St John’s Regional College – Junior STEM Building - Alchemy Construct

Status: Completed

Education

St John's Regional College

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Client

Catholic Education Melbourne

Location

Dandenong

Dates

December 2020 – May 2022

Principal Consultant

Y2 Architects

Delivery Method

Fixed Lump Sum

Modern and industrial elements are perfectly blended together to form the brand new St John’s Regional College double storey learning facility.⁠

To assist in bringing this wonderful building to life, Alchemy worked to demolish and remove the existing structures, walls, roof, paving, hard landscaping and vegetation in specified areas of the school.

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Alchemy Construct acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we build – the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and the Wadawurrung people whose Country extends across Geelong and surrounding regions. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise their enduring connection to Country.

 

We believe building carries responsibility – to place, to people and to the future. For us, that means listening and learning from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and culture and taking action to help create an industry that is fairer and more inclusive.

 

The spaces we deliver shape how people live and work. They influence who feels welcome and represented. We are committed to ensuring our projects and our practices reflect respect, equity and genuine opportunity, and that the legacy we leave is one we can stand behind.

Level 4, 101 Moray Street South Melbourne, VIC 3205
5/65 Brougham Street Geelong, VIC 3220

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Monash University 211 Wellington Road

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Client

Monash University

Location

211 Wellington Road

Project Manager

Pauline Bastiaens

Dates

June – August 2016

Principal Consultant

Gray Puksand

Delivery Method

Construction Management

The 211 Wellington Road Project was a complete refurbishment of levels 4 and 5 for Monash University and involved providing stakeholders with a new state-of-the-art office facility, including break-out rooms, collaborative spaces, presentation and training rooms – many with high-tech AV facilities.

The project had an extremely tight timeframe and following engagement on a CM basis, our team was involved in ensuring the delivery of a quality fit out, working collaboratively with the consultants and trades on time.

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Location

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The Tarneit Community Learning Centre redevelopment seeks to make better use of space for day-to-day learning activities, improve Council’s operations with new meeting and study rooms, acoustic operable walls, a new steel structural roof and effective separation of ‘noisy’ and ‘quiet’ activity zones.

The scope involved some significant civil and landscape works over three different areas including new paving, greenery and hedging. Agricultural irrigation was installed, as well as bollard lighting and architectural gates and fences. Since the centre is joined to a library and kindergarten, Alchemy Construct was tasked to carefully plan and execute works in conjunction with the library and childcare operators to make sure their business operations continued in the immediate vicinity of our construction activities.

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Alchemy Construct were engaged to complete the office refurbishment of Monash Caulfield Building S, Levels 8 and 9 for the Faculty of Business and Economics.

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Alchemy demonstrated flexibility and adaptability within the program of works, sequencing works to minimise impact to ongoing business operations.

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Location

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RMIT’s Interior Design students were invited as part of their course work to take part in a design competition aimed at providing the New Academic Street (NAS) project with a purpose-built “Makers Space” within the City campus Library. This gave students design influence on the NAS project and exposed them to industry experts from Lyons Architecture and Schiavello Interiors.

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The Doug Ellis pool works entailed an initial demolition of the wall and floor tiles, membrane and render from the lap pool and adjacent leisure pool. Works were undertaken while the adjacent variable floor pool remained fully operational, as well as working around mid-year examinations in the nearby Sports Hall.

The University took the opportunity to remove the “tongue” from the leisure pool and re-align the southern wall, relocating the lifting hoist and replacing lane rope anchors. Alchemy Construct provided input for an alternative design of the scum gutters to permit ease of ongoing maintenance, and a ‘wet-deck’ profile was adopted to the southern and northern sides. Similarly, custom-fabricated glass reinforced panels were installed to the leisure pool, and the balance tank re-lined to ensure longevity, addressing the detrimental effect of the harsh chemical treatment in the pool environment.

The Alchemy team ensured all works were managed sympathetic to the ongoing business operations in the immediate vicinity. Proactive and technically sound measures were implemented to overcome the substantial latent conditions encountered.

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Client

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A fun, engaging and ‘break-away’ space for students.

Alchemy Construct was engaged to manage a new build within the existing external courtyard in the heart of the Monash Sports Centre to create a fun, engaging and ‘break-away’ space for students. The Games Room comprises billiard tables, arcade machines, dart boards, board games, video games, a foosball table and air hockey table.

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In partnership with Melton City Council and the Victorian Government’s Growing Suburbs Fund, Alchemy are proud to have delivered the extension and refurbishment to the Brookside Pavilion.

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The City of Yarra’s redevelopment of the Malcolm Graham Pavilion sought to encourage and enhance participation of females in sport and active recreation by specifically delivering modern gender-neutral change rooms with some really robust finishes.

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The Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences refurbishment on Level 1 of the Scott Building created six, flat-floor, 30-capacity teaching spaces to support a new vertical double-degree. The main thoroughfares were converted to glazed walls with feature film to promote engagement across the rooms. Inter-connectivity of the rooms added to the interactive and collaborative nature of the learning space.

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