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Bacolet Stadium - TobagoTrinidad and Tobago is to be the host of the FIFA under 17 World Youth Football Championships in 2001. The Government is committed to developing four new stadiums in Union Park, Couva, Malabar and Bacolet in Tobago. These new facilities will complement several existing stadiums to provide the venues for the tournament. Yorke Structures Limited fabricated and erected the structural steelwork for the main grandstand in Bacolet, Tobago. This new grandstand will ultimately provide covered seated accommodation for over 4,000 fans. The structural steelwork was shipped from Trinidad over one weekend by chartering the MV Panorama ferry ship which transported in excess of thirty trailers, cranes, equipment and manpower to Tobago. The structure, which contains in excess of 500 tons of steel was then erected in three weeks and included an 80 foot span cantilever roof assembly.
Loading Steel for the Tobago Stadium
Piarco International Airport New Terminal Facility
In 1998, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago embarked upon a comprehensive upgrade of the country's main airport facility at Piarco, Trinidad. Central to this redevelopment was the construction of a new terminal building incorporating all! the facilities required to provide an efficient, comfortable and enjoyable environment synonymous with a modem 21st century airport. Given the complexity of the structure and the compressed construction period, the contract for the structural steel frame and the floor and roof decking was let to Yorke Structures Limited. Working to exacting international standards, the company detailed, fabricated and erected in excess of three thousand tonnes of steelwork and fifty thousand square metres of composite floor decking and acoustic roof decking. The project was completed within eleven months.
As the terminal building approached completion, interest from vendors and concessionaires was so great that the government took up the option to extend the central concourse area by an additional floor as provided for in the original design. Yorke Structures Limited subsequently extended the original structure and also constructed the covered canopy for the main approach driveway.
La Riviera
Apartment Complex
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| The 'Ringbang'™ monument recently erected on Signal
Hill, Tobago as part of the Ringbang Celebration and 2000 Today BBC/WGBH
Millennium Day Broadcast which was the single largest event in the
history of television to mark the year 2000, represented a highly unusual commission for its fabricators, Yorke
Structures Limited.
Depicting a 60ft high dancing man on a windswept hillside overlooking Scarborough, Tobago in structural steelwork represented an innovative and unusual use of the material. As such it presented Yorke Structures Limited with a number of specific problems which resulted in the company having to use its considerable experience and technical know how to design, fabricate and erect a structure which ensured the structural integrity of the statue and yet maintained the required artistic form. The final structure weighed in excess of twenty tons and was constructed of stiffened twelve-inch diameter structural tubing. It is designed to resist hurricane force wind loads and the overall stability was ensured by providing massive concrete foundations and stiffened moment connection bases to withstand the large overturning moments. Nodes where there were high stress concentrations, namely at the knees, pelvis, elbows and chest were further stiffened to carry the large torsion and bending moments generated within the statue. Prior to erection, the area was cleared and concrete foundations cast together with the holding down bolts to Yorke Structures Limited's design by the Tobago House of Assembly, Ministry of Works. The steelwork was fabricated in Yorke's fabrication shop in Arima, Trinidad and shipped to Tobago. The structure was then bolted together on the ground and lifted into position in one crane lift. Once in final position, the statue was plumbed vertical, the connections were checked for tightness and the box out sections at the base of the structure were backfilled with concrete. The erection work took two days and was completed in time to complement the concert festivities that followed shortly afterwards for the new millennium. |
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The staff of Yorke Structures gathered outside the office for this picture
following their Christmas Luncheon
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