Good afternoon,

Welcome to this week’s construction update for the Domain Precinct and Anzac Station.

Overnight Works:

No overnight works planned.

Works next week

Albert Road Reserve forecourt and Station Entrance

Next week we’ll see asphalting the final section of Albert Road where our existing access point to the site.

This will require the closure of the west-bound lane of Albert Road and the closure of the left turn from St Kilda Road into Albert Road. This will be in place next week – Wednesday and Thursday (11th and 12th). Access to turn in and out of roadway leading to Ramsay Clinic and 1 Albert Road (The Domain) will remain open. (See below for a map showing the closure)

Elsewhere, the landscaping and paving will continue in the reserve, while the bike hoops I mentioned last week should be installed.

We were also very pleased to this week open up the section of the project between Kings Way and Albert Road South. This area has now been handed over to the City of Port Phillip.

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road

The asphalting will continue all next week as we complete the final pole installations and asphalt the section of the footpath the north of Melbourne Grammar’s Wadhurst entrance.

The roadway itself is nearly complete and we’ll be focussing on the furniture install associated with the dual tram/bus stop on Domain Road next week.

Next week our travelling roadshow of pavers will start plying their trade in front of entrance adjacent to the Shrine of Remembrance, along with the cladding for the recently poured retaining wall around the forecourt.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Reinstatement

Next week at Edmund Herring Oval we’ve started reinstatement works for the heritage retaining wall around the perimeter of the oval. On the oval itself we’re focussing on the irrigation and laying of sand

Rectification Works

The repair work on the bluestone pavers at the top of Albert Road near St Kilda Road have been pushed back. There will be some very minor pedestrian detours while these works take place, we may be in a position to complete the works late next week.

The next rectification works of note are likely to be in mid-September in the garden bed opposite The Botanica (400 St Kilda Road) where we’ll be back in to adjust some of the gradients in the garden bed. We’ll take the opportunity to also do some weeding through this area.

Friday Flashback

This weeks Friday Flashback we’re staying in 2019, but this time a shot from a drone that we flew over the site. With many areas of the job nearing completion in 2024, this shot shows the site split by St Kilda Road and the tram tracks, with the diaphragm wall construction happening up on both sides. You can see how the site was built around St Kilda road – as St Kilda Road was later realigned to allow us to finish the roof and wall section underneath the road and tramway you can see in this shot.

Thanks, Rob