Our Projects

Education

UQ – Gordon Greenwood Level 6 Office Refurbishment.

St Lucia, Queensland

This project incorporates the refurbishment of half of Level 6 for Strategic Program Office (SPO). The new modern layout allows for a significant increase in the density of people catered for in the space. Upgrade of all building services including the construction of a new Mechanical plantroom was required to serve the new area. The new tenancy is being fully furnished as part of the building contract.

PROCUREMENT

  • Design & Construct

PROJECT SIMILARITIES

  • Operational Site
  • Scheduling of construction activities to ensure ongoing operation.
  • Institutional
  • Restrictive Site

Operational Issues

  • Operational facility
  • Construction of a new plantroom to cater for the additional Mechanical services required.
  • Modern floor layout and furniture design to allow for a significant increase in occupancy of the floor area.

Project results

  • Project Cost – $ 343,000.
  • Duration of the Project – 10 weeks.
  • Nil LTI’s

Roles

  • Project Manager – Gerard Martin 
  • Site Manager – Josh Chaplin
  • Coordination /Administration – William Struss

UQ – JD Storey Level 7 Office Refurbishment

St Lucia, Queensland

This project incorporates the refurbishment of half of Level 7 for the Advancement Office. The new modern layout allows for a significant increase in the density of people catered for in the space. Upgrade of all building services was required to serve the new area. The new tenancy is being fully furnished as part of the building contract.

PROCUREMENT

  • Design & Construct

PROJECT SIMILARITIES

  • Operational Site
  • Scheduling of construction activities to ensure ongoing operation.
  • Institutional
  • Restrictive Site

Operational Issues

  • Operational facility
  • Modern floor layout and furniture design to allow for a significant increase in occupancy of the floor area.

Project results

  • Project Cost – $ 783,000.
  • Duration of the Project – 8 weeks.
  • Nil LTI’s

Roles

  • Project Manager – Gerard Martin 
  • Site Manager – Josh Chaplin
  • Coordination /Administration – William Struss

UQ School of Psychology Upland Road Redevelopment – Civil works package

St Lucia, Queensland

The project involved converting 10 residential dwellings owned by the University of Queensland into offices for the School of Psychology. The Stage 1 Civil Works scope included – Civil works, Trunk sewer, Water supply, Electrical Conduits, Road works, Fencing, underpinning of houses, and hard/soft landscaping.

PROCUREMENT

  • Construct

PROJECT SIMILARITIES

  • Scheduling of construction activities to ensure ongoing operation.
  • Institutional
  • Restrictive Site

Operational Issues

  • Civil works
  • Underpinning

Project results

  • Project Cost – $2,090,000
  • Duration of the Project – 10 months project.
  • 1 LTI

Roles

  • Project Manager – Gerard Martin
  • Site Manager – Ron Ryan
  • Coordination /Administration – Stephen Cannon

UQ AXON Building – Electrical Laboratory Fitout and relocation

St Lucia, Queensland

The project included a significant upgrade to the cleanroom HVAC system.The upgrade consisted of the installation of terminal HEPA to all cleanrooms on Level 3 of the existing building. remained operational.

PROCUREMENT

  • Design & Construct

PROJECT SIMILARITIES

  • Operational Site
  • Scheduling of construction activities to ensure ongoing operation

Operational Issues

  • Operational facility
  • Relocation of all existing furniture and equipment to new laboratories

Project results

  • Project Cost – $410,000.
  • Duration of the Project – 6 weeks
  • Nil LTI’s

Roles

  • Project Manager – Gerard Martin
  • Site Manager – James McEwan
  • Coordination /Administration – Stephen Cannon

University of Queensland – Australian Transformer Research Centre

Indooroopilly, Queensland

The project involved the refurbishment of an existing workshop into the new Australian Transformer Research Centre. The works involved the installation of a large transformer, fire rated separation and bunding of TX. Works were completed in an operational building at the University of Queensland Longpocket Campus.

PROCUREMENT

  • Design & Construct

PROJECT SIMILARITIES

  • Relocation of specialist equipment
  • Operational Site
  • Institutional
  • Restrictive Site

Operational Issues

  • Operational facility
  • Installation of an 8T transformer to existing building

Project results

  • Project Cost –$325,000. Only variations were client generated and fairly minor.
  • Duration of projects – Project completed over 4 months
  • Nil LTI’s

Roles

  • Project Manager – Gerard Martin
  • Site Manager – James McEwan
  • Coordination /Administration – Stephen Cannon

Building the Education Revolution.(BER)

Brisbane, Queensland

The construction of Multi Purpose Halls, Resource Buildings and Libraries within operational Primary Schools.

PROCUREMENT

  • Lump Sum

PROJECT SIMILARITIES

  • Operational Site

Operational Issues

  • Completion of all 20 projects within operational Primary Schools.
  • Completed all works successfully and safely without a single safety incident.

Project results

  • Project Cost – The value of the works over a larger number of schools was approximately $10,000,000. The works involved mostly client generated variations as schools added work to expend the allocated budgets. Builder generated variations were minor in value.
  • Duration of the project – 4 major schools were completed in the first 12 months of the BER program to the required programs established by Watpac (Managing Contractor) The second 12 months consisted of completing a significant number of post main contractor small works contracts as schools fully expended budgets.
  • 1 LTI

Roles

  • Project Manager – Gerard Martin
  • Site Manager – Simon Meredith
  • Foreman – James McEwan