Time for a new thread as this project has now officially kicked off.

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Construction photos to be up loaded shortly.

Preliminary site works underway.

Only a bit more excavation, some demolition and the in ground works to do. Construction of the 2 car parking decks and 4 levels of apartments will then start.

Project scheduled for completion by August 2011.

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Looks like only 4 levels from the render.

Looks like only 4 levels from the render.

I think we are also counting the 2 levels of underground carparking!

^^ :)! Except when you look at the plans, the car parks are almost at ground level and slightly above - so as far as I am concerned it's 6 levels overall and will certainly add a big chunk of density to this part of Hobart.

Another render - this time from the Campbell Street perspective. Courtesy of the Common Ground website.

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Ordex - "borrowed" one of your images to update this thread! Hope you don't mind. :)

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I will get my camera on site for some more photos soon.

whoops. must have forgotten there was a thread for this project! cheers

Not a lot of visible progress since the last photo update.

Looks like most of the work has been going on in the deep pit abutting the Brooker Highway, although the large square holes the workers are filling with concrete in this shot are probably foundation piers. Will be quite a few more weeks yet before this thing starts coming out of the ground.

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An inside view of one of the buildings still on site which I am pretty sure will be getting demolished in the very near future. Currently used for the construction workers cars, by the look of it.

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great shots op1!
guessing you took the first one from inside the site itself???

guessing you took the first one from inside the site itself???

Thanks Ordex. If you walk up Campbell Street a bit there is a row of houses and a laneway between them which runs down and overlooks the site. Quite narrow but it gives you a bit of a perspective.

If you could get into the Hobart TAFE carpark, the entrance is off Bathurst Street, that would be a good view from the opposite side over the site too. I might try that one day.

sounds like a good mission! i'd be up for that one.
i'd be interested to know what exactly they are doing over in that back corner where you can see part of a concrete 'box'...

Man I am good (and modest :)). I predicted these buildings would be coming down soon and here is one photo from the Mercury taken yesterday (21/10) showing the first stage demolition.

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Good to see things moving forward quickly now. Doubt if we will see a tower crane on this site but time will tell, I suppose.

well done op1! I saw the result of the demo last night.
a tower crane on this site would mean 4 in hobart at the one time - it was staggering to think a year or two ago we would even see four projects on the go at once - let alone ones needing tower cranes!!!

a tower crane on this site would mean 4 in hobart at the one time - it was staggering to think a year or two ago we would even see four projects on the go at once - let alone ones needing tower cranes!!!

I know...it would be awesome, but I suspect the one at Hadleys will be coming down soon. So we might have to put up with up just 3 until the Menzies Centre Stage 2 building gets underway.:)

btw, I noticed that there is still 1 small section of the old mechanic's wall left - just at the front. bizzare

Not much left of the old buildings on site now. Spectran are crushing them up and will no doubt use the aggregate to fill in that section down by the Brooker Highway. Given the state of construction so far, the new building might be up to street level by Christmas.

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Quite a patchy job this one. A bit of work has been done constructing various concrete columns but they are quite randomly spaced over the site.

Difficult to see exactly how this build will progress but it looks like they are concentrating on the area closest to the retaining wall abutting the Brooker Highway. I expect there will be a large slab poured right across this section before Christmas so they will be set up to start above ground work early in the New Year.

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Final photo before the Christmas break. Most of the foundations in the bottom section of the site seemed to be finished. Pretty quiet otherwise.

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thanks for the update op1!

A new render from the Common Ground website - looks like the final design has changed a bit. Looks better imho. Overall size does not look to have changed though which is good. Will make an impact from the Brooker Highway once it is finished.

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A couple of photos from yesterday.

Some progress from last time but not much. This is a bit of a slow burner.

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It seems that construction is starting to move along a little more quickly now. The lift and fire stair shafts are clearly in place. Gives a better impression of the scale of the building - admittedly not a scraper but high enough to make an impact density wise in the Hobart context.

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A bit of movement since last time.

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Starting to move along a bit more now. :)

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The slab for Level One looks finished and the "oh so predictable" Hobart concrete panels for the walls are being installled. If all goes to plan, the development should be finished and occupied by the homeless and low income groups by this Christmas or shortly after.

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"oh so predictable" Hobart concrete panels

Hobart shall be Australia's communist architecture capital!

Hobart shall be Australia's communist architecture capital!

"Concrete Brutalism" remains alive and well!!! :)

Just a few more piccies from a gloomy Friday afternoon in Hobart...

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A couple of snaps from last week. The site is filling up nicely.

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Bit of activity over the weekend. The crane pictured below by Ordex on the Harringtons Street SKF Offices project has now been relocated to this site!

Good to see local builders 'recycling' their cranes....will try and get a photo of the relocated crane soon.

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A beautiful sunny day in Hobart to take photos. :banana:

This one is topped out now and apart from some more construction work on a ground floor extension to the right of the building and some roof work on the main building, the internal fit out is well underway. Another 40 odd apartments for low income and the homeless in Hobart to be ready soon. :)

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Topped out and the final work underway. Should be finished by the beginning of June...most of Hobarts recent in-fill affordable and public housing projects are now either finished or close to. But there is more in the pipe line including a massive one for UTAS but that is not scheduled for a year or so. It is still looking at inner city sites apparently.

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Apparently the plan is to house up to 5000 UNITAS students in the CBD. I imagine there would have to be several large developments to house that number.

A word of warning: In Adelaide there has been a lot of bad publicity about some recently built student housing complexes becoming high rise 'ghettos'. Apparently some of these one bedroom units were housing 5 or 6 students, mainly from overseas. Some of these units are extremely small, even for one occupant, let alone 5!

A word of warning: In Adelaide there has been a lot of bad publicity about some recently built student housing complexes becoming high rise 'ghettos'. Apparently some of these one bedroom units were housing 5 or 6 students, mainly from overseas. Some of these units are extremely small, even for one occupant, let alone 5!

Cheers pearcey. I suspect a lot of that Adelaide housing would be run by private landlords. UTAS Accommodation Services are pretty hot on avoiding any form of overcrowding, so I reckon if these are all UTAS properties, they will be well run. Still, it will be a real boost to the cbd when the first ones get built! :)

The building below in Adelaide will house about 200 students. What will it take to house 5000 in the Hobart CBD!

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