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Contractors worked up to 18-hour days to finish the building and its huge yard.
Careful planning and working exceptionally long hours were what brought the PlaceMakers build in ahead of schedule, according to two local family-owned businesses that did the bulk of the work.
Andrew and Julie Boyd’s Coresteel carried out the groundworks and built the state of the art 25 metre-wide clearspan building, while father and son builders Grant and Hamish Dobbyn did the fit-out, the outside yard, 65 carparks and drainage.
“It was planning, planning, planning that got us through,” Julie Boyd said. “We had the box beam structure in before Christmas so we could get started straight after. And even though we had no building happening for five weeks, Andrew had always planned the job in such a way that the internal fit-out could be done before we’d finished the whole structure, so Dobbyns could come in and get on as soon as possible.
“We had 10 employees at the time and brought in another five to work with our guys at times. Andrew’s organisation was the absolute essence. We’re so proud of our team.”
Grant Dobbyn said for his crew of up to 12 staff, it was just a matter of putting in some extra hard yards.
“We came in under by doing 16 to 18 hour days till we got it completed,” he said. “We just went silly for six to eight weeks. We were on site at 5am and there most days until 10pm. We were lucky to have a good local crew and a lot of staff – everyone had to keep up with us. Davco did exceptionally well, and the stoppers and painters, too.”
He said for all its challenges, it had been a great project to work on.
“It was a real good job to work on, really well organised. Bevan Morrison was great, any questions we had were always answered straight away, he was hands on, every day,” Grant said. “It was a good job for a good local family.”
