...your place of learning

This site will document the progress of the construction of a community training facility, using straw bale construction, at Berkeley Vale on the NSW Central Coast.




April 2010

April has been the most exciting month of the Project to date with the installation of the steel framework seeing the building take shape.

The crane arrives...
Installing the main columns...
Building starts to take shape...


With the roofing and insulation installed. We can see where the clerestory windows will be
Bathroom areas framed up...


View from the top of the hill looking down to the south. The building faces almost north.


Looking west at the building from behind the existing hall. You can see some of the Conservation and Landscape work that has been done on the slope in the foreground.