Roma Street station construction update

 

First train arriving at Roma Street

Civil stormwater works

To service the future Roma Street station, construction of permanent underground stormwater infrastructure including drainage pipes, manholes and gully pits along Roma Street is required.

Due to traffic requirements, construction for this work will take place over the coming months outside of standard construction hours – Monday to Saturday, 6:30pm to 6:30am.This work will require changed traffic condition in the area during these night works. Please follow all direction of traffic control. Pedestrian access to Roma Street station will be maintained. Every effort will be made to minimise the impact of these works on businesses, residents and commuters.

Main station entrance building

Roma Street – Opposite Makerston Street

The below works are ongoing and features both day and night work:

• Oversized deliveries to and from site including crawler crane, permanent canopy steel, mechanical and electrical equipment and architectural panelling
• Large crane lifts of canopy steel segments over the main station building and pedestrian gantry
• Intermittent stop-and-hold traffic control, partial lane closures and footpath diversions along Roma Street, inner northern busway and in the pedestrian gantry
• External cladding, architectural panel fit-out, glazed glass installation, fit-out and finishes
• Hoarding and scaffolding assembling and disassembling requiring hand tools and steel landing
• Preparatory works including excavation, elevated work platforms, mobile cranes, vacuum trucks and hand tools.

First canopy module being lifted into place at Roma Street

Western services building

Roma Street – Opposite Garrick Street

The below works are ongoing and features both day and night work:

• Testing and comissioning of services inlcuding tunnel ventilation systems, communication and control systems and energisation of services
• Formwork, steel reinforcement, concrete pouring, scaffolding installation, drainage installation and vacuum trucks to complete the driveway and service utility connections
• Heavy plant movement including cranage, crane demobilisation and oversized deliveries to site
• Internal fit-out, testing and commissioning of service rooms requiring concrete sealing, epoxy flooring, ceiling and wall sheeting, mechanical ventilation plant installation and cable pulling
• External glass fibre reinforced concrete cladding and architectural panel fit-out
• Concrete demolition of temporary internal walls and slabs requiring hand tools and jackhammer.

Roma Street station

Busway Platform 1 & 2

The below works are ongoing and features both day and night work:

• Installing steel, roof sheeting, guttering and service fit-out to construct the platform canopy
• Delivery of equipment via Roma Street and busway at night outside of operational hours
• Reconstruction of Platform 2 requiring a partial lane closure of the busway, erection of hoarding and traffic management barriers, demolition works, steel fixing, formwork installation and concrete pours
• Concrete demolition of Platform 2 slab and internal walls requiring excavators, jackhammering, saw-cutting hand tools, concrete coring tools, elevated work platforms and installation of noise proof matting
• Construction of lift shaft and stairs requiring concrete trucks and agitators, and concrete boom pump
• Platform 1 tie in to canopy pavilion area requiring rain screen installation, scaffolding, formwork, concrete pours, structural steel delivery and steel fixing.

Service and civil work

Roma Street & Herschel Street

The following works will be ongoing and features both day and night work:

• Storm water pipe installation with a micro tunnel boring machine (TBM) launched from within the Roma Street site. Excavation of a pit in the centre median will be required to retrieve the micro TBM
• Open-cut trenching and pipe installation with road saws, jackhammers, excavators, vacuum excavation trucks, generators, mobile cranes, lighting towers and hand tools
• Stop-and-go traffic control arrangements and partial lane closures outside of standard hours
• Permanent civil storm water works, sewer connection, and service utility investigation and relocation between Parkland Boulevard and the western site boundary
• Site establishment works on Herschel Street and Roma Street intersection requiring erection of hoarding, traffic management barriers and adjusted signalling
• Construction in the traffic island between Herschel and Roma Street including excavation, sub-surface works landscaping requiring vegetation removal and pruning using electric chainsaws, and paving.

Underground cavern

Acoustic shed, corner of Roma Street and Parkland Boulevard

The following works will be ongoing and features both day and night work:

• Fit-out of mechanical and electrical services, architectural panelling, ceiling material and tiling
• Commissioning of tunnel ventilation systems, communication and control systems and energisation

What to expect

Roma Street station construction hours are 24 hours Monday to Friday, and 6.30am to 6.30pm on Saturdays. Some activities may be required to take place outside of these hours. During construction, you may notice:

• Increased levels of noise, dust and vibration
• Construction vehicles travelling to and from the worksite via Roma Street
• Delivery of materials and equipment to the worksite including at night
• Temporary traffic and pedestrian changes on Roma Street and surrounding streets.

If you want to know more, all of this information is available in PDF form:

• Works notice – Roma Street Station site – October and November 2024