Cassidy Construction was main contractor in delivery of this three-level classroom block, each floor of which extends to about 650m2. Housing 12 separate learning spaces, including purpose-designed music and food technology classrooms, the new facility provides capacity for the school to accommodate a roll increase to 1200 students.
What made this project both interesting and challenging is that the primary structure is all in-situ concrete, with the ground floor suspended off the ground and sitting on 30m-long steel driven piles. Cassidy’s self-performing capability came to the fore during the 18-month build, with both the concreting and carpentry trades drawn from our highly experienced in-house team.
Before starting construction, our team built a 200m haul road across a field to safely access the site. Further complexity was added by the fact that the field and the edge of the building site were formerly a landfill site, so we had to manage the additional hazard of methane gas leaching from the ground at our build location.
Cassidy Construction was main contractor in delivery of this three-level classroom block, each floor of which extends to about 650m2. Housing 12 separate learning spaces, including purpose-designed music and food technology classrooms, the new facility provides capacity for the school to accommodate a roll increase to 1200 students.
What made this project both interesting and challenging is that the primary structure is all in-situ concrete, with the ground floor suspended off the ground and sitting on 30m-long steel driven piles. Cassidy’s self-performing capability came to the fore during the 18-month build, with both the concreting and carpentry trades drawn from our highly experienced in-house team.
Before starting construction, our team built a 200m haul road across a field to safely access the site. Further complexity was added by the fact that the field and the edge of the building site were formerly a landfill site, so we had to manage the additional hazard of methane gas leaching from the ground at our build location.
