Recent Projects

Northern Festival Centre – Port Pirie

The Northern Festival Centre is an existing fully equipped multi-purpose arts centre that accommodates a diverse range of media and performing arts from live stage shows through cinema screenings and corporate seminars. The Centre forms and supports an important part of the regions culture and is a great asset to the local and surrounding community.

The Centre itself is now north of 40 years old and in need of refurbishment/upgrade in certain areas. GCJ Constructions tendered and won the Disabled Access Lift upgrade which comprised the installation of a disabled compliant lift within the existing building and tied into an existing staircase and landing along with the associated works involving modifications to the existing

stairwell and the building of a new landing to tie into existing second floor landing structure. An important upgrade for the community, this has facilitated the ability for disabled patrons to be able to utilise and access the upper balcony of the existing theatre.

Grand Junction Tavern

The Grand Junction Hotel project comprised of a major refurbishment to the interior space throughout most of the facility along with a ‘facelift’ to much of the exterior. The need of the client to remain operational throughout the build process necessitated staged construction. Bathrooms were completed first in a stage manner to allow for an operational bathroom facility at all times followed by an extensive refurbishment of the front bar, TAB, and dining areas along with a facelift to front façade and extensive re-paint inside and out all whilst the gaming room remained operational.

Trinity College GLA’s

The Trinity College GLA’s project comprised the construction of two new ‘GLA’s’ (General Learning Areas) on the adjoining North and South Campus at Trinity College in Gawler. Whilst the North GLA has a substantially bigger footprint, the concept for the two new buildings was quite similar with a large ‘breakout’ area through the centre of the structures surrounded by classrooms. All classrooms are sectioned off with extensive glazing and large glazed sliding doors to create an open space feel whilst still being able to section off separate classrooms when necessary. Given the increased size on the building, North GLA breakout area is essentially an atrium with a raised ceiling profile and substantial high-level windows running down the length of the structure.

Whilst the structures were relatively simple in design, both buildings required extensive and detailed civil works for both structure and surrounding areas to achieve a design that meshed with the extensive existing infrastructure on-site. The two buildings were also incorporated into the existing facilities control systems including synergy with the existing mechanical, communications, and fire systems. Both structures were able to be delivered on time and on budget.

Gawler Medical Centre

A stand-out project for GCJ delivered in partnership with MediFit for the internal fit-out and local clients the Georges, the Gawler Medical Centre site is situated on a property in the heart of Gawler that still had its original 1800’s era Heritage listed stone barn occupying the site. Originally stated for refurbishment, the condition of the original barn meant full demolition was necessary. Utmost care was taken in the disassembly of the run-down structure in order to be able to re-use the original stone when re-building a new heritage style structure on the original barn footprint reusing a combination of the stone that was able to be salvaged from the original building and matching stone bought in from specific locations along the Yorke Peninsula.

The main structure is of modern construction with the heavy slope of the site complimenting the split-level design. Patrons are able to conveniently access health services with building access thoroughly planned during design with access from front street level, under croft carpark and lift and also through a connecting walkway that runs from the ‘upper’ level of the medical centre through to an adjoining multi-storey council-owned carpark.\

The development makes use of quite traditional styling and architectural details to help compliment the re-built heritage barn all whilst leaning on modern construction techniques and innovations to deliver what is a highly aesthetic but also a very functional design that compliments the Township of Gawler with a heralding of years past all whilst looking forward to the Township’s future needs.

Main & Cherry – Cellar Door

A previous client engaged GC&J Constructions due to previous projects GC&J successfully completed for the family. This set the foundation of the collaborative nature the Main & Cherry cellar door project had between the client, Architect and GC&J. It was clear to us from the beginning that the building was designed to complement the existing geography and take advantage of the substantial views on offer. With this in mind, substantial planning and design work went into the window and structural steel detailing to compliment the views on offer. The cellar door itself has an impeccable finish that was strategically managed as to not distract from its geographical location being a “building in the vines.”

The build has two key zones that are identified as public and private. All being open to the public day to day however if the need arises the private tasting space can become its own booked out space with presentation capabilities for conferences, weddings, and other similar functions. The glass sliding stacker door offers that segregation as needed whilst also providing acoustic separation.

The marriage between the two zones also featured the transition of building methodology with the public tasting area having open raked ceilings giving the feeling of height and space whilst the private tastings area features a coffered ceiling details with a large fireplace to create an intimate space.

An added complexity comes with the angle the private area runs at in relation to the public area. Significant preplanning went into the truss design and structural steel shop drawings to ensure the intent of simple roof lines were met. Substantial collaboration and input from Architect, GCJ and sub-contractors throughout the design phase allowed for an incredibly aesthetic design whilst also keeping a high-level of buildability, a showcase of a collaborative design environment leaning on the differing expertise of involved parties.

Gawler Arms Hotel

The Gawler Arms Hotel project involved the conversion of a second-floor function centre within an existing multi-storey hotel in the heart of Gawler into 14 multi-use hotel rooms comprising of different sized suites along with a fully compliant disabled suite.

Construction involved the building of suites above a suspended concrete floor that had not been designed to encase the extensive plumbing the new rooms required so to facilitate this a new timber raised floor was built above the suspended slab to achieve the service cavity required for the extensive new plumbing. Interestingly, the disabled access room is set at suspended slab level, lower than the other 13 to deliver a fully compliant disabled access room with associated bathroom and access compliancy.

As a modern compliant build, the 14 suites have also been built with fully enclosed fire compartmentation to each suite along with an electronic access and security system that has been designed to work in with both the existing access and security and addressable fire system.

Immanuel Lutheran School Gawler

This project for Immanuel Gawler involved an extensive refurbishment and alteration of the existing stone and double brick building which incorporated a gymnasium and multiple classrooms. Many of the internal double brick walls used for partitioning classrooms from the gymnasium area were deleted, as such extensive propping during demolition was utilised before installing a substantial structural steel package to provide support across the deleted sections of structural walling. Once structurally supported, these new openings saw the fitting of substantial glass partitioning with incorporated large glass sliding doors, along with double glazing to exterior windows achieving the feel of a large open atrium area, whilst still providing effective natural lighting and acoustic properties to classroom.