The Goulburn Performing Arts Centre has been created out of what was the original Goulburn Town Hall built in 1887.
The works involved the repurposing of the historic 2-storey Town Hall building fronting Goulburn’s main street, being subtly linked to a new state of the art Performing Arts Centre built at the rear of the site.
Access for construction purposes was difficult with buildings on either side built to property boundaries and rear lane access only for deliveries. This lane had to be shared with Department of Justice prisoner vans – these requiring uninterrupted access to the adjacent Court House, on court sitting days.
A tower crane was utilized to get materials into and around the site, the crane installed high enough to allow the installation of a 26-line fly tower built over the stage area, & with sufficient capacity to install precast concrete perimeter walls.
Five separate Fire Zones formed part of the design which added a level of complexity to the work, particularly services reticulation, however the result is a very fine example of the adaptive use of an historic building.