Demolition experts DECC Pty Ltd have been awarded the contract for the demolition of two buildings currently sitting atop the site of the Cross River Rail (CRR) project’s future Woolloongabba Station.
The nine-storey Landcentre building and old South Brisbane Dental Hospital are to be destroyed to make way for the $5.4 rail project. Clearing the 16,000-square metre site is to cost $4.52 million, with heavy demolition works to begin in September.
The Goprint building, which was also located on the future station site, was demolished by Lawton-based company Caylamax Demolitions between October 2017 and February 2018.
The site will be the first full station site to be prepared for the Cross River Rail project, and will host the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) which are to dig the twin 5.9-kilometre tunnels under Brisbane river and the CBD.
One of the five new stations for the Cross River Rail project, the Woolloongabba Station will be constructed 27m below ground, and will feature 220-metre long platforms. It will be located close to the existing bus station, with a new pedestrian bridge to the existing busway on Stanley Street.
The station will reportedly improve access to The Gabba stadium and nearby health and entertainment precincts.
The other new stations to be constructed are Boggo Road Station, Albert Street Station, Roma Street Station, and Exhibition Station.
Demolition of the Landcentre building and the South Brisbane Dental Hospital is expected to be complete early 2019. Construction activities on the site for CRR will begin later in 2019.