Arabella Apartments

New Year

2012-02-13T16:55:00.003+08:00

smoko

Rocko having smoko

kitchen cabinets

busy upstairs

plenty of louvres waiting to be installed

Graham hard at work

never stops

Nearly Xmas

2011-12-12T16:30:00.001+08:00

John after just finishing sanding another apartment

Pouring concrete underneath the driveway ramp

The last pour at Arabella Apartments

Conor fitting out one of the commercial tenancy's

Steve and Bryn

Looking down Anderson St.

Derrick looking the part

We have a front door!

The last of about 300 concrete trucks

Ben cutting up door jambs

Steve bracing the scaffold ready for cyclones

Landscaping planter box

Tied down and ready for cyclones

Alex jumping in the telehandler

Concrete done.

November

2011-11-12T07:55:00.001+08:00

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

October

2011-10-14T15:31:00.001+08:00

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!

2011-10-14T12:58:00.000+08:00

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

August/September

2011-09-21T16:39:00.000+08:00

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

Preparing the Top Slab

2011-08-27T07:39:00.000+08:00

view from the alleyway, pouring walls

Sam offloading some steel from the telehandler

Pilbara sunset

Gary discussing steel

Keron, always working. Never posing

Niza placing the vertical steel in the AFS walls

Gary and Brad, discussing.....work. Definitely.

Bryn and Keron building some stairs

Niza sweeping the deck, preparing for concrete

Jarvis with some flying sparks

plenty of pipework

third last slab pour

not a bad view

Simsy doing some prep work before a pour

Bryn finishing some stairs

What does a cloud look like again Brodie?

Guess who

Brad looking serious

Ben doing a bit of maintenance on the hoist

Edgar St elevation

Jimmy trying to fix the blocked concrete pump

Keron and Bryn

Starting to Heat up

2011-08-10T11:33:00.000+08:00

craning up AFS panels

slow

John painting

Jimmy painting

Simsy working in between scaffold

Glenn walking down the alleyway

Mark always hard at work

first floor carpark. looking at the ramp

more panels to stand

Jarvis grinding some steel

Dave and Sam

Sam "Wilson" Hauritz standing panels

Brodie in his office. Not a bad view

empty stairwell

the hoist

Steve and Keron

Shelley's Camera #2

2011-07-11T08:15:00.000+08:00

Second floor slab

Keron and Steve preparing a column

Niza and Bryn carrying a AFS corner panel

Ben V de-nailing

Ben and Chris standing an acro prop

Site security

July

2011-07-11T08:03:00.003+08:00

Chris, the new telehandler operator

Gary helping out the bobcat

Ben rigging a load

Second floor slab

View from the laneway

Ben organising steel

Looking down the ramp

Chris taking a break

Stuart the steel fixer

Last pour of the first floor slab

Sam and Ben helping out the scaffolders

Ben bundling up scaffold tubes

View from the second floor

Alex with the crane

Gary and Ben

Approaching Winter

2011-06-15T16:47:00.000+08:00

sunrise over the salt mine

the boys standing columns with "cyclops"

lifting more AFS panels

Nev with cyclops

Brodie in control

Mark the plumber, always hard at work

Niza walking down the ramp, pre concrete

the driveway up to the second floor

Keron posing

Keron and Steve

starting poring the ramp

more successful concrete

Keron "always happy" Mills

Jacob & Steve fixing a steel beam

view from the third floor

tight fit

more accommodation for staff

home sweet home

Alex checking it out

Before construction began

2011-06-04T09:22:00.000+08:00

view from the laneway

the old chinese restaurant, demolished May 2010

Shelley's Camera

2011-06-04T08:59:00.001+08:00

standing AFS wall panels

Edgar St

Alex and Nev trying to be surveyors

the last of the 175 cubic metres of concrete poured that day

Gary in a meeting

concrete pump at full stretch

Ash and Bryn having a cuppa'

smoko

busy

Niza and Bryn standing more wall panels

dinner time at home

worlds busiest clothes line

Sunday at Cape Keraudren

Nev and his new mate

End of May

2011-06-03T16:29:00.000+08:00

blue skies

superman

superwoman

night before the pour

Ash

3.30am - ready to pour

shelley supervising

yes, that is Bash doing the dishes. he must of got lost

second floor delivery of AFS panels

Niza and Jarvis working hard

not much space left

the boys stripping

the kibble

Nev putting the final touches on the Cyclops

first floor suspended slab

Pouring the first walls

2011-05-14T10:39:00.001+08:00

Steve, Niza and SteveO preparing

Steve on the move

Jarvis, Steve, Bryn, Niza, Gary and SteveO

Gary watching over Niza

First Floor Deck

2011-05-14T10:25:00.002+08:00

scaffold

first floor

more steel

lifting the AFS panels into position

Nev and Steve with the cyclopes

Month 2

2011-05-05T17:49:00.008+08:00

Arabella Apartments has seen a substantial amount of progress occur in the month of April. The progress is largely due to the extended workforce that Wightman Building Company now employees and houses in Port Hedland. The complex in Wedgefield is now home to 10 people, with the recently finished extension allowing four more people to move in. These spots will shortly be filled as demand on site becomes ever greater.

April has seen the following developments on site;

The last footings poured
Both commercial tenancy slabs poured
Completion of all plumbing and drainage work in the ground (including firefighting area and water tanks)
Over 50 tonnes of scaffold delivered
All ground floor AFS walls delivered
Standing and pouring of the AFS walls to the driveway ramp
Standing of AFS walls throughout both commercial areas
The suspended slab over the second commercial area ready to pour

This has allowed Wightman Building Company to remain on track with its initial schedule and will potentially see the first suspended slab poured in May

second commercial tenancy slab

first walls (fire pump room)

The best operator of a hose WBC has ever had

keeping worksafe happy

ramp up to first floor (water tanks underneath)

Bryn

Brodie hiding in a hole

formwork for a structural column

Bash with the final touches

from FESA's block across the laneway

Across the road

Niza working on the AFS

first floor deck

looking down Edgar St

starting to look like a building site

Closing in on the slab

2011-04-05T08:48:00.000+08:00

sparrow's

plumbing pre-lay

want to ride a camel around WA anyone?

Week 4

2011-03-27T19:10:00.000+08:00

tropical rain

the getaway

gary and neville

tying steel

steve and alex smashing asbestos pipe

afterwards

the hole

steve dumping sand

site foreman

perfect fit

watering the road

Week 3

2011-03-16T16:49:00.000+08:00

saturday night

endless ~~summer~~ steel

brodie's new job

first footing ligature

too hot for my 3.14phone

Mud

2011-03-12T08:23:00.000+08:00

5am

compacting

L&P bro'

first concrete

Alex vibrating

Steve finishing

first footing

More dirt

2011-03-10T19:06:00.000+08:00

high tide

swim in the sewerage anyone?

jacko

Site toilet

2011-03-10T10:26:00.000+08:00

courtesy of the port hedland game fishing club

Reinforcing Steel

2011-03-09T16:07:00.000+08:00

Brodie operating the telehandler

Neville Thompson - site manager

blue steel?

9th of March '11

2011-03-09T15:20:00.000+08:00

progress

smoko (less progress)

at home, raining cats and

Inside the bobcat

2011-03-09T15:13:00.000+08:00

Formwork

2011-03-09T15:11:00.000+08:00

first footing

Brodie, Neville & Ben

Danger

2011-03-09T15:06:00.000+08:00

Brodie Read - third year carpentry apprentice

Digging

2011-03-09T15:04:00.000+08:00

Alex in the backhoe

the first hole

The beginning...

2011-03-09T14:59:00.000+08:00

2/3/11 - four men and a site fence

40ft site office and Gary

Lot 41 Edgar St, Port Hedland

2011-03-09T14:51:00.000+08:00

Cyclone clean up

2011-03-09T14:36:00.000+08:00

home

the survivor

The drive up

2011-03-09T14:27:00.000+08:00

Meekatharra 26/2