Concrete was being poured behind Three Tree Lodge on the morning of Thursday, September 7, marking out Lithgow’s greater capacity to care for residents with dementia.
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The new dementia unit at the Lithgow aged care home will provide eight more beds for residents with dementia, in addition to the ten beds currently available.
For the site’s supervisor, Paul Murray, the morning was all about getting the concrete out and even.
“We have about 100 cubes of concrete going in,” he said.
Construction on the unit, which will provide a shared home-like space for eight residents, began a month ago.
“We’ve done all the excavation, put out the retaining walls and some demolition of what was there,” Mr Murray said.
“We’ve got the trusses coming tomorrow and the frames will be stood up on Monday, we’ll also start on the external drainage.”
Funding for the $1.2 million extension to Three Tree Lodge was secured through the federal government’s Rural Regional and Other Special Needs Building Fund Grant, which aims to provide funding for capital works costs of residential aged care services.
Mark Dobson, the builder overseeing construction, estimated the unit will be complete by early 2018.
