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Civitas Apartments are a 9 Storey apartment building constructed
on the Darwin Esplanade. During its construction RMD Australia
supplied Advance Constructions formwork, falsework and access
equipment solutions.
This project was constructed on the side of
a very steep, 53 degree cliff face. This meant that the land
firstly had to be excavated and banked out. The base of the
building commenced approximately 15m down the side of the cliff.
A large number of load bearing walls needed to be constructed
and RMD’s Minima panel system was utilized for all these.
The walls extended for approximately 45m, they were 600mm thick
and 3m tall. The RMD Slimshor shoring system was used for propping
the wall formwork to ensure it was stable. This work was undertaken
by Gosaero Pty Ltd.
RMD’s Strongshor frame system was used
with timber and ply to support the podium slab which was 800mm
thick and 800m² in area; this was effectively where the
typical floors commenced, which gave a base for the Rapidstage
scaffold to rest on. The Rapidstage scaffold covered the perimeter
of the building allowing access to all external faces of the
building. The scaffold at full height was 27m tall.
The Scaffold was utilised in a two fold manner. Firstly as a
highly efficient access system and also as a soffit/shoring
system because the seventh floor protrudes out from the main
structure by approximately 1.5m on the front elevation of the
building, consequently Rapidstage was used as a soffit/shoring
system to cater for this protrusion and then the next two floors
were able to be constructed in the normal fashion.
RMD Darwin has worked with Advance Constructions
on several projects throughout Darwin, many of which were multi-level
dwellings.
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