Restoration and fitout of a double storey heritage listed 1880’s building in North Melbourne. New building at rear, comprising of under ground lecture theatre, ground level amphitheatre, and teaching lounge.
Awards:
Master Builders Excellence in Construction Awards 2012
Construction of Commercial Buildings ($15M – $20M)
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Fitout of an existing building for the purpose of blood processing, production, sampling and administration for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. The facility is the Victorian and Tasmanian Principal Site (VTPS) of the ARCBS. The scope included all fitout and services, including the provision of all new plant and equipment to approximately 16,500m2 with a Basement, Ground Floor, First Floor and Second Floor. Consisting of Offices, staff breakout and meeting rooms, Reception, Laboratories, warehousing, Cool & Freezer rooms, Plant areas and landscaping.
Awards:
Construction of Commercial Buildings $30M-$80M
MBAV Master Builder of the Year 2012
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The 39,000 sqm store (equivalent to 20 football fields) with car parking for 1775 cars and 2.5 km of shopping, sits on a 2.3 hectare site and is located in Tempe – South West of Sydney CBD.
The two level rectangular shaped building comprises:
- A bulky goods showroom
- Unlicensed restaurant (approximate capacity for 750 people)
- Children’s play area
- Warehouse
- Swedish food market
- Office space
- Public amenities and loading dock.
The project is unique in that it was constructed on an old rubbish tip site. A seven hundred metre methane gas wall was constructed to allow ventilation of the methane gases underneath a portion of the new building.
The existing heritage listed ATECO building and clock tower has been retained for use as IKEA’s headquarters, which will ensure the local character and visual amenity of the area is conserved. The project design is also highly focused on encouraging the pedestrian and cycle traffic to IKEA through the use of regional cycle paths through the site.
Demolition, refurbishment and new structure and remediation works to the existing two storey (Emily Macpherson) and four storey (Ethil Margaret) buildings. The final outcome will comprise approximately 5000m2 of new floor space for the post graduate RMIT business faculty.
The CSR Gyprocket Project incorporates the design, fabrication, supply and construction of buildings and associated roadways and laydown for the manufacture of plasterboard.
Awards – 2010 MBAV AWARD WINNER
EXCELLENCE IN CONSTRUCTION OF COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Enabling Works Project for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Westerly Expansion (WEHI West). The project includes:
Melbourne Health Decanting Works – Refurbishment of ground and basement levels of the existing Materials Handling Building to house Melbourne Health Offices and Workshops, and a 10 year old tilt panel warehouse in Tullamarine to house Melbourne Health Stores and Supply Department.
Other Enabling Works – WEHI Works – New chiller plant to serve existing and new WEHI, ramps to the existing basement car park, demolition of the western car park and existing Royal Melbourne Hospital buildings on the new WEHI site, bulk excavation, piling and retaining walls and associated works for the basement of the new WEHI building and demolition of the freestanding concrete beams and columns in the existing WEHI forecourt.
Infrastructure upgrade throughout Pfizer’s 23 Acre Mumbai facility. Included was Roads, drains, paths, lighting and landscaping, a gatehouse security building, meter room to house the incomers for the 22kV site power from the local authorities and a cable, 350m from the meter room to the Panel room which houses all the site wide electrical distribution panels and transformer, a pipe rack runs throughout the site providing services to all buildings. Adjacent the panel room are 2 1200kVA diesel generators for 100% power backup, a fuel oil tank farm provides fuel oil for the generators, diesel fire pump and boilers.
A 750m3 water tank and a pump-house supply water to the site and fire sprinkler and fire hydrant systems to all of the buildings throughout the site. A utilities building houses the Soft water filtration system and associated plant and equipment, services are provided from this building to all the others. This project was not required originally as all services were provided from the adjacent facility however part way through construction all services to the site were terminated which made this project a necessity.
Extensive refurbishment to kitchen and dining areas of Melbourne’s Heritage Parliament House on Spring Street. The project was completed while Parliament continued to sit.
Construction of the Moorabbin Law Courts facility, including court rooms, chambers and offices for various Justice agencies. The building incorporates ESD principles and is finished in materials including aluminium, copper, bluestone, concrete and glass.
Cockram was engaged by Lilly to represent the client and provide Construction Management services for the Mayaguez Equipment Salvage Facility Recovery. Our team provided the management & implementation of our safety and environmental program and provided project accounting services on behalf of Lilly.
The project consisted in demo all production building that were not going to be in operation any more, also all tanks from the tank farm area were removed, all the equipment from the building also were removed before the building was demo. More that the half of the plant was demo.
Our team prepared and direct weekly Environmental Health and Safety meetings, were responsible to preparing monthly reports, approving EQB manifests, storm water control program, waste disposal management plan, performed the audits to identify noncompliance areas and implement corrective actions. Conduct regulars Safety and Health audits and inspections to the construction site and contractors workshops to report findings.
Construction works associated with four buildings on a secure Defence site. Work included general laboratories, industrial laboratories, offices, conference theatre, library and other general facilities. This project was completed in an operational Defence facility, with highly stringent security requirements.
Major areas for refurbishment included replacing the canopy due to the prolonged water penetration through the edges of the ‘Alumply’ panels causing deterioration of the plywood and some delamination of the aluminum cladding; the entire canopy was therefore replaced with a new cladding system which utilises an equivalent of the existing material.
