Activity: Off Campus Site Visit Week 7 This week we were given the opportunity to go and visit a site on Victoria Street that is still under construction.
On Victoria Street, a large area is undergoing construction, where they are building new apartments in the area. This project began in September 2012 and did not start above ground level till January 2012.
Trucks usually bring in the materials such as doors, frames, walls, pipes and etc. when required and cranes could even be used to transfer materials on site. Although today, the materials were brought in earlier and are made easily accessible to the workers.
Site #1
Existing structure is concrete, therefore light weighted material is put on top such as timber
Transfer platform: This was said to be 1m deep, where there are concrete slabs on this transfer level in order to prevent noises from the construction to transfer underneath the operating building.
This building has an existing building , Centrelink, that has been operating normal business hours whilst the area has been undergoing construction.