BOWEN CRESENT/ QUEENS LANE INTERSECTION TO ST KILDA ROAD/ BOWENS CRESENT INTERSECTION.
Date: 24/10/2022 – 25/10/2022
You are advised that the associated building works need to occur on with a dry run involving a crane set up on 24/10/2022 – 25/10/2022 from 7am till 7pm and as such this notice serves as information of the likely impact of this activity.
These works are a component of the refurbishment at 412 St Kilda Road. The works involve the use of a mobile crane operating from 7am – 7pm and will result in a full road closure. The machinery will operate for 2 days.
In case of inclement weather or delays, if we are not able to set up up on these dates the set up may occur on 26/10/2022 and 27/10/2022
Although the works are substantial, every very effort will be made to minimize impact to businesses and the general public. The following treatments will apply:
• Pedestrian access will be maintained via opposite footpath(s)
• Access to building car parks are to be maintained
• Access to all properties will be maintained.
The refurbishment works for this site was never going to be an easy task however, the contractor will attempt to minimize the impact of these building works and apologises for any inconvenience that may be caused.
Although the works will be difficult for local traders and residents, your co-operation will be greatly appreciated.
We hope everyone has been staying dry and taking care with the recent weather over the past week.
Due to this inclement weather, some of our works have been rescheduled resulting in some out of hours work required this weekend and next week.
This evening, works will continue within our worksite until 10pm to align barriers along the future alignment of St Kilda Road’s southbound lane.
The overnight road works to switch over to this new southbound lane will now occur Monday 17 October from 8pm until 5am Tuesday 18 October with the new alignment of the southbound lane in operation Tuesday morning, weather permitting. These over-night works will mainly involve line-marking the tie in points to the new sections of road and shifting site perimeter concrete barriers.
On Saturday, some works may continue until 6pm undertaking roadworks within site in preparation for this switch as well.
As mentioned in our monthly construction update, this Tuesday evening, from 7pm, 18 October until 2am, 19 October, soil sampling works will occur alongside St Kilda Road’s northbound lane at the intersection of Kings Way and St Kilda Road.
This will require the temporary removal of six carparks near the corner of St Kilda Road and Kings Way and require the temporary closure of the left-hand turning lane into Kings Way. Vehicles travelling northbound will still be able to turn left into Kings Way from St Kilda Road via the northbound through lane on St Kilda Road.
Anzac Station entrance construction – Tram Interchange
As higher winds this week impacted our ability to undertake works on the canopy roof and surrounding area, some works around the canopy and platform next week will continue until 10pm.
These works will include connecting electrical services, utilities, and communications to the platform, installing fascia around the roof and under-flashing to the skylights.
Below the canopy at platform level, glass balustrades will continue to be installed around the perimeter of the central oculus that mezzanines over the underground station.
Cladding will be installed to the underside of the canopy at each end and concrete pouring will begin to prepare for pavers to be installed.
Station box construction
On B2, blockwork is continuing in the northern end of the station box and concrete pours continue.
Installation of steel frames continue for lifts one and two, services installation continues at under platform level and platform screen door steel installation will continue along the platform.
Formwork and steel supports will be installed next week to form up the risers around staircase four with concrete pours occurring over the next two weeks to develop this central staircase.
Shrine Entrance
Despite weather delays, steady progress has been maintained in this location with blinding for the roof slab and steel fixing for the top-down roof continuing next week.
Next week, pile breakback will continue in preparation for the capping beams and main excavation to follow.
Surface Works
The crane that has been lifting the southern ventilation and services shafts into place over the past week was demobilised today in the south.
Over the next week, stitch pours to their base will continue, followed by waterproofing and backfilling to these structures.
Throughout site, from the north to the south, roadworks will continue with asphalting, line-marking and barrier installation continuing in preparation for the switch of the Southbound lane to it’s realigned position on Tuesday morning.
Also through site, the team will progressively lay sleepers and measures of tram track that will form the new tram alignment. Attached is an image of some of the track progress on a particularly nice day this week.
I hope everyone stayed dry during today’s downpour.
The team are crossing fingers and toes for some drier weather, as we need to switch southbound St Kilda Road traffic to its new lane next week.
Speaking of which – there will be a notification about these works hitting letterboxes shortly, I have attached the electronic copy here.
You might recall we have mentioned the road switch in the September and October notification, but todays notification has some information about the nightworks and overnight lane closures that will be required to put the switch into effect.
As always, we’re at the mercy of the weather, but we’re still targeting having the new road open on the morning of Thursday 12 October. To hit this date we will have some extended working hours up until 10pm next week.
These are all outlined in the notice and below.
Anzac Station entrance construction – Tram Interchange
The works under the canopy have moved from a focus on the construction of the canopy itself, to the rabbits warren of trenches that hold the various conduits and drainage for the platform. The second of the ‘strata vaults’ have also been excavated and installed. You might recall from a previous update, the strata vaults are effectively large inground planter boxes that create space under the tram platform for the tree roots to safely spread. On the station platform itself, next week should see the start of the installation of the balustrades for around the tram stop oculus underneath the canopy.
The most exciting thing around the tram canopy is the installation of the first sections of new tram tracks. These have gone down over the past few days and we’ll continue to install them over the coming weeks. These works are all happening ahead of the start of the 24/7 works on 27 November 2022, when buses replace trams and we break out the old tram alignment, and re-build it to connect into these new sections of track we are building inside the site. We’ve included a photo today of the new track sections installed this week.
Station box construction
Not a great deal of additional activity on the B1 level. At the northern end of the station the regular reference to ‘blockwork’ is nearly behind us, as the last of the rooms takes shape. The focus will be on the roughing in of services and installation of overhead cable trays. Down at the southern end the team remains focussed on completing key back-of-house rooms within the station. In between these two sections, concrete pours have been underway this week and will continue next week to pour sections of the wearing slab for the floors in the public area.
Down on platform level, the track slab is being poured through the station box, this will support the installation of the future track. In August this year the Eastern Portal site in South Yarra took delivery of the entire lengths of rail required to install track between Town Hall Station and the Eastern Portal.
Shrine Entrance
Next week at the Shrine entrance over near Domain Road will see the start of the steel fixing for the new section of roof. Once the roof is installed, the main excavation down to the future base slab will commence.
Surface Works
As mentioned in the intro – it is full steam ahead on the construction of the new section of St Kilda Road southbound. Tomorrow and next week will feature asphalting through the entire length of the site, as well as barrier installation and line marking.
In order to get the road switch happening, the asphalting, line-marking and barrier installation will continue up until 10pm on weeknights (and 3pm tomorrow). This is outlined in the attached notification.
There are also two full night of work to switch traffic onto its new alignment.
You’ll also see in the notification that we’ve set out two contingency days for the switch to the new lane, unfortunately we lost almost the entire day today to rain (Friday) if we lose another day on Saturday then we’ll be almost certain to push back to the first of our contingency days. We’ll issue an update email to this group to let you know what night the overnight switch works will occur.
Other notable work on the surface level is the ventilation shafts. The southern sections of precast began installation this week and next week will see the stitch pours to connect these both the northern and southern ventilation precast sections to the station roof. Backfill (and any rolling) wont be happening until the following week.
Below is a summary of current and upcoming works next week.
Anzac Station entrance construction – Tram Interchange
Above the tram platform, caulking of the colour back glass and skylight surrounds has continued this week with work on under canopy features to continue next week.
Around the western side of the tram platform, installation of electrical conduit will progress through the week with electrical and communications services continuing to be connected to the platform.
Station box construction
Forming up and pouring of the central platform stairs will begin within the station box structure and with pouring of the northern roof now complete, pouring of the south box roof will take place over the coming week.
On sub-surface levels, testing and commissioning processes are continuing at lift 9 and installation of lift 8 will commence.
As blockwork on the southern platform is now complete, blockwork will continue to shape the northern end of the platform into additional back of house rooms from the open space.
Shrine Entrance
As we mentioned last week, initial excavation and break back has commenced around the piled columns to develop the Shrine entrance, enabling formation of the top-down roof to start mid-next week.
Excavation of this zone will progress steadily over the coming weeks.
Surface Works
On Monday night/ early Tuesday morning, the team will conduct a visual inspection of a sewer pit on the northbound lane on St Kilda Road at the intersection of Park St and St Kilda Road.
To ensure worker safety, this inspection will be conducted between midnight and 4am when traffic periods are low.
Northbound traffic will be maintained on St Kilda Road during this inspection with reduced speed signage and traffic management in place to assist.
As mentioned last week, this is just a visual inspection of the pit and will not generate any noise or require any road closures.
From Tuesday 4 October until Friday 11 November, works will occur on Park Street at the intersection of Park Street and St Kilda Road to connect a high voltage cable to its connection point on Park Street.
This work involves boring underneath St Kilda Road to the retrieval and connection point on Park Street and will require the closure of the left hand turn from St Kilda Road into Park Street for approximately four weeks.
Access to properties and driveways will be maintained, including Hallmark Apartment residents, with detours in place via Dorcas Street and Wells Street and traffic management on hand to assist drivers with access to properties.
To ensure pedestrian safety during these works, pedestrians may be intermittently detoured down Park Street to cross at the Wells Street pedestrian signal however pedestrian access will be maintained at the St Kilda Road and Park Street intersection whenever there are no works occurring and if it is safe to do so.
At the northern end of site, the team will be applying asphalt next week, developing the new southbound lane of St Kilda Road and installing kerbing that will shape this roadway.
To enable these works, there will be another minor shift of site fencing at the Park Street signalised crossing St Kilda Road next week leading into the Shrine of Remembrance however pedestrian pathways and access will be maintained.
These road formation and asphalting works will progress further through site towards the south with a small vibration roller in use and some out of hour works that may occur once this compaction sequence has commenced.
To the south of the tram platform, strata vault drainage installation will continue.
Towards the end of the week works underway at the MGS crossover will be nearing completion.
This week we have included an image of the ventilation and services shafts that were craned into place last week in the north.
These will be stitch-poured next week with backfilling around the perimeter of the foundations to follow over the next 2 weeks.
Some out of hour welding works may occur at the base of the ventilation shafts however this is not expected to generate high levels of noise.
From Tuesday, a crane will mobilise onsite in the south to begin the lifting of precast panels for the southern ventilation and services shafts which will follow the same build process as the northern ventilation structures.
On top of the southern station box, backfilling will recommence once craning of the ventilation precast panels and waterproofing is complete.
Southern Civil Works Lookahead
Monday03/10
Tuesday04/10
Wednesday05/10
Thursday06/10
Friday07/10
Saturday08/10
Northern & southern stitch pour FRPDrainage installationElectrical conduit installation
Northern & southern stitch pour FRPDrainage installationElectrical conduit installationHV installation – Park St
Southern precast installationDrainage installationElectrical conduit installationHV installation – Park St
Southern precast installationDrainage installationElectrical conduit installationHV installation – Park St
Southern precast installationDrainage installationElectrical conduit installationHV installation – Park St
Southern precast installationPermanent Backfill placement and compactionDrainage installation
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