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FRP Boardwalks

Whether you need walkways through mangroves or boardwalks around the coastline, Wagners Composite Fibre Technologies (CFT) can supply the perfect boardwalk infrastructure for you. We have designed, supplied and constructed Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) boardwalks throughout Australia and New Zealand from the sweltering tropics to the burning deserts and snow-capped landscapes. Our FRP structures have proven their unique ability to withstand the harshest of environments while providing low maintenance, long life assets for the local community through durability and strength.

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Benefits of Choosing FRP

  • Durable – with an expected 100-year design life
  • Inert – fully resistant to rot, rust and corrosion
  • Resistant to termites and acid sulfate soils
  • Lightweight, making it safer to handle, transport and install
  • Modular by design so can be assembled off-site and craned or trucked into place saving you onsite time and expenses whilst reducing weather impacts to your project
  • Cost effective – with reduced maintenance and replacement cycles resulting in significant savings over the lifetime of the structure
  • Non-leaching, so will not release harmful substances into the environment making it suitable for areas of high conservation value
  • Plus structures made from FRP contribute to decarbonisation in construction and reducing global warming through less embodied carbon

Read more about Wagner CFT’s Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

Designing FRP Walkways

Our FRP pedestrian boardwalks and walkways are designed for Australian and New Zealand codes, and conditions.

  • Designs can incorporate requirements for mobility or disability access where necessary.
  • Walkways can be designed to take maintenance or emergency vehicle loads up to 8 tonnes.
  • Designs are able to incorporate or fully replace existing structures.

Keen to get started on your design? Download the Design Guide now. Need help with design options? Enquire about a Project Deep Dive with Wagners CFT design experts.

Installing FRP Boardwalks

Our prefabricated, modularised designs make for quick and easy installation. With FRP’s naturally lightweight advantage, it is easier than more traditional materials to transport, handle and install. Once your project is designed and ready to construct, we can put you in contact with one of our incredible installation partners.

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Components manufactured on site, Wellcamp QLD

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Components delivered to prepared site

 

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Components installed at site

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Completed Boardwalk

Read more in our Installation Guide

Our completed projects:

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Designing and constructing a world-class ecotourism experience at Admirals Arch

Reducing environmental impact on Dominion Trail

Scottsville Road Pedestrian Bridge in Collinsville

Sulphur Point Boardwalk on Lake Rotorua

Custom FRP Walkway Materials

Our FRP walkways are fully customised to suit every application and provide a solution to your every need, while at the same time taking into account budget, timeframes, safety, design, mobility access, aesthetics, longevity and maintenance requirements.

Start a conversation with your local Wagners CFT Business Development Manager today about customising your FRP walkway

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Australian Code Compliance

We have developed design methodologies for composite boardwalks from the following standards:

  • AS 1657 – Design for access and mobility
  • AS 2156 – Walking tracks, infrastructure design
  • AS1170 – Structural design actions

The Eurocomp design code and handbook design of composite structures differs slightly from that of traditional materials, in that the ‘serviceability’ criteria generally dominates the design process. Typically, traditional materials are designed primarily for strength, and ‘serviceability’ checks are performed. But due to the low Modulus of Elasticity of FRP profiles compared to steel for example, structures are designed to meet the stiffness criteria and as a result contain large strength reserves.

Wagners CFT also meets the international management standards for:

  • Occupational Health & Safety ISO 45001
  • Environment ISO 14001
  • Quality ISO 9001

FRP Composite Boardwalks

Our composite boardwalks and other structures can be supplied to the construction site as fully or partially pre-assembled, in kit form, or for full on-site assembly. Your project may include multiple components from stairs, platforms, ramps, decking (or grating) to pedestrian bridges.

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Maintenance

Our composite structures are uniquely suited to withstand the harshest environments while providing a low maintenance, long life asset. FRP is a durable material with an expected 100-year design life. Our walkways and boardwalks have proven time and again their unique durability and strength, perfect for coastal, marine, and environmentally sensitive areas.

One of the great advantages of FRP infrastructure is its reduced ongoing maintenance requirements compared to steel and timber. This is often expressed as the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a structure.

What makes FRP the right choice?

At Wagners CFT, we use a pull winding process known as ‘pultrusion’ to create our FRP structural profiles. These sections resemble the geometry and shape of traditional circular and square hollow sections, but they’re made from fibreglass reinforcements and vinyl ester resins. FRP is an incredible material that is stronger than steel and meets all stiffness criteria; with Wagners CFT FRP structural profiles achieving an Elastic Modulus of 40 (E40) which is well above our competitors.

And when it comes to strength, our glass ratio is unbeatable – at 76% glass. This makes our pultruded FRP structural profiles one of the world’s strongest. Wagners CFT have established a core group of primary raw material suppliers from around the globe to enable us to create the strongest FRP structural profiles for customers while at the same time maximising cost efficiency.

Wagners CFT is at the cutting edge of manufacturing innovative structural composite sections. We use a unique pull-winding process that can substitute steel, aluminium and wood in infrastructure projects or engineering applications effectively.

After pultrusion is complete we have our structural profiles in hollow circle, square or rectangle shapes. We then transform these during post-processing into angles, i-beams, c-channels and so forth, to offer a comprehensive range of structural profiles.

The final stages involve coating all products with a UV resistant layer, bonding, drilling, inserting, and assembly. This process ensures our FRP products are engineered to perfection and ready to stand the test of time.

Working with Wagners CFT

When you work with Wagners CFT you can decide to utilise our extensive knowledge bank of subject matter experts from project design right through to installation; or you can choose to use your own designer and construction team to complete your project.

Wagners CFT does possess a full in-house design and certification team, and we can work closely with clients to ensure a robust, aesthetically pleasing FRP boardwalk or walkway that will provide decades of service. From remote trails in national parks, to major thoroughfares in populated areas, our boardwalks offer constructability, durability and versatility in all conditions and are available in many colours and styles.

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