Mount Alexander College and Flemington Primary School

Customer: Victorian School Building Authority

Contract type: Design and Construct

Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Construction period:  approximately 12 months

Project Capabilities

Fast Facts:

• Demolition of existing building
• New 5-storey building
• Over 4000 m2 of new landscaping
• 600 m2 of new community space with seating
• New services infrastructure including electrical, water and stormwater facilities

Built Environs is delivering Mount Alexander College and Flemington Primary School upgrades for the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA).  This program of work is part of the Flemington Education Plan, which will provide the local community with high-quality, seamless education from birth. The investment will provide more enrolment places and improved learning opportunities for local students.

The Mount Alexander College scope of works includes:

• Demolition of an existing trade building
• A new 5-storey building
• A new canteen
• A new lift and upgrade of amenity spaces within the existing Block E building
• Upgrade of existing services infrastructure including new dual feed fire main, increased stormwater capacity with a 20,000L retention tank, new bored electrical and communications infrastructure, and a new main switchboard
• 2,000 m2 of landscape works.

The Flemington Primary School scope of works includes:

• 2,220 m2 of external landscape works
• Upgrade of the existing new junior and senior play areas
• A 660 m2 central community space with seating and gathering spaces
• A new 270 m2 outdoor learning area to connect to the existing art room
• An upgraded 300 m2 amphitheatre
• New tree planting to create shade and shelter.

Always on the lookout for value-adds, the team worked with their structures contractor to redesign and integrate façade precast panels into the main structure. This allowed for efficiencies in the construction of the building and the deletion of concrete columns, opening up more usable floor space and providing significant cost savings.

Both upgrades are being undertaken within live school environments and the project team have implemented a range of measures to minimise impacts, including extensive out of hours work.