General Building Details
Ground Floor
1st Floor
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At 60% completion stage 9 storey 55 1-2 bedroom residential apartments Concrete post tension slabs Steel roof structure Pre-cast panels Ban beam – hold slab up Board pile – for heavier buildings – loading at end of piles Concrete reinforced only on perimeter to minimise costs – 200mm steel slab - $8,000 per tonne Only steel column on the top level Approximately $350- 500,000 $13 million construction budget Up to 40 people on site per day Copper PVC – storm water, sewage Reinforced concrete block work Steel sheeting – stairs form work Hatch access panel – service components With insulation – fibreglass
Fire-check – fire rating (dividing wall – metal stud wall) 90-90-90 Concrete slab
Sprinkler – for fire rating
Extruded aluminium door frames– rubber seal
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9th Floor
Ducts Extraction fans Standard galvanised steel sections – purlins Cant run flexiduct over 5 metres Cast in plates set in concrete
Steel truss Circular bar braces- stop from twisting Batterns to plaster finishes, not studs
Ply used for cabinet and towel rack
Storm water In-situ concrete Brass tap fittings
Single stud wall
Double stud wall – offset (gap) for sound infiltration Steel rods for diagonal bracing
Bolted connection Drain pipe
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Roof
Crane – own footing system (eventually removed by a mobile crane – full day time period) Crane has a counter weight on it for balance
3mm steel sheeting To eventually be installed – solar panels, duct work & anchoring system
8th Level Concrete column stacks – run through entire building and break the span of slabs Concrete on lower floor are thicker and heavier Seams of floor ply – where ply wood joins form work Every slab – 2 direction, post tension Steel reinforcement bars connecting panels
Holes to be filled with grout