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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

Saturday, 12 November 2011

November

The first people to spend a night at Arabella Apartments

Mark, deep in concentration

Loading gyprock

Cruise ship arriving in the Port



Sunrise after the first rains of the season


Jimmy sanding away


Scissor lift texture coating the light void

Ben's shrouding around the scissor lift

Sunset over the Port

Aluminium joinery arriving to site

Mangoes on the tree at home

External paint colours starting to appear


Tamara hard at work

Apartment 1 - Flushed and sanded



Bryn and the bouncer (Steve)

Conor preparing the balcony

Aaron checking heights

John flushing a 1-bedroom apartment







Walkway on the third floor

Neville getting an apartment ready for sheeting

Steve and Chris carrying around gyprock sheets



Apprentice of the year


Kevin, in between air conditioning the apartments


Ben tightening the frames for the aluminium louvers








Looking through the bedroom window in the 1-bed apartments

Saturday the 12th of November, 2011



Ben trying to keep up with Gary