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Box Culvert Installation Guide

Small box culverts are designed and manufactured according to Australian standards to support live loads from traffic. They should be lifted only at provided lifting points and stored on timber bearers with legs facing down. Installation involves constructing base slabs and placing precast culvert units with mortar and granular materials, ensuring gaps between units are less than 25mm. Backfill should be added around the culverts in 150mm layers and compacted according to specifications.

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Box Culvert Installation Guide

Small box culverts are designed and manufactured according to Australian standards to support live loads from traffic. They should be lifted only at provided lifting points and stored on timber bearers with legs facing down. Installation involves constructing base slabs and placing precast culvert units with mortar and granular materials, ensuring gaps between units are less than 25mm. Backfill should be added around the culverts in 150mm layers and compacted according to specifications.

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Small Box Culvert

Australian Standards Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts


Installation Guide

DESIGN
CM Concrete Products Small Box Culverts are designed and manufactured to AS1597.1 – 2010
Base slabs (either in-situ poured of precast) must be constructed with rebates.
Exposure classification B1 - Live loading to AUSTROADS W7 & T44.

HANDLING & STORAGE


Lift precast units only at lifting points provided (“Swiftlift” or equivalent). Store precast units on timber
bearers with legs facing downward.

INSTALLATION
Install precast culvert units to AS1579.1 or the relevant authority or project standards.
Construct In-situ base slabs to TMR Standard Drawings.
Precast base slabs must be installed on a firm surface with nominally 75mm of sand or fine granular
bedding material under the slabs.
Place cement mortar along base slab rebates prior to installing precast culvert units.
Ensure continuous mortar placement along rebate.
For Multi-Cell installations the gap between adjacent units is to be no greater than 25mm. A sand -
cement mortar shall be placed within the gap for at least the top 150mm with the remainder of the gap
filled with sand or fine granular material.
Joints between consecutive precast units are normally butted together with a gap of up to 10mm.
Crown ONLY installations (not inverted)

BACKFILLING & COMPACTION


Backfill in maximum 150mm layers evenly on both sides of precast units in accordance with the
project specifications.

Head Office: Branch Office:


4 Quarry Road STAPYLTON QLD P: (07) 3804 6622 F: (07) 3804 6699 13-15 Enterprise Drive
PO Box 167 BEENLEIGH QLD 4207 e: [email protected] w: cmconcrete.com.au BEAUDESERT QLD 4285

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