GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Design, construction and installation of one pair of Inner Lock Gates at the port of Newport in South Wales.
MAIN DIMENSIONS
Each Gate leaf
– height 14.00 metres.
– width 16.60 metres.
– depth 2.70 metres.
– weight 180 tonnes.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The Gates are constructed from welded mild steel plate and fitted with greenheart heel and mitre timbers and a rubber and greenheart cill. Heel timbers are bolted into a sealed, but accessible steel tube to minimise the risk of leakage into the buoyancy chambers. All steelwork is protected internally and externally with a coating of 650mu coating of Sigma coal tar epoxy with guaranteed life of 15 years.
DESIGN STANDARD
BS 6349
DATE COMPLETED
1998
