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It's a long time since I've been able to get clear photos of the workers on this site. I like those photos the best but, due to the lovely big trees lining the other side of this road, I can't get an angle down onto the top of the site from anywhere.

Together with Hargraves Street, this is the most difficult site in the Gosford area to photograph. But it's a pretty fast-moving site and will be finished quite soon and I'll get some nice snaps of the exterior painters and landscapers and the plants and tables going in on the balconies as the first residents move in.

All photos on this page taken on the 17th of March 2018. Trial and error have proven there's nothing I can do about any strange gaps, changing fonts/typefaces, etc. It's dodgy code.

Inside work has begun on the Icon building site, with windows and doors going in to make it weatherproof and ready to be fitted out with fixtures and, eventually, furnishings.

Gentlemen, with so few opportunitis left to me for shots of you at work on this site, I hope to photogrpah you working on another local site soon. Meanwhile, I'll get what photos I can until that final tools down on this site.


 Vue 

My camera and I arrived at this site at smoko so there was a lull in activity on the site but the gates were open, the helmets were on and it was a hot Saturday morning of hard construction work.

A good sturdy cage made of lots of anchors tying the wall into the hillside behind it, lots of re-inforced concrete facing and, behind that, close-packed re-inforced concrete pylons going down into the earth.

The garage level for the residents' cars is to be poured very soon, as soon as that rocky ground it will sit on has been tamed to the last inch.

The slope on this site, before digging was begun, was on a par with the slope on the Wilhelmina Street site in West Gosford. The steepest site prize still goes to the Hargraves Street site (just along the road from these two Kendall Street sites. The site with the biggest hole to be dug is still held by the Wilhelmina Street site, 'Harbour View'. But the site with the biggest boulders to be dug out definitely goes to 'Vue' in Kendall Street.


 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

West Gosford

 Aqua in St. George Street

 activity. This is one of the half dozen Central Real/Central Construct sites in and around Gosford and they can't all be going at once. Good crews are kept and moved from one finished site a company owns to the next site. This is the next site.

All photos on this page taken Saturday 17th of March 2018. Trial and error have proven there is nothing I can do about the strange gaps, changes in typeface/font, etc. found on this website.
 Batley Street

The Batley Street site from Donnison Street West. It looks like nothing's happening on this sunny Saturday morning (17th March 2018) but I could hear a power-saw screeching and workers were moving about further back in the building.

The final product will be a 6 storey apartment building 10 minutes walk from Gosford station, Mann Street and downtown Gosford.

I usually take all clear photos but I was having a bad morning.

In this photo, despite the blurring, we can see what looks like plumbing going up through the floors of the building.

One of those materials decks the Batley Street site has had for a couple of months now. This site has a very small area around it for stacking up materials so these look ideal for work on the inside of the building.

Extensive views to be had from the finished apartments of 'Harbour View' and the Batley Street building. From left to right: Green Point, Hardys Bay, Blackwall Mountain (behind 1st tall tree) Saratoga (obscured by tall middle tree) Woy Woy and Mount Ettalong, Commodore Heights (most distant) Point Clare and, closest in the right of the photo, Fagans Bay. Not a bad view from the breakfast table.


 Wilhelmina Street's 'Harbour View' building

All hands on deck for another concrete pour.

Pouring arm stretching up and over.

The trouble shooter sitting waiting for trouble, that is, if there's a clog in the chute the concrete flows through to get from the truck to the arm.

Making ready to pour another wall on the other side of the site.

This would have been a great photo if my arm wasn't tired. Thanks for the pose anyway.


 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

Singo's tower AKA Bonython Tower

All photos on this page taken Saturday 17th of March 2018.

The residential tower clad in blue, the Mann Street frontage in the red circle.

The Bonython Tower site, Singo's tower, from Showground Road, right next to the railway station.

There was a much better photo to be had from this photo spot about a week ago. It would have shown a clear shot of the workers preparing for a concrete pour but I missed the narrow window of opportunity for that photo. Only the crane operator and passing aircraft will get that view from now on, now the tower's so high.

It was not very long ago, perhaps only a month ago, that I was taking my photos from the rooftop carpark of the Imperial shopping centre and looking straight across to the workers at the same level. The 3 floors after that have gone up so quickly. Another couple of months and the construction crew will have done their bit and will be moving on to the next building site, wherever that may be.

Part of the reason they're getting the floors up so fast now is that there's little variation in the floors of the residential tower, whereas each floor below it was different and was wider and longer too.

This is the first time I've seen one of these decks on the Bonython Tower site. The Batley Road site, on the corner of Donnison Street East in West Gosford, has had them for a couple of months.

They look very handy for holding smaller materials for those working on the insides of buildings. I noticed work starting on the inside of the Bonython Tower on the 7th of March, when the blue mesh came off the Mann Street front of the building.

What's been going on inside the lower floors since the blue mesh came off the Mann Street frontage. The ground floor, this one we see here, is the restaurant level. Above it an office level and above it, immediately below the residential tower, is the residents' carpark level. Access to the carpark will be through Paul Lane, at the back of the site, and via a car-carrying elevator.

This site has become very hard to photograph since the residential tower started to rise and it will only get harder to photograph. That means very few more opportunities to photograph anyone but the scaffold-builder at work. I'll miss all those great photos of fluoro work shirts against the grey concrete and Gosford's blue skies. It's been great photographing you, gentlemen, and I hope to see some of you on other local sites soon, including Elysium at Terrigal. Meanwhile, I'll keep snapping away at the Singo tower until you've topped out and then until the fitters-out have finished inside and the residents move in.

 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.