Design, Fabrication and Installation of Fabricated Steel Guards at QVM Queen Victoria Market, which included carefully removing 35-year-old worn out and damaged Guardrail anchored underground across the entire length of the market. Challenges included: working within inches of the Markets Heritage listed Brick wall which the Guards where to protect from heavy vehicle and forklifts, flexibility to work around the publicly accessed market thoroughfare whilst keeping all persons safe including the public , keeping tenants’ areas clean and accessible at all times, designing the guards to custom fit into varying new ground locations.
Job: Removal of old for new Guardrail
Client: City of Melbourne and QVM
Date Project Commenced: 18th of May 2025
Duration of Scope: 3 Months
Welding: AS1554
Fabrication: Pipe Fabrication Heavy Wall Galvanised Steel
Materials: 75mm N/B Carbon Steel Schedule 40 seamless Pipe
Protective Coatings: HDGal
G’day guys, it’s Luke here at Mechcon Welding Fabrication.
We’re just going to have a quick look at one of our videos again. This is a recently completed Stainless Steel package out at Dandenong at a childcare centre.
It’s a typical DDA handrail system for the younger children in the stairs with the double rail and that lower rail is at a set height somewhere between 600 and 750mm. You’ll only see this at the junior primary schools, kindergartens, childcare centres.
It’s not normally seen on any other public building. And then you’ve got the taller rail or the higher rail at a normal height of around 900mm which you’ll see going up the stair in the video. The material used on this again is a very typical product we use often, 38mm satin finish stainless steel tube material.
The stair handrail was all pre-manufactured in the workshop. There was no site welding. This is a sleeve system, so on site no welding, no polishing. It’s more of an efficient way to do the staircases rather than on site welding and polishing.
The ramp you’ll see also in the video, it’s got a bit of on site welding but again 80% of that has been completed in the workshop. We do a lot of these ramps, we do a lot of these stairs. Our compliance is something we over the last 15 years, we’ve become very efficient following and executing and I think this is another typical example of what we’re doing week in week out now.
