What a warm week! I hope everyone has managed to stay cool and dry ahead of the welcome cool change today. While it’s been hot out on site, works have moved forward, the biggest milestone being the reopening of a section of the new Albert Road South alignment. Our thanks to the residents of The Domain for their patience during the partial driveway closure, footpath closure and the switch the new road alignment. In some good news, we managed to get the second driveway reopened today.
Just a reminder that there are no works on site on Monday with the RDO. We’ll be back on Tuesday.
Below is our look ahead for all construction related things within the Domain precinct
Overnight Works
As mentioned in last week’s update, there wasn’t much asphalting happening this week, which I’m sure absolutely nobody was upset about.
No asphalting next week either, with the preparatory works in the middle of St Kilda Road still going on.
Aside from the normal works at Albert Road Reserve Station Entrance, there are two overnight works activities set for next week:
Barrier Setup – Tuesday 27 February
Setting up barriers for the Bowen Crescent partial closures (See below) This will involve the placement of water filled barriers along the separated bike lanes between the Toorak Road tram stop pedestrian crossing and Bowen Crescent. These works will take approximately 3h to complete and are not expected to generate significant noise.
Light pole Cable Install – Wednesday 28 February to Friday 1 March
Pulling of some cables to connect the light poles at various locations across the site. These are very minor works with hand-pulled cables and shouldn’t generate any significant noise.
The following St Kilda Road closures will be in place during these works (Closures commencing at 9pm)
Tuesday:
St Kilda Road north bound (towards city) will be closed between Kings Way and Albert Road while the barrier install works are underway.
Access to the Botanica’s St Kilda Road Driveway will be via Bowen Crescent
Access into Albert Road will be via Kings Way only
Access out of Albert Road onto St Kilda Road will remain open
Wednesday:
St Kilda Road south bound (away from the city) will be closed during these works, with a detour at Dorcas Street.
Thursday and Friday
St Kilda Road north bound closed (towards city) will be closed between Albert Road and Park Street during these works.
Access out of Albert Road will be via Kings Way while works are underway
Traffic controllers will be in place to assist egress from the Domain Hill Driveway
Access into Albert Road will remain open from St Kilda Road
Access to Botanica’s St Kilda Road driveway will remain via St Kilda Road
Bowen Crescent – Partial Closure
The partial closure of Bowen Crescent was a bit delayed, but as mentioned above, the closure of the left turn from St Kilda Road into Bowen Crescent will come into effect overnight next Tuesday. It will be followed by works to asphalt the footpath through this section, as well as preparing a tree pit on the corner.
There will also be a drainage connection under the footpath through in this area up towards 416 St Kilda Road. This will involve some Non-destructive Digging truck excavation during the day, more than likely this will commence the following week. I’ll have more information next week on these works.
As mentioned previously, access to 412 St Kilda Road will be via their existing pedestrian access ramp.
St Kilda Road Footpath Works – Bowen Lane to Albert Road
The team are well underway with these works, and as noted above, we’ve finished the section that is the Domains driveway entrance. Works are going to start at both ends and work their way to the centre.
St Kilda Road Footpath Works – Bromby Street to Toorak Road
The three light pole footing excavation works started today.
The footings will then cure and the light poles stood at a later date.
Centre Island – St Kilda Road
Southern Area:
The final sections of acoustic installation began this week, meaning the Chiller plants are nearly complete. There are some final sections of drainage and irrigation connections that need to happen, which will precede the landscaping of the area.
Adjacent to the Anzac Station tram Stop
Works have begun on the centre median to the west of the tram stop, these works will need to be complete before we can come through and lay the second lane of St Kilda Road northbound.
Station Fit out
It’s more of the same downstairs in the station box, I’ll have a bigger update next week
Albert Road legacy construction
As we mentioned above, we’ve opened a section of the new Albert Road South alignment, which has allowed works to push out onto the previous access road.
Albert Road Reserve forecourt and Station Entrance (Works until 1am)
You’ll see the scaffold come down around the station entrance next week, we’ll likely begin to bring it down on Tuesday or Wednesday. This will see works commence on the glass balustrades around the station entrance.
Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)
With the pedestrian crossing point towards Melbourne Grammar now closed, works have begun on the forecourt of the station entrance, this area will sit alongside the reinstated Domain Road, which will also begin its rebuild very soon.
Just a reminder that next week the pedestrian path up Domain Road (adjacent to Melbourne Grammar) will be closed while we start the water main work connection works underneath the footpath here. The detour to reconnect with Domain Road will be via Bromby Street and Domain Street
Have a great weekend
Thanks, Rob
The Botanica 