Good afternoon,
Ready for an update on works straight from the horse’s mouth? I’m sorry, that was awful, I’ll rein in the Melbourne Cup references for the rest of the update.
This will be a shorter update than usual as the site is shut down for the weekend from this afternoon, with works returning on Thursday 9 November.
- Albert Road legacy construction
It’s slow going with the site shed removal, but they are on their way out. The linear park is starting to really come together with the hard and soft landscaping continuing. As I mention last week, the team are busily preparing for the Albert Road / Kings Way intersection works which will involve six nights of works including profiling, asphalting and line marking. Kings Way will be reduced to one lane away from the city. There will be no exit or entrance onto Albert Road at times with all access via St Kilda Road. Access to businesses and driveways will be maintained at all times.
- Albert Road Reserve Station Entrance (works until 1am)
Today we poured a few internal walls around the lift. We will strip of the internal wall form work next week and then get back to steel tying the roof slab. The team at the Albert entrance are getting ready for the delivery of the escalator and the concrete elements later this month. Works will continue until 1am.
- Station Fitout
A lot of work has been done in the front of house rooms as late, including installing the glass for the customer service desk and the retail spaces.
- Shrine Entrance (Works until 1am)
The last of the architectural concrete panels went in this week at the Shrine stairs. Next week you’ll see more of the structural steel for the mini canopy arrive to site. We will continue to commission and glaze the lift over there as well. As always, works continue to 1am.
Telstra will really kick off in installing their assets next week adjacent to St Kilda Road.
- St Kilda Road – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent
We have all our paperwork back from South East Water, on Thursday we will have plumbers and a non destructive digging truck in Bowen Lane to finalise everything. Following that, we will get into the final road works to reinstate Bowen Lane ahead of reopening in mid November. Bowen Crescent looks a bit like Hosier Lane, spray painted after the services scanning earlier in the week. Next week we will start to NDD and trench the LV conduit on the corner of St Kilda Road and Bowen Crescent now that the island is gone, and the barriers are adjusted.
- St Kilda Road Bowen Crescent to Toorak Road
Southbound side (Away from City)
Today the southern pedestrian crossing reopened at the Toorak Road tram stop. This pedestrian crossing will only close again for brief amount of time when lay the final road surface overnight.
We have completed approximately a third of the drainage through this area. The remaining drainage will take another two to three weeks. This is the most complicated section of storm water. The crew need to demolish around live water valves in order to install the storm water between the two valves as well as the potential to need to de-water if there are any leaks.
Enjoy the weekend and a bit of quiet around the area until we are back on Thursday,
Rob and Remy
The Botanica 