Good afternoon,
The sun might be shining over Melbourne but it’s pouring here in Domain!
As I write this we’ve poured about 60% of the first of two pours at the Albert Road station entrance. More information on that below.
- Albert Road legacy construction
The surface team have moved into the Albert forecourt area on the corner of Albert Road and St Kilda Road. They have started to prepare for the road works in this area to eventually get St Kilda Road to two lanes. This will kick off with backfilling once the first slab of the roof has been waterproofed.
We will start to decommission the site sheds on Albert Road from Monday. First things first, we will turn off the power to them. Slowly but surely, you’ll start to see elements removed. We will have a small, mobile site shed located in the reserve for the remainder of our time in that area. Hand landscaping continues towards Kings Way.
- Albert Road Reserve Station Entrance (night works)
We are pouring the first roof slab today. We are expecting the last of the concrete trucks and everything cleaned up by about 8pm tonight. We have a handful of crew on site until midnight keeping an eye on the curing, they will be using trowel machines and other hand tools. Next week we will start the waterproofing.
Steel fixing will continue until 1am next week as we work away at the next section.
On Monday night, a crane will be shifted from the Shrine entrance to the Albert Road entrance site.
- Station Fitout
A milestone in some ways, furniture will soon start to be installed. It’s really starting to look like a station down there!
- Shrine Entrance (night works)
We received the escalator this week at the Shrine! We are working on the structural elements for the lift shaft and the canopy for the stair entance. Underground, within the entrance, we are finishing and tidying up the concrete works.
On Monday night, a crane will be shifted from the Shrine entrance to the Albert Road entrance site.
- St Kilda Road – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent (night works)
I am very pleased to tell you that we finally finished the gas connection today at Bowen Lane! After a lot of rescheduling, that is finally off the list. It does mean that the sewer connection which was meant to start this week will start on Monday, and the strata vault will start next week as well. All going well, late next week we will close the pedestrian connection from St Kilda Road to Bowen Lane so that we can start the kerbs and footpath works out the front of 390 St Kilda Road. There is still a lot of work to happen in this little intersection but great to have a few more things off the list.
- St Kilda Road Bowen Crescent to Toorak Road
Northbound Side (Towards City)
With the barriers removed, this second is largely done. In late November we will lay the final wearing course south of Kings way as part of the Toorak / Kings Way / St Kilda Road intersection resurfacing. We do have some kerb works we need to do on the corner of Bowen Crescent and St Kilda Road in November. To prepare for those works, we will demolish the temporary traffic island there soon.
Southbound side (Away from City)
The drainage between Bromby and Toorak Road is taking long than we had expected. It’s looking like a couple more weeks of work through here before we can commence the install of the separated bike lanes. We will come back next week with a bit of clearer idea of timeframes here.
Have a great weekend all,
Rob and Remy
The Botanica 