'Vue' & 'Icon' on Kendall Street

I haven’t forgotten you (or any other site). I’m having tummy trouble again this afternoon. I’ll put up this week’s photos of your sites next week. Good luck with the weather.

Singo's tower AKA 'Bonython Tower'

Making sure, December 2017

It never hurts to check twice.

Fresh materials stacked up all over the site, December 2017

Shop assistants and office workers eating their lunch in Kibble Park get plenty of entertainment watching the delivery trucks going in and out of Paul Lane and the long arm of the big yellow crane swinging back and forth across the site craning fresh stacks of materials to every part of the site.

A quick pose then back to work, December 2017

A quick pose for the camera from these workers at the Paul Lane end of the site and then it was back to work.

Access stairs on the 'Bonython Tower' site, December

Access stairs for the workers keeping pace as the building rises up. It won’t be long now, just a couple of months perhaps, before the site and the stairs rise up to the level of the rooftop carpark of the Imperial Centre.

Workers workers everywhere, December 2017

The site swarming with workers as usual. This site and a few others around Gosford are fast.

There are a few sites going slow at the moment due to steep slopes (‘Icon’ on Kendall Street, ‘Skye’ in Hargraves Street) or having to dig great pits down through sandstone to lay the foundations (‘Harbour View’ on Wilhelmina Street) but they should speed up once that’s over. Only one or two sites around Gosford are very slow, usually due to factors like asbestos removal.

The whole of the site, December 2017

I didn’t forget my whole site photo. I just put it at the end for a change.

Mystery object, December 2017

Oh, and what is this big yellow tube? Will it be part of the air-conditioning? A rubbish chute? Or is it packaging that will have to be craned away? No matter how long I stare at it, I can’t work it out.

My offer of a free digital copy of a photo of taken of yourself at work on site stands. Ask for something like: “4^th photo down at https://changinggosford.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/singos-tower-aka-bonython-tower_15.html”. Here’s my email address:

Hail VS concrete pour at 'Harbour View' site

De-pitting the hail-pitted pour at Wilhelmina Street, December 2017

There was some hail last week, not huge hail but about the size of small grapes so it was big enough. I was inside a shopping centre when it fell so I didn’t notice it.

Then I went to the ‘Harbour View’ site at Wilhelmina Street. They’d certainly noticed the hail. They’d been finishing up for the day when it hit and it pitted the surface of the freshly poured concrete so they had to stay an extra hour and smooth the concrete out again.

De-pitting machine up close, December 2017

The de-pitting machine up close. I'm told the operator walks behind it, swinging it from side to side as he or she goes.

More hail on the way, December 2017

I took some photos of their work re-smoothing the surface of the concrete, took a photo of how black the sky still was and left for home, just as it started to sprinkle again. I was just a few minutes from the newly re-smoothed concrete pour when the hail came again. It came down fast and hard and I thought ‘I hope it doesn’t mark my car’. Then I realised it would hit that re-smoothed concrete again and those poor workers back there would be re-re-smoothing concrete for another hour or two.