Connecting Rivers and Seas! Xiamen Jiehang Testing Escorts the Century Project Pinglu Canal Throughout Its Navigation
Recently, the century project — the Pinglu Canal — was officially opened to navigation. As a backbone project of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the west and the first river-and-sea canal built under national coordination since the founding of New China, the Pinglu Canal links the Xijiang shipping trunk line with the Beibu Gulf, completely rewriting the pattern of maritime shipping out of southwest China. Throughout the entire construction of this landmark project, Xiamen Jiehang Engineering Testing Technology Co., Ltd. of The Sixth Engineering (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. of CCCC Third Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. started from the pilot section and then took part in the main works across the whole process, forging a solid quality defense line for the canal’s construction with its professional testing strength.
The project has a long construction cycle and a wide construction front, covering a number of testing items such as navigation channels, ship locks, revetments, underwater structures and hydraulic concrete. The overwater working environment is complex, the on-site technical challenges are numerous, and the testing tasks are arduous and heavy. Given the project’s characteristics, Jiehang innovatively adopted a dual-driven model of “regional testing sub-stations plus on-site laboratories”, empowering technological upgrading and deeply engaging in quality testing throughout the project. In response to the special concrete the project called for — with low adiabatic temperature rise and high impact-abrasion resistance — the regional testing sub-stations, closely following actual on-site needs, carried out trial-mix tests repeatedly and kept optimizing and adjusting the mix proportions, effectively resolving the technical problems in the construction.
With superb testing technology and a rigorous, pragmatic work ethic, the Jiehang team struck root at the front line of the Pinglu Canal’s construction. From sampling and submitting raw materials for testing, to physical property tests on concrete, to quality verification of the main structures, the team strictly abided by the relevant norms and standards for water transport engineering, and, with accurate and reliable testing data, “diagnosed” the project’s quality and delivered scientific and credible test results, thereby providing solid and powerful technical support for the progress of construction, the acceptance at each stage and the final smooth navigation, and safeguarding the construction quality of the century project with craftsmanship.
Next, the company will continue to hold to its rigorous and pragmatic original aspiration, stay deeply engaged in the specialized field of hydraulic testing, safeguard project quality with accurate data, escort more major national infrastructure projects with professional capability, and contribute its responsibility and commitment to the grand blueprint of development in the new era.(Zhuo Zhen)