Japara Healthcare Central Park

This project marked Total Construction’s seventh collaboration with Japara, and no less important despite being Japara’s flagship facility, located on Punt Road, Windsor.

During the works on levels 6 and 7, Japara requested a complete refurbishment to all other floors which included for new fixtures, fittings, tiles, lighting and nurse call system, along with an additional 14 new en-suites throughout the levels. The resulting project is a showcase facility for Japara. The standard of the new level is second to none and boasts private dining and a full commercial kitchen, en-suite rooms along with a butler service to residents.

Initially engaged to construct a new two level extension to the existing five storey building and plant room, we discovered early on in the construction that the existing structure couldn’t take the load of the new level, resulting in a re-design of the steel structure and installed a false floor over existing load-bearing walls. By collaborating with the client and consultants, we were able to meet Stage 1 quality, budget and timeline targets. We also erected a complete perimeter scaffold with an external lift from the start of the project to minimise the impact of the works to the facility and residents. This resulted in being our biggest scaffold project to date.

As the facility was to remain fully operational throughout the construction works, the ongoing comfort of residents meant that we implemented noise restrictions. We also needed to program and coordinate over 300 resident moves throughout the refurbishment works.