That bloody NDD truck will be there AGAIN tonight. Call 1800 105 105 if you want to be moved
Welcome to the stakeholder lookahead on a sparkling Friday afternoon.
Lets jump right into the lookahead for construction next week in the precinct:
Overnight Works Lookahead
We’re progressing well on our works to return St Kilda Road to two lanes in each direction.
Last night we got a the initial layer of asphalt down on the south bound lane, while also standing two of the three light poles between Bromby and Toorak Road
Tonight we’ll be working in both the southbound lanes and the northbound lanes.
We’ll also have the final NDD works taking place tonight.
As always I’ve got a night-by-night snapshot below – And I’ll advise if this changes significantly.
Concrete Pour
Tonight we’ll have a concrete pour for the barrier kerb between the road and the tram tracks – it’s not a big pour, but we’ll need to do it while traffic is not running to ensure that we can get the pump and trucks in place. This will be done at the start of the road closure.
Chiller Plant Commissioning
The electrical work within the southernmost chiller plant is will be completed during this evenings shift.
Albert Road Reserve forecourt and Station Entrance (Works until 1am)
The South African Soldiers Memorial remains the feature piece of works at the moment, with the concrete formwork happening now for where the central obelisk go. Some of the stone will be coming out of storage next week and making its way to site.
The last of the lifts on the Albert Road Reserve side are finishing their internal commissioning, in what is a great milestone. The pile breakout around the perimeter of the entrance is still happening, there wasn’t much action this week, but it will resume next week.
St Kilda Road Footpath Works – Bowen Lane to Albert Road
The 20th March remains a target date for us to reopen this pathway. The lost day to rain this week didn’t help us, but we’re still well on track to complete this area ahead of the original timeframe. I’ve attached a photo of some of the handiwork of the team, who were in there grouting areas this morning.
Bowen Crescent – Partial Closure and Footpath Works
Yesterday we laid the asphalt in front of 412 St Kilda Road, while a tad further up in front of 416 St Kilda Road, the sucker trucks are still on their extended farewell tour for this part of the site. As I mentioned above, we should have the NDD works finished this evening, at which point the drainage crews will be able to slot the new drainage connection in amongst the myriad of services in this area.
We’ll aim to have this installed early next week, before backfilling, completing the asphalting, and then removing the site fencing and reopening Bowen Crescent left turn off
This should all be done by the end of next week.
Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)
I’d estimate Domain Road has now shrunk by around 7% – as we’ve now completely demolished the roadway between St Kilda Road and Edmund Herring Oval. The good news is that we’ll soon start building it back up again, including installing the new tram track connection from St Kilda Road into Domain Road and building a new tram stop.
As I mentioned last week, we’ve begun the excavation and ground preparation for the station forecourt at the entrance adjacent to the Shrine of Remembrance.
The footpath closure along Domain Road remains in place for the time being.
St Kilda Road Footpath Works – Bromby Street to Toorak Road
We’ve got one more light pole to install tonight (Closest to Toorak Road) After which we will hand them over to CitiPower to connect them into their network. CitiPower will advise of what works they need to do, and when they need to do them.
Centre Island – St Kilda Road
Southern Area:
Drainage continues to be the focus within the central island, It will be some minor drainage works around the southern ventilation shafts in March, before we head in to the landscaping, and ultimately the tree planting next month.
Adjacent to the Anzac Station tram Stop
The new retaining wall adjacent to the tram stop will be poured tonight. We’ll then asphalt this final section of St Kilda Road (See below) before coming back at a later date to landscape and prepare for tree planting.
Station Fit out
Downstairs in the station fitout space, we are nearing the end of the electrical connection work on the concourse level – it might not sound like much – but there are a maze of cable trays and kilometres of cables installed down on oncourse and platform level, so this represents quite a significant achievements.
The Botanica 