Case Study
PowerPiles Re-support Apartment Building
PROJECT PROFILE Summary The two storey, double brick apartment block was built in the 1930s less than 100m from the Elwood Canal, in Melbourne. The building has solid brick internal and external walls on strip footings with timber and terrazzo elevated floors. This section of Elwood is reclaimed land, with up to 2.4 metres of silty clays overlying natural clay. The tidal movement of water in the canal and frequent flood events wash water thro