Friday, 11 October, 2013
One OF THE BIGGEST BUILDINGS ON THE Sunshine Coast has won this year’s regional Master Builders Housing and Construction Awards Project of the Year.
Larger than two football fields, the Maroochydore Homemaker Centre required more than five years of planning and civil works to reach completion.
Built by leading construction company ADCO, the building represents a departure from typical bulky good centres to one that provides an enclosed and integrated space for an indoor shopping mall experience.
Historically, bulky goods were done in a warehouse on a slab with low rents and no shopping centre background of tenancy mix.
Yet today, the recently completed Homemaker Centre is a new retail experience for the region, an indoor mall design that dominates the gateway to the Maroochydore CBD from Sunshine Motorway.
Established in 1972, ADCO has grown to be one of Australia’s top 100 private companies, supported by a network of subcontractors, suppliers and consultants.
Delivering the award-winning project on time and on budget is what impressed the regional judges and Master Builders regional manager Michael Hopkins the most.
“Being such an experienced building company in large commercial works, ADCO were very well organised and had good systems in place to build it efficiently,” Mr Hopkins said. “On the face it may seem like a straight forward building to deliver a project as large as that but it was a massive feat that required immense focus on the building process and doing things efficiently.
“It required doing things to a quality that would not need mistakes being fixed afterwards.” Positioned in the heart of the maturing Maroochy Boulevard, the centre features 5000sq m of premium first-floor commercial space, 900 undercover parking spaces and lift access.
Mr Hopkins said the build and design was one that defined the future look and feel of the imminent new Maroochydore CBD.
“It’s at the front door of the new CBD, so its good they paid attention to the design of the front façade,” he said.
“Being such a large and dominant building on Maroochy Boulevard it really acts as an entrance to Maroochydore itself.”
During its construction, up to 300 contractors were working on site at any given time.
Now complete and anchored by Harvey Norman, Domayne and Joyce Mayne, it also features Nick Scali Furniture, Goodlife health Club, Fantastic Furniture, Apples Next Byte, Rugs a Million, Sleepy’s, Dollar Tree and Global Living. The space totals more than 32,785sq m. It consists of more than 45,000 cubic metres of concrete, 1000 more tonnes of steel and enough cabling to reach Surfers Paradise.
Mr Hopkins agreed the build was a first for the Sunshine Coast.
“For a building that big and that important to the CBD, it’s probably a first for the Coast _ and it was built so quickly,” he said. “When you think of buildings that scale they sometimes take a number of years to finish. “There was a lot of planning to prepare for that.”
From initial designs beginning in 2010 and construction commencing in April 2011, ADCO’S award winning Maroochydore Homemaker Centre project was delivered on time and on budget on October 10, 2012 at a contract value of $66 million.
That’s more than just a few football fields.
Domain Magazine – Property Week
Saturday July 27, 2013
Tags: efficient, experience, Master Builders Association, Project of Year, regional winner, Shopping Mall
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