Finished Model

The finished product. Concrete panel, reo, gutter, gutter straps, corrugated sheeting, and insulation (blue stuff).
Steel Work with fixing plate, safety mesh, sarking, C-Purlins, Purling fixing brackets. ect.

Making Model

1:2 scale steelwork made from mdf. Used sealant in corners to simulate welding. The spray-paint being 'steel touch-up' type, made it look really realistic.
A bit of an experiment i must confess. I made a box from mdf then mixed up some concrete and applies a layer to it.

It seems to be working well!

Once covered, it looks like a solid concrete block, (part of a tilt-up panel). Got my roof cladding in the background.

Building Visit 3

Flour Mill Estate - Newtown

The mixture of brick and steel sheet cladding looks great together. Behind the colorbond the lower 1.5m of the wall is also brick.
The rear wall, 35m or so in length, entirely masonry.

Thus it requires construction joints. The sealant showing signs of age, probably making it the weakest point for water intrusion.

Overview.

Sarking, safety mesh, C-purlins, suspended ceiling to internal office space.

Got up high standing on the cieling of an internal storage room. Up close the junction of the C-purlin and rafter. Also sarking and safety-mesh.


Corner section of the roof, welded join. Note that end of trench mesh is tied to the outer-most Purlin.

Trusses used along with lateral cross bracing to support roof loads.

The inside of the front wall. 1.5m high brick wall with colorbond cladding rising to the ceiling + gurts.

UB built into masonary work.

A close up section through the cieling, shows colorbond, sheet insulation, sarking, safety mesh.

Years of lateral loads on the stanchion have created this failure in the floor slab.


This is not sheet bracing for the roof truss, the warehouse was formerly divided into two parts by the steel sheeting, but was removed. However there wasnt any need to remove the top section.

Site Visit 5

Rippleside - Double Storey Residence with elevator n'all.

Crumbled corner.

And along from that corner......

A large portion of a ledge where brick wall is to sit has crumbled......so it has been replaced with solid timber bolted on.

Building very close to site boundary. Not enough room to build stud wall.

So they are fabricated laying on the slab and tilted up into place.


Pre-fab Warren Trusses to support upper storey floor loads. Limited working space means that only the materails needed immediately are delivered, in this case the lower storey frame is complete awaiting these trusses to form the upper floor.

Pre-fab placement design plan.

Formwork with connecting clip.

Used and Un-used formwork. I assume this is re-sold or kept by the builder to used again.

F17 Hardwood.

Site Visit 4

Westfield Shopping Center & Carpark - Geelong City Center

Carpark from western face, 2 levels erected. Note the pylons in the background rising 5 storeys.

The complexity of tempory supports and bracing.

Air ducts ready to be installed on floor level of the carpark.


Heavy duty machinery required in a project of this size.

4m length of strip footing reinforcement bars.

Column reinforcement rising from huge pad footings. I can only imagine the loads from a concrete/steel 5 storey building.

This pit was part of the previous developement, the solid concrete block is new.

Site Visit 3

Former Carpark - City Center

An overview of the site. The lanscape surrounding is on a slope, so the upper face has been cut away where a huge existing retaining wall is located.

Strip Footing to-be.

Site Visit 2

Spotlight - Princess Hwy, Belmont.

Tempory supports.

There were a variety of cranes on site ready to lift pre-cast panels, ect.





Formwork and Reinforcement of pad footings ready.


Steel framework + gurts inplace awaiting precast panels.