BAC TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
formerly Buchanan Advanced Composites
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Putting a protective jacket around the past... to guarantee its future!
Requiring no heavy lifting equipment & much less manpower, this rehabilitation process does more than just protect legacy steel, concrete or hardwood timber structures.
The FutureJacket solution is a proprietary ‘splinted in place’ solution to restore steel, concrete & timber piles, back to original specs & whilst also stopping future degradation.
This is achieved with maximised strength/stiffness to weight ratios & impact performance, whilst also being resistant to corrosion, tidal erosion, marine borer pests & UV degradation.
This unique product design & installation workflow is faster & easier for contractors.
All this whilst delivering a dual benefit... a structural upgrade and an environmental barrier by elimination of air & water from the degraded pile structure.
The FutureJacketTM system utilises composite threaded rods that are drilled through the timber horizontally to provide maximised shear load transfer.
Using threaded rods through the existing pile timber also ensures a pre-load.
This prevents the jacket ever working loose & thereby permitting water & oxygen ingress which promotes further decay.
The FuturePileTM jackets, as with all other components are manufactured using BAC’s own proprietary resin infusion
process.
This process maximises the structural properties of the jacket.
It also delivers product consistency, whilst minimising weight - as compared to any
other composite fibre manufacturing technique.
Timber Pile
Rehabilitation
Installation is easier!
Requiring no jacking of the infrastructure, rehabilitation can be effected without any interruption to vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
The cost saving per pile is a huge factor because less time saves labour and equipment rental costs.
Incidentally, your barge technicians and divers will thank you because less time will dramatically reduce the risk associated with attacks from underwater predators.
Available in a range of diameters, jacket pairs up to 6.8 metres in length (weighing around 18 kg / Lm).
Jackets are very easily installed using hand tools from a floating work platform - under the working bridge or wharf structure.
