Good afternoon everyone,

It’s time again for our weekly look ahead for all things construction related in the Domain precinct.
A reminder that next week is an RDO – enjoy the peace and quiet before we return to site again next Tuesday.

Overnight Works:

• Next week we’re kicking off the works on the southbound lane of St Kilda Road. The focus will be on asphalting the section of road that will be the future left turn lane from St Kilda Road into Domain Road. While we’ve got the asphalters out and about, we’ll get them to do a few other smaller sections around site – including the bike lane adjacent to the Albert Road Reserve entrance
• The following week we’ll switch our focus to the Northbound lane – asphalting the section between the Toorak Road Tram stop and Bowen Lane. This will also mean we remove the traffic barriers on the centre island median.

I’ve attached the construction notice here for anyone who may have missed it.

I’d love to confidently state that this will be the last of our overnight works – but from past experience there are always little bits and pieces that we need to do to finish the job, so I won’t make such a bold statement.
However – this is the last big section of asphalting that we have to do – a welcome piece of news I’m sure!

Works this week

Albert Road Reserve forecourt and Station Entrance  (Works until 1am)

We’ll be removing scaffolding around the lift shaft next week allowing us to get in and do the last little bits of waterproofing and backfilling around the lifts. Over at the South African Soldiers’ Memorial, construction is going well, next week the team will be working on the central obelisk.  Next week we’ll also be doing some paving around the future bus stop on this side of the road, and finishing off some of the drainage installation .

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)

The electrical and plumbing connections into the station are now complete, so we’ll install the services cabinet on this side of the road (starting with the concrete foundations) The retaining wall will also resume construction now that the in ground services are complete through this area.

The crane I promised last week will now arrive next week to remove the builders lift down to the concourse level. This will trigger the removal of a lot of the white covered walkways in and around site.
Out on Domain Road we’ve installed the footings for the tram poles, while the granular base is down for the new tram stop, and we expect to be laying concrete next week for the stop.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Demolition

The hammers are out in force at the moment breaking up the surface of Edmund Herring Oval. They’ve made some good progress and will be back again next week to resume. There will be a day or so respite when we switch over to loading out the broken up concrete to remove from site.

Centre Island – St Kilda Road
Expect to see a real change in scenery through this area next week, as we’re looking at laying grass mid-week. Later in the week we’ll also see the low level planting going in – and we’ll also take the opportunity to remove the plants in front of Botanica that haven’t fared so well and replace them with fresh stock.

Friday Flashback

With the Shrine entrance making great progress, todays flashback takes us way back to October 2020, when we were excavating down to the concourse level for the Shrine entrance, adjacent to the old acoustic shed. Rest assured the door you can see in the side of the shed was sealed off from the inside!

Have a great weekend,

Thanks, Rob