QUEENSLAND
Artists Image - Queens Wharf Star Grand Hotel Hello to everyone in the CDPG family. Since our last newsletter I am pleased to announce that we have been awarded two new projects. The first being Stage 2 at the Inner-City Secondary College for Hutchison Builders, which comprises of a sports centre, specialist teaching building and a link bridge between Stages 1 and 2. Essentially it is the same Hutchies team that we successfully delivered stage 1 with and our management team of Chris Mutimer (Project Manager) and Zayne Eyres (Site Manager) will gear up again to deliver the Stage 2 works. At the time of writing this newsletter we have made a start on this project and completed a small amount of inground work. We will be off site for a little while for the precast panels to get installed along with the specialist bridge beams. The second project we have been successful in securing is Stage 2 and 3 of the mighty Star Grand Casino project for Multiplex Builders. The (5 star) Star Grand Hotel consists of 340 Hotel Rooms in buildings IT2 & IT3 from Level 8 to 18, with VIP Gaming, Restaurants and Bars located above, and then above again is the Skydeck which is the link between all buildings. To put the size of the build into perspective, we will be 1 of 3 plumbers that will help deliver the hydraulics packages across this massive project. Travis Richards is the lucky man charged with the Project Management responsibility for this project, don’t stress Trav in true CDPG style you will have all of our support!! I am happy to say that 443 Queen Street has finally topped out at Level 47 after 4 long years! and the jump form system is slowly getting dismantled. We have 1 level of stacks to complete and have 5 levels of rough in to finish on the up cycle and 4 levels of rough in to complete on the down cycle. As mentioned in previous newsletters this job has had some serious challenges along the way, the most recent one being the limited number of site personal we can get into a hoist due to our ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. There are currently 320 workers on site and only 3 hoists with a capacity of 6 people allowed in each, trying to navigate up and down 47 floors and also distribute materials throughout the job is proving challenging. There is only 1 tower crane on the job which is tied up pulling down the jump for the next 2 months. Across the river at the Queensland Performing Arts Centres New Performing Arts Venue, we are slowly starting to get some traction, we have finally been able to finish our groundwork components and with the ground floor construction slab recently poured, we are gearing up to start some basement underslung drainage.
Earl Setches (Secretary Plumbers Union), Thomas McCorkell, Ben Dudgeon, Luke DiMieri (CDPG) & Gary O’Halloran (QLD State Secretary Plumbers Union) at Cairns Convention Centre.
Down the highway heading south, the Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre (PICAC) development is starting to hit full swing for us after some challenging design issues. We have completed in grounds, 90 % of fire services, amenity block rough ins are complete and are about to hit above ground services. As mentioned in the previous newsletter the labour on this job must have a high apprentice output, which is certainly keeping Brett on his toes! with 3 and a half months to go before hand over, this job is going full steam ahead!! Over at Tulloch House on the Eagle Farm Racecourse, the crew is fitting off Level 5 with 2 more floors to go before practical completion in mid-September. Up north in Cairns, Luke and his team have completed the refurb component of the Cairns Convention Centre project and are now onto the new expansion side component working on inground sewer and stormwater services. Let’s hope we don’t see any more cyclones before this job ends!! In May we welcomed Beth Farry to the Qld team, who to her credit has taken about “2 minutes” to own her role your efforts are very much appreciated Beth. Andrew Thompson has been nominated for the MPAQ apprentice of the year award, unfortunately due to the COVID-19 lockdown the awards have been postponed until October, we wish him all the best -we will just have to wait a little longer to find out Thommo! Justin Pitts QLD Manager
Brett Miskin, Andrew Thompson & PAQ Hire Apprentice @ PICAC
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