The above photo gallery shows the assembly of one of the South Bank batch plants from start to finish.

The batch plants are what take the aggregate, water, cement, fly-ash, and add-mixtures through various feed systems such as bins, belts, and hoses to create either roller compacted concrete (RCC), or conventional vibrated concrete (CVC). The plants then feed the concrete into mixer trucks, or onto belts for placing.

They are an important part of creating the concrete foundation for the generating station, spillways and dam buttress, which is an 800-metre roller-compacted-concrete buttress to enhance seismic protection and one of the main components of the main civil works contract.