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March 2007

Centre left of the expanded image, you can clearly see the steel columns, indicating the roof shape of the new Darwin Convention Centre, highlighted against the skyline. In the foreground is Macmahon's longreach excavator, rebuilt after it's unfortunate swim this time last year, taking a much easier way to level some bumps in the floor of Kitchener Bay.





With the upswing in quarry industry work, it was time to buy back one of our old excavators and give it a rebuild. Rocky is a veteran of many a challenging project, and his rock hammer will make short work of the piles of over-size at the Mt Bundy and then Mataranka quarries. The Mt Bundy area is the source for granite armour rock used in the Wharf project's seawall.

The rain cleared a bit, and with the end of the month approaching, the expanded image shows the rapid progress being achieved on the Convention Centre. In this reverse angle shot, looking SE towards East Arm Wharf, you can see the Centre's NW wall and two upper floors, as well as the first three roof trusses and purlins firmly in place.




The larger image shows our machines "Deven" and "Roo" topping out sections of the rock armour as the wave wall nears completion. If you look closely, you can see the pinker, dusty rock, that has just been placed. The concrete headwall, lower RHS, is the overflow outlet from the marina. This allows dirty water, and heavy rainfall or stormwater, to overflow when clean water is added at the other end of the marina basin.