Client
Jeta Gardens
Location
Bethania, Queensland
Completed
2011
Value
$25 million
Role
Structural and civil engineer
Jeta Gardens is the first retirement and aged care resort in Australia to base its design, services and management on eastern values and philosophies.
The resort is designed and operated with facilities and activities catering to every aspect of residents’ needs and wellbeing. It is a retirees’ paradise created to offer the best lifestyle and surrounds for their enjoyment.
The $25 million project consists of single storey retirement villas, double storey retirement apartments, a club house and an aged care facility. The site also provides the community with
hectares of landscaped gardens and parklands including a Chinese garden and lakes.
Our role
Woolacotts was engaged to provide engineering consultancy services for the stage one works, which involved the civil operational works for the
subdivision, road design, creation of parkland fronting Logan River, and bridge design.
The project scope involved the design and documentation a shared vehicle maintenance bridge and path, concrete path removal, fence relocation, kerb, gutter, path and driveway, as well as retaining walls and provision of certification after construction.
In addition, Woolacotts also prepared erosion and sediment control plans and provided confirmation of no excess fill in the areas that would be inundated by the design flood event.
Finally, Woolacotts completed inspections and reporting during construction on conformance with design intent.
Other aged care projects
Woolacotts has completed many aged care projects around Australia, including:
— Ingleburn Aged Care Facility
— Wadalba Group Homes
— Sutherland Aged Care Facility
— Peakhurst Aged Care Facility