BOS Building Facing West bar 000 BHP frame built in

000 BHP frame built in Australia under licence from NOHAB of Sweden

concrete surfaces stripped back by decades of weathering and peeling paint scattered across the floor

Bucket Conveyor at Bathurst

Graffiti covers every surface from the concrete to the gabled steel roof

A skip loaded with steel scrap sits beneath the crane gantries of the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking plant at Port Kembla Steelworks

BOS Building Facing West bar 000 BHP frame built inThe western elevation of the BOS Building rises across the Port Kembla Steelworks, its concrete and steel frame giving scale to the steelmaking complex that has operated continuously since No. 1 blast furnace was blown in on 29 August 1928. Basic oxygen steelmaking arrived at Port Kembla in 1972, replacing the open hearth furnaces that had run since 1931. Part of the BlueScope Port Kembla series.