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Greenway Flats, Milson's Point - Windows Remediation & Upgrade

This complex project involved renewal of window components to 1300 steel-framed fixed and operable windows of varying types. The Heritage Greenway social housing complex comprises approximately 300 social housing units across 4 towers constructed in stages commencing in 1948 and modelled on similar post-WWII public housing initiatives in New York & London. All work was delivered while the complex remained fully tenanted, with the core objectives being removal of lead-based paint from window frames, replacement of all glass with laminated safety glass, removal of unsympathetic non-heritage window furniture, application of epoxy-based paint coatings to all window frame surfaces and restoration of original brass window furniture. Rapid’s site team worked cooperatively and collaboratively with tenants, the Greenway Tenant’s Association, NSW Land & Housing Corporation and St George Community Housing to facilitate the hugely complex sequencing of treatments to in excess of 1300 individual windows in units and common areas. Work included the design, construction, deployment and continual reconfiguration of multiple fixed and swing-stage scaffolding to permit access to the 10-storey Blocks A & C as well as the low-rise Blocks B & D; design and construction of custom metal and timber containment boxes and their progressive installation and relocation; design and construction of a custom garnet-sand blasting methodology, including negative air pressure extraction and containment of lead paint; and design and deployment of a custom off-site re-glazing methodology for all operable sash components. The project won the Conservation – Built Heritage category at the 2021 National Trust Heritage Awards.

ClientNSW Department of Planning, Industry & Environment - NSW Land & Housing Corporation
LocationGreenway Drive, Milson's Point NSW 2061
Value$6.8m
Duration14 months
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