Technical visit to Golik Steel Reinforcing Bar Prefabrication Yard 

Organizer：

Materials Division

Co-organizer:

Environmental Division

Date, Time & Venue

4 September 2021 (Saturday), Time: 9:30am -12:30 pm

Assembly at Tai Po East Rail Station (Address to be confirmed later).

Speaker: Representative from Golik Company

Programme Highlights

Golik was established in 1977 and rapidly emerged as one of the Hong Kong’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of mesh reinforcement.  In 2019, Golik’s Tai Po plant and Tsing Yi plant are accepted by Civil Engineering and Development Department as approved steel reinforcing bar prefabrication yards. Golik Tai Po plant is the only approved steel reinforcing bar prefabrication yard that supplied prefabricated reinforcement cages by automated machine.

Today the stakeholders of Hong Kong construction industry are aware of the advantage of off-site steel bar cut-and-bend. In addition to its most advance automated “Cut-and-Bend” production line in Hong Kong nowadays, Golik has upgraded the production capability of the automatic cage-making machine to produce “double-cage” (i.e. bored pile cage with two layers of steel bars) for bored piles in Hong Kong.

Throughout the visit, the participants can understand the update technology on the use of automation equipment to form steel reinforcement bars operations, quality control and their operation management system and environmental protection and waste reduction.

Registration & Enquiries

The visit is charged HK$50 per participant for transportation and will not be refunded. The maximum of participants is 20. Registration is required. The applicants please fill the online registration form. The successful applicants will be confirmed on or before 27 August 2021.  CPD certificate will be issued after the visit. For enquiries, please contact Ir CS Lam at 91527659.

Technical visit to Golik Steel Reinforcing Bar Prefabrication Yard

By Ir LAM Chi Sing

 A technical visit to Golik steel prefabrication yard at Tai Po was conducted on 4 September 2021. This was co-organized with the Environmental Division. The speaker Mr. PK Lau presented the process of prefabrication of steel reinforcing bars used for construction. The area of the yard is 24,000 square metres with an annual rebar production of up to 100,000 tons.

The steel reinforcing bars shall comply with the Construction Standards (CS2:2012) as specified by the Buildings Department. The steel bars shall be tested before and after delivery to their storage yards and must comply with the requirements on yield and tensile strength and bending performance. A video of the prefabricating process was shown during the visit to enable visitors to better understand the process of cutting, welding and bending of bars.

The company has faced the challenges of high construction costs and shortage of labors. They have taken an innovation by establishing highly automated plants for the production of prefabricated steel components to tackle the challenges and to meet the changes in construction environment.

The advantages of using prefabrication method for cutting and bending can provide a safer indoor working environment, better dimension accuracy and overall quality control with reduction in waste and double handling. The production process is controlled by computer which is fast, systematic, and mistakes and risks free with no constraint caused by adverse weather. BIM application is also introduced for preparation and crash analysis.

After the talk, we were led to visit the workshop. It was noted that very few workers were in the workplace as the majority of the prefabrication was carried out by machines automatically. A large diameter steel mould was set up in the yard to show how reinforcing cages for bore-piles was prefabricated efficiently in very safe condition, and later a demonstration for fixing steel stirrups was also demonstrated.

The visit ended with a question-and-answer session. On behalf of the Materials Division, Environmental Division and participants, we thanked Golik’s management team namely Mr. Ricky Chui, Mr. Lam Tin Kar, Mr. Pat Yau, Mr. PK Lau for arranging the visit. 

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Photo: Group Photo with Golik Management Team.