Site Visit 1 - 1033 High St. Armadale

ARCHITECT： Name： DAVID CARABOTT
Company： CH ARCHITECT
Address: 204 WELLINGTON STREET, COLLING WOOD

BUILDER: Contact person: MARCO IACOVANTUONO
Company: INGERSON CONSTRUCTIONS
Address: 49-55 YORK STEET, SOUTH MELBOURNE

This is a retail and residential building on the 1033 High Street, Armadale. There are four levels totally. Basement floor is used for sub station. Ground floor includes garage and one tenancy. The first floor is for the second tenancy. And the top floor is for the residential tenancy. The building has exterior concrete block wall and concrete slab. Interior wall and ceiling structures are based on steel framing and the plasterboard on them.

WALL:

140mm Concrete block wallSteel Column in

140mm concrete block wall with down pipe.

Steel column in (picture from the back of building)

Interior wall: steel framing.

The plasterboard will be pasted on the steels.

Some steels may run through the holes to brace the wall.

Or the service lines may run through as well.

Insulation boards (green) are outside the concrete block wall.

Then the steel framings are outside the insulations.

The transverse steel run through the holes to brace the framings.

Plasterboards will be pasted on them.

FLOOR:

200mm concrete slab for suspended floor.


CEILING:

steel framing for ground and first floor ceiling

metal decks under the concrete slab

Second floor: Timbers connects around the steel ceiling framings.
Big holes are on the ceiling framing.

Timbers run through them to fix the framing.
Or service lines may run through as well.

Verandah ceiling joists.

Three skylights totally and one light well.


STAIR:

concrete stair. Storage under the stair
timber framing around the stair on the second floor .

concrete block fire resistent wall on on the lower floor.

DRAINAGE:

100mm spoon drain on the upper floor.

Connection to the downpipe and make sure the stormwater

will flow through them to the underground.

PVC downpipe on the north wall

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT:

acess hatch with 2 HR
fire rating to be accessible at all times.


SERVICES:

air condition connect lines behind the wall

Gas ducts behind the wall.


EXTERIOR:

Building façade facing High Street.

Glass window and door for the building entrance on the ground floor.
This is the timbers outside the concrete work on the north wall.

Light well on the east concrete wall.