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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

Friday, 14 October 2011

October

Starting the texture coat and painting


Plenty of gyprock under the carpark
We ran out of red paint

framing out materials
first floor carpark


Neville's storeroom. Stay clear!
Unit 1 - completely sheeted

ready for flushing and painting
Ben hiding behind some gyprock
Flo being French

Bryn and Ben fixing a sheet of gyprock



Tim texture coating the wall
Jarrad patching the cladding
Chris and Morgan stacking scaffold planks
Probably the blog's most familiar face. Keron doing the external window reveals
Neat detail of the cladding around one of the aluminium louvers

A unit framed out and ready for sheeting
Another one
Steve and Brad working....clearly
Looking from the balcony of the one bedroom units
Mark applying the acoustic lagging to all the pipes


Up close on the texture coat finish on the boundary wall


John and Peter measuring up a fire duct
Had to call in the big gun from Kadardup to give us a hand for 2 weeks
Paul putting the final touches on the roof
Roy trying to avoid the camera
Paul and Roy

Looking down at the site office, truck and skip bin off the top floor
Neville, Jeremy and Keron discussing the cladding

The Roof is On!

Finishing the roof


Russell working on the cladding

One of the many plumbing ducts

Laying out all the wire and insulation on the roof
Brad and Conor fixing off the roof


Looking up before the roof sheets went on



Corner of the balcony roof
Just more brackets for the purlins
Lifting one of the many beams

Tony locking up