Places to be actioned
From Engineering Heritage Western Australia
Descriptions of these interesting engineering works in Western Australia are yet to be created:
| Region | Place | Engineering content | Wiki status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gascoyne | Carnarvon High Bridge (Highway, heading north) | Replaced old bridge. | Not started |
| Bunbury, Perth (Kwinana) | Grain silos at ports | First slip form structures | Not started |
| Southwest | Diamond wood chip mill and Bunbury Export Facility | Not started | |
| Pilbara | Canning Stock Route | Not started | |
| Perth / Southwest | Dawesville Bridge | Highest above water bridge in WA | Delegated |
| Southwest | Wellington Hydro | Not started | |
| Pilbara | Hot Briquetted Iron Project, Port Hedland | major processing plant in remote area; two way overland conveyor | First draft |
| Pilbara | Shay Gap town | Early iron ore township; vacuum system for sewerage collection, to save water | Not started |
| Pilbara | Mt Tom Price iron ore mine | First major iron ore mine in WA | Not started |
| State wide | Water storage dam strengthening project (Water Corporation) | Brought all sub standard dams to current safety requirements for events such as extreme rainfall or landslips into already full reservoirs; focussed on adequacy of weirs, discharge channels, dam strength if over topped | Not started |
| Perth | Wesfarmers Energy LPG Plant, Kwinana | Plant allowed WA to cease importing LPG | draft complete, awaiting approval |
| Great Southern | Albany wood chip terminals and ship loaders | Innovative conveying systems, economical implementation | Not started |
| Perth | Submariners' subsea escape training facility, Stirling | Not started | |
| Perth, Southwest | Grid conversion, from DC to AC | Not started | |
| Perth | Perth's trams and trolley buses | Accessed via WA Infrastructure page | Paper on trams uploaded; trolley buses have yet to be prepared |
| Goldfields, Interstate | Nullarbor microwave communications system | Extreme remote location | Not started |
| Great Southern | Esperance and Albany Wind Farms | Esperance's Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm was Australia's first | First Draft |
| Southwest | Silicon Production, Kemerton | Electric arc furnace; charcoal manufacture | First draft page available |
| Southwest | Mineral sands mining, processing and mine site rehabilitation, Capel | Dry mining; first synthetic rutile plant using Becher Process, an ilmenite beneficiation process developed in Western Australia; highly visible and very successful mine site rehabilitation, now productive farmland | Not started |
| Perth | East Perth Power Station | Example of 40 to 50 Hz change over; ash transferred to Burswood Island | Not started |
| Perth | Aircraft Museum Collection | Not Started | |
| Perth | Sarich Engine - Genesis 2 stroke | Engineering Excellence winner 1999 | Not started |
| Northwest Shelf | Prelude Floating LNG project | Largest floating vessel ever constructed | Not started |
| Northwest Shelf | Barrow Island Gorgon LNG | Challenge of developing adjacent to A Class Reserve | Not started |
| Perth | Midland Railway Workshops | Significant engineering works carried out at the workshops over a long period | Not started |
| Southwest | Timber Mills, Donnelly River and Jarrahdale | Not started | |
| Goldfields | Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter | Engineering Excellence Award winner, 1998 | Delegated to volunteer |
| Goldfields | Goldfields pipeline control system | Not started | |
| State wide | Development of airports, runways and guidance systems in regional WA | Not started | |
| Perth | Fremantle Port cranes | Not started | |
| Pilbara Perth Southwest | Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline | Not started | |
| Southwest Northwest Shelf | Wandoo Offshore Oil Platform | Only floating concrete platform in WA, built in a dry dock in Bunbury | Not started |
| Perth | Tonkin Highway bridges | Not started, may have a volunteer | |
| Perth | Hi smelt Kwinana project | Rio Tinto experimental plant as proof of concept; now demolished | Not started |
| Pilbara | Nunatarra (Minderoo) Bridge, Ashburton River | Not started | |
| Perth | Blast furnace and pipe mill, Kwinana | Not started | |
| Midwest | Pre casting yard, Northam | First example of prestressed concrete in WA. Used to build Forrest St bridge in Northam | Not started |
| Perth | Kwinana Alumina Refinery | First in WA | Not started |
| Pilbara | Cape Lambert Iron ore Jetty | Not started | |
| Perth | Railway tunnel under William Street | Key feature being the success of the settlement monitoring and control to ensure no damage to central city buildings | Not started |
| Perth | State Engineering Works | Significant contribution to heavy engineering in WA | Not Started |
