Fairbrother have been appointed by Enmore Enterprises to construct an iconic $10 million five storey office block in Cimitiere Street in central Launceston.

The development, known as Cimitiere House will provide four levels or around 4600m2 of lettable office space, with the ground floor to house a café, retail tenancies and a car park.

The building is likely to attract a Green Star Rating, having been specifically designed by project architects Glenn Smith Associates and project engineers Pitt & Sherry to incorporate numerous passive and low energy mechanical systems to produce a green building.

The project is additionally unique because of the full one metre thick base slab required, which as a result of the nature of the soil on site and proximity of the underlying water table is more than double the standard slab thickness.  To achieve a slab of this thickness, the project required a continuous 18 hour concrete pour delivering some 1400 cubic metres of concrete.  The pour occurred on a weekend to minimise disruption to city traffic, and involved a major team effort from over 30 Fairbrother employees who worked under lights all through a Saturday night to finish the pour.

Progress on Site

The scaffolding is now down and the exterior works is coming to an end. The lower levels are all but complete internally. The 3rd and fourth floor fit outs for Rae & Partners and Pitt & Sherry are well underway. We are expecting to have practical completion by the end of this month. The premier will be opening the building on the 31st of March. We should be finished completed by mid April.

Cimitiere House Update: Concrete Pour and Tower Crane Construction
(14 March, 2008)

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Cimitiere House Update: First and Second Storey Construction
(4 June, 2008)

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Cimitiere House Progress Report No.3
(29 February, 2008)

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Cimitiere House Update: Third/Fourth Storey and Roof Construction
(1 December, 2008)

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