This build involved the construction of a new Coles neighborhood shopping centre. This included a 9,071m2 basement carpark, specialty tenancies, childcare centre, on-grade car park and McDonald's Pad Site.
Extensive staging to the external areas including maintaining the only delivery access point which was critical in ensuring that access was not only provided to the Coles development, but also to the McDonald’s development who used this same delivery path.
This project was built through the peak of the COVID pandemic and was situated within the Blacktown City Council LGA which were at the time under the tightest restrictions. The project team firstly had a 2-week shutdown on site prior to handover. Once the site was reopened the team needed to ensure that the Government Rules and Regulations were adhered to. The extra work this required was immense, but with meticulous planning Mainbrace was able to mitigate the effects.
The use of recycled asphalt to the external car park was a great sustainable solution to save the client costs and reduce the carbon footprint. Solar panels were installed on the Kingspan insulated panel roof as well as under slab insulation to the Basement. Double glazed windows were also selected for all external shop front glazing. 
Coles Schofields is a benchmark ECI project. Supported by their extensive retail cost data, Mainbrace were able to rationalise the concept design without sacrificing NLA or finish to achieve the 16% cost reduction the client required while still achieving a high standard of finish and program.