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Signs & Lines and the now legendary Port Hedland Tour!

28/7/2014

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OK, so the image and the title's a little misleading: despite the company boasting quite a large number of musos (Yours Truly included), Signs & Lines is yet to launch a rock band and send it off to tour the country - though never say never...!

No, the 'tour' I refer to was one completed by Signs & Lines' fitters Warren and Mark when they travelled to 'tour' Port Hedland and install signage for our client, FORM. And whether describing it as 'legendary' also violates the Trades Descriptions Act I can't possibly comment either!

All this aside, I managed to grab a chat with the project's Account Manager, Jesse French (one of the aforementioned musos, in fact), who kindly shared some details about the project...

D3 wind ratingThe signage required a D3 wind rating
PROJECT: Port Hedland Wayfinding

CLIENT: FORM

WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE PROJECT, JESSE?: "We manufactured 3 bespoke three-faced wayfinding monoliths and 7 directional blade signs for the client, installing them in various Port Hedland locations. FORM provided the specification for the signage and we worked with them and an engineer to ensure that the signage was engineered and installed to wind category D3 standards."

WHY WAS SIGNS & LINES THE CHOSEN SIGNAGE CONTRACTOR?: "Originally the enquiry came as a result of social media engagement with one of FORM's designers. The client referenced some of the projects featured on our website and since our price was also competitive, we won the contract."

MATERIALS: "The wayfinding signs were custom-fabricated in 4mm aluminium and featured clear coated digital and vinyl graphics."

TECHNIQUES: "The specialist aluminium seam welding was extremely involved. Full marks to our fabricators!"

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The journey took 17 hours... and 1 minute, of course!
INSTALLATION: "Our fitters Warren* and Mark loaded up one of the 4x4s and a trailer and drove the 17 hours to site, stopping off at the halfway stage of the journey. On arrival at the site the boys carried out a survey. The following day they dug the footings for the wayfinding signs. The day after that the signs were fitted with a Hiab crane, and on the following day the guys began the journey back home. They were away for 6 days in total."
*In closing it's also a goodbye to Warren who returns to Queensland - cheers, Wazza - you'll be missed by all at S&L.

Post by Darrel Griffin - Signs & Lines' Business Development Manager
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