Tag: Aveo @ Carindale

The Build, 10

Wednesday 20 May 2026: Rain has stopped though clouds are gathering again. All the work today has been on the cabins. This morning from about 6.30 am a generator was busy for three or so hours. I get that there were leaking roof edges, three or four people on scaffolding fixing them.

On the 11th of May this crane appeared on site that had us (residents overlooking) all wondering.

We weren’t left in suspense very long as a truck with a cabin/shed/donga on top followed …

Next was placing the cabin in the right place … a bit of to-ing and fro-ing …

Puzzling them together onto a small site, leaving adequate passages … the next day came the concreter spurting the product between the sheds.

Here with the cement mixer truck …

And finally the finishing touches … this was before the rain.

After the rain, a whole lot more of the above.

The Build, Days 1+2

Day two of the demolition stage … a brand spanking new machine is busy taking out the vegetation so carefully nurtured by the gardening crew only a few days ago.

Someone could’ve saved themselves a swag of money, time and useless busy work if they only worked together.

When I watch a machine like that at work, I always wonder whether a couple of men on the ground couldn’t do that work more efficiently.

Chainsawing the shrubs, stacking them on a pile or dragging them to a truck. There aren’t any real trees in that section. How can it be cheaper?

Yes. Don’t worry. That was a rhetorical ‘big world’ question. I realise that by the time an employer pays humans their holiday pays, sickness benefits and super, one driver is cheaper than three laborers.

By ‘big world’ I mean the ESG costs as well as just running a demolition company.

E = environmental; S = social; G = governance … I’m still in the dark about the significance of the last one. You?