Architect: Toh Shimazaki Architecture
Quantity Surveyors: Bonfield
Structural Engineer: Fluid
Services Engineer: Max Fordham
Week 1
The architect model.
Week 4
The rock substrate has been reduced in level and foundation strips excavated. Due to the rock strata, shuttering was needed.
Week 5
The foundations are poured to north half of the building and the drains are set out.
Week 6
Having installed the drains and laid oversite concrete, the first layer of damp proof membrane is laid.
Week 8
The slab reinforcement is complete and the retaining wall and column reinforcement is well advanced.
Week 10
Half of the concrete slab has been poured together with the kickers for the retaining wall and the columns.
Week 14
Most of the retaining wall has been poured and the reinforcement prepared for the first of six columns.
Week 16
The first of the six columns supporting the first floor in situ slab is poured.
Week 17
Blockwork commenced after the first windposts have been installed.
Week 17
All six columns supporting the fist floor slab are poured.
Week 17
The foundations for the south section of the building are poured.
Week 18
Having incorporated the windposts in the inner skin blockwork, the face brickwork commenced.
Week 20
The final section of the slab is poured enabling the final ground floor windposts to be installed.
Week 23
The first floor steels for the north section of the building are fitted enabling the joists to be installed. The first flor slab shows in the foreground.
Week 25
The final windposts on the first floor are fitted. Note the complexity of the setting out due to changes in floor level and roof pitch.
Week 25
The timber trusses for the south roof are lifted into position, each being different due to the trigonometry of the roof.
Week 26
The first rafters are pitched to the shallow section of the south end of the roof.
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