General Building Details
Ground Floor
1st Floor
Cara Brogno Constructing Environments Week 7 Journal ('Off Campus' Construction Site Visit)
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