Construction Site Visit 1:

This building is the new council offices for Geelong. Located directly across from Deakin's Waterfront campus.This is a great demonstration of concrete construction both on and off site.
In this first photo you can see the suspended slabs of the first and second level and the third and fourth levels still under construction. You can see the large amount of suport needed to hold up the bonddeck before the concrete sets and gains it's strength.

In this image you can see the concrete cloubms have been poured into a stainless steel mold that then stays as part of the structure. You can also see one of the disadvantages of using suspended slabs in this photo and that is the need to run all the services undernieth the slabs. Here we can see some of the initial electrical wiring and fire protection.
Here you can see the use of pre-cast concrete slabs on the western side of the building. Using pre-cast concrete slabs means there is much less time spent on site. Therefor making them very cost affective. Not to mention there long term durability when compared to bricks and different types of cladding.

Using pre-cast concrete construction there will always be the need of a crane to move.

Literally at this stage of construction the whole building is made out of concrete. This demonstrates the trend of commercial construction today and the diversity of this material that is becoming more and more availiable.