| This event will also include a short guided tour of Burnie’s exciting waterfront development that has taken shape over the last couple of years. Enjoy a visit to the Makers Workshop then a twilight stroll along the boardwalk to the brand new waterfront space featuring a terraced sea wall and wet play area with sea creatures before winding up the evening with a dinner at Bayviews Restaurant overlooking magnificent West Beach to Bass Strait. | |
| Venue | Makers Workshop - Bass Highway Burnie (access opposite BP Service Station), Meet in the carpark on the north side of the Makers Workshop Building, TAS |
| Date | Thursday, 23 February 5.15pm to 6.30pm |
| Event Contact | Rowan Sharman |
| Contact Phone | 6430 5752 |
| Contact Email | rsharman@burnie.net |
| Downloads | nw_site_visit_bass_highway_23022012.pdf(217KB) |
The Bass Highway/West Park Grove Intersection at Burnie is currently being upgraded to a four way signalised junction to provide a new access to the West Park Precinct. The foreshore precinct on Burnie’s West Beach headland next to the new Makers Workshop and West Park Oval provides for exciting future development opportunities for built and recreational space.
The $3M Burnie Council project part funded by the Tasmanian Government includes a local realignment of the Bass Highway, a west bound slip lane to West Park Grove and caters for all turn movements into and out of the site. To add to the complexity of the project there are a plethora of underground services to be relocated outside the highway travel lanes including a major sewer rising main, gas, water and power trunk mains.
Nic Bromhall, Project Manager for Shaw Contracting and Rowan Sharman, Manager Engineering Services for Burnie City Council will host a Technical Tour of the project. Work began in early October 2011 and is scheduled for completion in April 2012. There will be many interesting civil construction features to look over.
