SYDNEY’S EASTERN CREEK SPEEDWAY CONSTRUCTION LATEST

WORK FORCE AT FULL CAPACITY

BY DENNIS NEWLYN

Sydney Metro have advised NSW construction sites are now back at full capacity (so long as workers meet vaccination requirements).

That means work at Eastern Creek Speedway is ramping up to a new schedule.

It’s envisaged longer working hours will push the project harder to reach a pre-Christmas objective to allow for track testing.

Sydney Metro and their contractor Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure (ACI) have initiated a three-zone COVID safe construction programme to minimise any future COVID outbreaks interrupting progress at the Eastern Creek Speedway site.

ACI are pulling out all the stops. It is proposed to have construction completed before Christmas so that track preparation and testing can commence.

A racing season commencement has yet to be determined but early indications are it’s proposed for the early part of 2022 provided work remains on schedule due to the prevailing COVID environment. The construction programme was hit hard by the COVID lock down, especially as the site sits right in the heart of Western Sydney’s high risk LGAs.

The shut down impacted the programme by more than just losing working weeks: the entire site had to be closed and the workforce demobilised, then the workforce and construction programme later remobilised.

The availability and numbers of workers allowed on site presents an ongoing challenge.

(Check out the latest Eastern Creek Speedway construction photos showing track safety fence construction, grandstand seating formwork well underway and race team pit garages.)