Pre-Stressed Concrete were used in 216 ■ Individually pre-stressed Beams cast in our own factory Fri Blenheim Road and Saving In Materia .■ transported to the site. BUILDERS! -Greater Flexibility Concrete means up 20% Much Greater Spans less concrete and 80% less steel, for similar are Greater Speed oF ARCHITECTS! Erection Pre-Stressed Concrete lends itself to new in Most Cases. forms of structure previously economically Impossible. Greater Economy. Complete |A wA 9 d| JrA AIA
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29260, 19 July 1960, Page 18
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