New Building Construction Progress
Follow along week by week as our new Junior Learning Centre and Administration Offices are constructed.
Week 1 - 3: 6th October - 24th October
Weather has been breezy the past month, with clear skies to help the build along. We can finally visualise its structure and layout - great progress! Recent developments include:
▪️Completed wall framing, as have most of the steel works
▪️Delivered windows set to be installed in the coming weeks
▪️Established main services under the main driveway with electricity to be added to the main switchboard next week
▪️Completed civil works around the outside of the building ready for concrete paths to be poured.
Week 12 - 16: 23rd July - 26th August
The weather has not been kind to us in the last month, making building progress quite difficult. However, the works that have been occurring include:
▪️Upper-level cement slab has been poured
▪️Drainage works
▪️Landscape preparations
▪️We farewelled rooms PA7 and PA8.
Week 11: 16th - 22nd July
▪️ Lower-level cement slab has been poured
▪️Temporary retaining wall built
▪️Services pipes (water, electricity) roughed in on the upper-level.
Week 7: 18th - 24th June
▪️Screw pile placement discovered a septic tank, which had to be removed
▪️Screw pile placement concluded
▪️Soil replacement to cover screw piles took place
Week 6: 11th - 17th June
▪️Stormwater trenches continued to be dug
▪️The 'envelope' of the building continued
▪️Screw pile placement commenced
Week 5: 4th - 10th June
▪️Stormwater trenches continued to be dug
▪️The 'envelope' of the building continued
▪️The building site area continued to be prepped for screw piles which will be placed in the coming weeks
Week 4: 28th May - 3rd June
▪️60 truckloads of dirt arrived
▪️Trenches for stormwater and sewage were dug
▪️ The 'envelope' of the building was laid out
Week 2 and 3: 14th - 27th May
▪️The site sheds arrived
▪️Site preparation continued
▪️Staff car park asphalt removed
Week 1: 7th - 13th May
▪️The site was secured
▪️Trucks, equipment and site sheds arrived on site
▪️Concrete from around the PA building and the car park was removed
▪️Bollards from the oval removed
▪️Trees removed (for every tree removed, at least 3 will be planted on site in its place)