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On 23 April 2006 NBLC Inc commenced a major project to extend the Club house situated at Albert Bishop Park. The extension will provide additional space for club activities as well as providing a separate meeting room and separate permanent storage space. On completion the building will be just over double the existing size and should cater for growth of the club through to 2020. You can monitor progress on the construction by checking this page frequently. Double click the thumb nail prints to see larger size photos.
Cap'n My Cap'n. President Graham Fox establishes levels for new building.
Les Wakefield ensures the new building will be square.
Builder Robert Clarke marks out the footings.
Let The Digging Commence. Graham Kinsella commences the preparation with his Dingo.
Digging The Footings. Slow progress amongst the rubble used in the fill.
Finding the Plumbing. Les and Graham looking for the old plumbing, drainage & electricity.
Day 1 Completed. The first day is ended with a quite drink.
Because of the slow progress on Day 1 a decision was made to bring in the "big machinery" to complete the footings.
Jeff O'dea supervising and Les Wakefield in the trenches again.
The next step is to have the screw in piers put in. This is scheduled for Wednesday April 26. 15 May Update 42 piers to support the slabs have now been "sunk". While the plans called for 2.5 metre piers, we had to go to a depth of 11 metres in some places to establish solid bottom.
Blocks have also been laid to prepare for the slab to be poured.
20 May Update
The slabs were poured on May 22.
27 May Update The building extension has been "unofficially opened" by the beading class. Due to a faceting class taking place in the old building, the beading ladies set up their work area on the new slab. The light was very good and it was a pleasant winter's morning in the sun.
24 July Update The walls are up! Leon Greenway (our fabulous bricklayer) placed the last block in place at 10AM on Monday 24 July. This is a sensational milestone and a credit to the handful of dedicated volunteers who have provided the labour to keep up with Leon over the last month. The next step is to fill the blocks with concrete mix to provide strengthening and support. Almost 5cu. metres of concrete will need to be mixed and poured. Can you help????
26 July Update Thanks to the efforts of 8 hard working members the block walls have now been filled and to a degree, the large heavy labour component of our extension has been completed. Something like 4.5Cu metres of concrete was mixed, lifted into buckets and then poured into the walls. We estimate that just on 100 cement mixer loads of concrete were used on the day.
October 2006 Update The 40th. anniversary of NBLC Inc was celebrated with the opening of the extension by Qld. MP Neil Roberts (patron of NBLC Inc). |
