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Port Hedland, Western Australia, Australia
Arabella Apartments is Wightman Building Company's current construction project. Located in Port Hedland, Western Australia, the 4 storey building consists of 2 ground floor commercial tenancies, 14 x two bedroom apartments, 6 x one bedroom apartments and 29 parking bays spread over two floors.
Due to the cyclonic issues involved with building in the North West of Australia, Arabella Apartments will be a complete and solid concrete structure, containing over 1500 cubic metres of concrete. The walls will be made of AFS LOGICWALL, which is a permanent formwork structural concrete walling system and externally lined with varying products.

Construction begun on the 2nd of March 2011 and is scheduled for completion in February 2012. The progress of this project will be updated throughout this blog.

Further information can be found at www.wightmanbuilding.com.au

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

August/September

Keron and Brad
One floor to go
Dusk time on the top slab
Opening up the ramp
Unloading all the formwork in Wedgefield
Ben rigging the laod
The Big RIGger
Sunrise
Ben chaining up some steel

The beginning of the external wall cladding
The view from one of the 2 bedroom balcony's
Gary and Bryn discussing how straight the walls are

Niza, Brad and Steve standing one of the last walls

View from Unit 20's balcony
Jarvis studying the plans
Chris moving around more scaffold
With the help from our new French labourer
Bryn checking the line of a wall
Conner cutting some track for the AFS walls
View from the bedroom in Unit 15
Steve setting out the roof!
Russel looking happy
Metres and metres of cables for the electricians to run
Living/Dining area in Unit 13
Unit 12 balcony
John plastering away
Jimmy hiding in the corner
Western elevation
Bryn and Neville on the top floor scaffold
26 tonne of roof steel
Looking down Cristie's Lane