Slab Cutting lake picking out concrete walls streaked

picking out concrete walls streaked with decay and a ceiling threaded with pipes and conduits that once served a working industrial plant

Precision engineering for racecourse totalisator systems once ran the length of this room

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

The instrument was already here when the building operated as a public lodging and group training facility from around 1994

with engine RPM to the left and propeller pitch to the right

Slab Cutting lake picking out concrete walls streakedA steel slab taken mid cut, molten sparks cascading in every direction, the scale of the operation filling the frame. This is the basic oxygen and continuous casting era of Port Kembla Steelworks, where slabs produced from 200 250 tonne BOS vessels move through the plant as flat steel destined for domestic and export markets. Australia's largest crude steel production plant, photographed in 2016. Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series.