185 Elizabeth Street

The works undertaken by RMW at The St James Trust Building, Sydney ranged from concrete, render and sandstone repairs to replacement of all steel windows on both the Elizabeth and Castlereagh Street frontages.

The project was tendered as a lump sum contract, with the sandstone repairs, façade coatings and window replacement works completed as fixed lump sum items.

Works required to repair the window surrounds and the make good of tenancies after the windows were installed, were carried out at day labour rates under provisional allowances. This was done as the extent of the internal make good could not be quantified, and this system was a reasonable means in which to undertake these works. This was also the case for the concrete and render repairs, as it is not possible to determine the extent of these works at the time of tender this was undertaken at rates under provisional allowances.

Due to the extent of the repairs being unknown, this project saw a large majority of the works undertaken at rates, in which RMW was still able to adhere to programme.