Concrete Wharf.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 55

Concrete Wharf.

An important coal wharf is being built for Messrs Cory and Co. on the River Medway, at Rochester. It was designed by Mr. H Shoosmith, M.lnst. C.E., in Hennebique ferro-concrete. The wharf has a river frontage of 340 ft., connected with the shore by two return ends 180 ft. and 100 ft. long respectively. It is founded upon 200 ferro-concrete piles, connected longitudinally and transversely by ferro-concrete girders, horizontal and diagonal bracing, and a continuous decking of the same material covered by tar macadam laid upon a foundation of Thames ballast. 'Ihis wharf is one of the largest structures of its kind hitherto built, although, so far as design is concerned, it does not differ essentially from the various ferro-concrete wharves and jetties upon the same system which are to be found along the Thames and at many places on the South Coast.-