EMCO Building Commences Site Works at Harrisdale Secondary School

EMCO Building has commenced works at the Harrisdale Secondary College site that will provide accommodation for 1,450 students by the completion of Stage 2. The initial Stage 1 of the College development consists of the construction of 5 buildings (Block A to E) including Site and Landscape work. The first stage of construction includes Administration, Student Services and Medical Centre, an Information Resource Centre with a Staffroom, a Community Classroom Block, a Science Learning Area, Technology & Enterprise Learning Area, Food & Textiles Studios, Health & Physical Education Learning Area, a Cafeteria as well as outdoor sporting facilities, comprising an oval, four multipurpose courts, a cricket pitch and two cricket practice nets. The first stage, catering for 725 students, comprises predominantly single storey buildings with a double-storey Library /Café building at the core of the campus. The multi million dollar Stage One portion of the project is to be completed for the first school term of 2017, one year in advance of the original State Government program due to the increasing demand for a new secondary school within the Forrestdale catchment area.

EMCO Building and their Senior Site Manager Robert Woods, along with an experienced team of professionals look forward to delivering this project to the Harrisdale Community

View of Harrisdale Secondary School Site

EMCO Building welcomes Peter Dash to the Company

Peter Dash

EMCO Building welcomes Peter Dash to our Company in 2015. Peter began his career as a Trainee Draftsman in 1982 for the Bristol and Weston Health Authority in the UK. In 1991 Peter returned to Perth after living and working in the UK for 9 years and was employed by Curtin University of Technology as Clerk of Works. During his time at Curtin, Peter obtained his Builders Registration and was responsible for overseeing the construction of the Capital Works Programme that now forms the university’s impressive architectural landscape.

In 2004 Peter joined Psaros Builders as Site Manager and was soon promoted to the role of Construction Manager in 2007. In 2009, he was appointed as Director of Construction where he was responsible for all design and construction aspects for the group.

In 2015 Peter joined EMCO Building as Operations Manager and is a valuable asset to the Management Team.

Peter’s experience in both the Academic Field and High Rise Developments ensures Peter is well placed to oversee the running of EMCO Building sites, providing support and direction to the Site Management teams. Peter’s tenure with Curtin University ensured he dealt with a vast array of building types including new build, refurbishments, alterations, extensions and green filed developments all in a live University environment. The 11 years spent with a major develop has provided Peter with both Client Side and Contractor Side experience which is an useful consideration in our deliberations with Clients and Sub Contractors alike.

Peter also has extensive Design and Construct experience having worked with one of Perth’s fastest growing property developers at the time and is well experienced in developing solutions to problems that arise throughout the Construction process.

The Bottleyard, Palmerston Street, PERTH

EMCO Building are about to start The Bottleyard on Palmerston Street, Perth.

Palmerston St is a 125 apartment proposal on a site with significant history. The proposal approaches the site as if it was an entire city block and creates a network of sightlines, paths and gardens around which a series of complimentary buildings sit. These complimentary buildings vary in setbacks, heights, forms and roof profiles and have a finer grained materiality at ground level much like the best urban streetscapes.

Referencing the local area’s past as a market garden and the migrant DIY backyard farming typical of the area the Landscape Architecture includes extensive communal edible gardens. A series of landscape ‘jewels’’ act as way finding markers and occasional seating with integrated bottle glass lighting speaking of another of the site’s histories as a bottle yard. Palmerston St will meet the criteria required for significant height and plot ratio discretion by receiving ‘Design Excellence’ and by being certified as reducing it Life Cycle Carbon by 52%.