Enhanced Land Force Stage 2, Royal Military College, Majura Training Area, Canberra

Stage 1:

a. Relocate existing “transportable” RAP buildings to their nominated temporary location adjacent to the HQ building; b. Relocate existing furniture from within those accommodation buildings that will be demolished in Stage 1 to the existing Lecture Building;
c. Demolish existing accommodation and ablution facilities;
d. Construct 4 x 40 man Scale A Camp accommodation blocks incorporating communal ablution and laundry;
e. Construct new electrical substation;
f. Construct new water storage tanks;
g. Upgrade engineering services infrastructure;
h. External works including networked pathways and landscaping.

Stage 2:

a. Construct 4 x 40 man Scale A Camp accommodation blocks incorporating communal ablution and laundry;
b. Construct 1 x Field HQ building incorporating Field RAP; c. Construct FTF; d. Construct Syndicate room;
e. Upgrade engineering services infrastructure;
f. External works including networked pathways and landscaping.
g. Demolish existing accommodation, ablutions, laundry and lecture facilities;
h. Remove temporarily relocated RAP buildings.

Challenges

Stage 1 has a very fixed time frame for completion. Other challenges are the constrained work area with narrow construction corridor and working in an active training camp for Royal Military College cadets.

Clients Specific Needs

Regular scheduled meetings with the Client, range control, key stakeholders and the end user (RMC) to ensure an open communication process is maintained. Traffic control management is also carried out to ensure limited vehicle movement within Camp Blake to prevent interruptions to ongoing training manoeuvres by cadets.

Progress

Stage 1 was handed over to the client at the end of November 2010. Stage 2 works are underway and is due for completion in mid April 2011.