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| September 2017 |
There are now boards of some sort on top of the timber beams on top of the scaffolding at the Mann Street end of the site. The first and second floors are to be offices and the third floor is to be a carpark for residents of the apartments above.
(American readers, what you call the “first floor” we call the ground floor so when this website refers to the first floor, you should read that as the “second floor”. Many of the lifts (elevators) installed in Australia were made in America and have the American floor names and so no ground floor so we have to do the conversion often.)
Elsewhere on the site, we can see three green bins, one half hidden under the scaffolding, and one white bin and one big black one in the foreground, plus more than a dozen neat stacks of building components.
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| Concreting complete, September 2017 |
And on the ground floor (“first floor”) we can see that the concreting is complete. Complete everywhere except the loading dock at the bottom of the photo, which is the back of the site, where the access lane is and the trucks come to deliver more materials to the site.
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| Loading dock wall complete, September 2017 |
We can see the loading dock wall stretching from one side of the site to the other now. Last week photos (click here) showed that little dog-leg section of the loading dock wall had not been built. That was due to the earthmoving machines still being at work where the concreting is now.
I don’t think the loading dock will be completed for quite some time. As we can see, it’s currently in use as a sort of storage area for the big black bin, the yellow lifting cage, the big white bin, the three groups of white weight bags, a green shipping container (bottom right corner of photo) and various other bits and pieces.
It won’t be needed as a loading dock until the ground floor restaurant is open for business or the office suites or apartments need furnishings delivered. Though, if this building site keeps up the cracking pace it’s set so far, that won’t be too long at all.
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| After knock-off, September 2017 |
A lone supervisor wandering the site, after the day has ended, checking and inspecting ahead of the next day’s work.
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| View of Gosford on a recent hazy day, September 2017 |
The cranes of the Kendall Street and the Singo site on Mann Street are just visible through the haze of a recent day in September. The weather this month has made capturing views of the cranes quite tricky.
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