Construction work increases on Invercargill CBD rebuild
Friday, 29 January 2021
Fifty truck loads of concrete worth $90,000 was poured into the CBD rebuild area in one day this week.
The 285 cubic metres of concrete was brought in on Wednesday with the pour starting at 7am and finishing eight hours later, Invercargill Central project director Geoff Cotton said.
“That was the first major pour in zone two, the Esk St retail building area. Steel [structures] will start appearing [there] in the next couple of weeks.”
Construction of the Farmers store and car park, for 675 cars, was progressing well, Cotton said.
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Sixty per cent of the large precast concrete wall panels in the Farmers build are erected and in the next fortnight, concrete will be poured into part of its first floor slab.
Nine of the 89 concrete columns for the car park are in place, while 40 per cent of its foundations are finished.
“We’re relying very much on the delivery of steel work and the precast, that’s the key to the continuing progress … and obviously getting the foundations in,” Cotton said.
”When they connect these new buildings to the old facades, we can get rid of the steel [supports] on Esk St.”
Lewis Bradford Consulting Engineers provided the structural design for the whole rebuild area.
Its site structure engineer Jordan Cane said “we’re pretty happy with how it’s getting erected.
“There doesn’t seem to be any major issues with putting it together.”
The Farmers store, the bottom two levels of the car park and some Esk St retailers will be the first to open in the block in May 2022.