With staff and students returning to the Lithgow TAFE for enrolments this week, the festive season has been a period of hard work for the team upgrading Lithgow’s TAFE campus, with estimates the new ‘student hub’ and entrance will be completed a month earlier than expected.
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Last November MP Paul Toole announced a $1.6 million investment into the TAFE college from the state government, holding a ‘turning of the sod’ ceremony on campus.
The works will create a ‘student hub’ adjoining all the college’s student services including the library, counselling spaces, administration, disability support and technology rooms in one centralised location.
The hub will also connect the campus’ two buildings to create a new formal entrance.
Site foreman Craig Grover said that since November the internal areas in the building had been gutted, with the new walls now gyprocked and all the electrical and communication wiring in place.
“We’re in the process of pouring the footings for the front balcony and very soon the new facade will really start to take to shape,” he said.
David Hines, the director of Hines Constructions, previously told the Lithgow Mercury the project would be completed in June but said he is now expecting it will be finished in May.
“We probably could have had it done in April but there were some variations, so there’s been some extra work on the service.
“It’s been going really well and it will be good for the students of TAFE when it’s finished.”
