The Tagai State College, on Mer Island in the Torres Strait, is a 150 student facility commissioned by Project Services for the Island community. The school incorporates a full size rugby league field and an undercover basketball court to promote sport for the children within the local community. The building structures are demountable style remote buildings with rainwater harvesting designed for reuse within the school grounds. The site of the development is located on steep terrain on the side of an extinct volcano. Additional briefs of designing a 1.5km access road and also connecting the school to the island sewerage treatment plant added further challenges to the team. STP Director Trevor Slogrove and Stephen Tobias led our design team to deliver this top class education facility.
Builder: Hansen Yuncken
Civil Contractor: LDI Constructions
The Townsville International Sports Centre, now known as the Townsville RSL Stadium was officially opened on Monday 11th July. The $15.3 million facility will make it easier to attract more regional, state, national and international sports events. The facility includes three multi layered courts that have retractable seating for up to 2000 people as well as a gymnasium, change rooms, reception area plus community meeting rooms. STP Partner Brian Mayer led our design team to deliver this first class sporting facility.
The Edge Apartments, Port Moresby are currently under construction with STP Director Stephen Tobias overseeing the project. All precast and insitu concrete has been completed. The roof steelwork is currently being installed and the internal fitout is now well underway.
Mackay Christian College students and parents recently opened the junior school campus and the multi purpose hall at an opening ceremony held on the 17th June 2011. Brian Mayer, our STP Partner and Mackay office manager, engineered the three classrooms and the multipurpose hall which holds about 1100 people and features state of the art sound and lighting and a stage with wings for school productions. The project was part of the Federal Governments Building the Education Revolution program. Brian is currently working on the construction of the school’s kindergarten.
On Saturday 23rd July, the new Cooktown Community Events Centre was officially opened. Designed with the local community in mind it has the ability to hold sporting matches, concerts and cultural events. The facility also doubles as a cyclone shelter. Designed by STP Partner Anthony Florence, the building is constructed using tilt panel walls and structural steel framing for the roof.
The Townsville Marine Precinct Project Stage 1 has recently been finalised and handed over to Ross Haven Marine. Stage 2 is scheduled for completion in December 2011.
STP Consultants have recently been engaged by PDT Architects to design the general building requirements associated with the relocation of marine industries to the new precinct site. Laing O’Rourke is the managing contractor for the project.
In February this year, Stephen Tobias our Cairns Based Director applied to the Institution of Engineers Papua New Guinea Inc. He is now a Registered Structural Engineer in PNG.