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| Our club, together with the Brimbank City Council and Keilor-St. Bernard's athletics club, are pleased to announce that construction work on the track upgrade project is now well underway. The construction work will take many months but with some reasonable weather conditions the plan is to have the new track ready by the start of next season (Sept 2011). During the construction phase we will publish photos progressively so that all interested parties and members can see how the track work is progressing. By doing this we ask that members of our clubs and the general public stay away from the track which now a designated construction site. |
Track "Unofficial" Opening (4 Feb 2012)
Whilst is wasn't the official opening, as you can see our members made the most of an opportunity to walk the new track prior to the start of last Saturday's competition. The "official" opening is still to be determined with the Brimbank Council but we look forward to that day as an opportunity to showcase our great club to various VIPs and invite along many past senior and junior life members who would be thrilled to see that we finally achieved the dream.
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from Nathan (opposite)To our President Sam Barbuto, Craig Hill (VP) and the current and past centre executive, On behalf of the athletes and their families we thank you for the many years of effort to get our new track. My dad tells me that the new track was proposed almost 25 years ago when our club was moved from the Keilor sports ground - and it wasn't until the early 2000s that the then president Tim Golder (see above in the daggy bucket hat) again kicked off a bid for a new track. Then in 2004, President Warren Hosking and Tim Golder joined forces to lobby the State Government and Brimbank Council for a new track - along the way we got our new clubrooms but still had to wait until 2010 when our current president Sam Barbuto finally got everyone to agree to build a new track. My dad said Sam knows how to "close a deal" and Sam and his VP Craig Hill worked very hard over the last two seasons to ensure that not only did we get a fantastic track but were able to continue our competition at other venues whilst the track was being built. Sam, as shown in the picture above, has every reason to be proud of what he and his team have been able to achieve and as for now - now that the hard work has be done - I'm sure my mate Thomas Barbuto (BU9) will be glad to get his dad back! I would also like to thank Trent Prince and the people from the Brimbank City Council for building us a new track so that not only can we use the track each week but now my school mates will also be able to use the track for school sports days. Hopefully now they'll understand why I love athletics so much.
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Track Update (30 January 2012)
As you can see from the pics below the track surfacing work has been fully completed and marking of lanes is well underway.
Therefore this week's competition will be held at our new track - Keilor Park Athletics Track, Stadium Drive, Keilor Park.
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Track Update (19 January 2012)
Track progress is going extremely well......
As per the photo’s below the final surface of Polyurethane RED EPDM Rubber is going very well and is scheduled to be finished by
Thursday 19th January. Surveying for the line marking will be done this weekend with line marking to be completed by the end of next week.
This means that we are right on schedule to compete for the first time back at Keilor on Saturday 4th February.
Further updates on track will be posted early next week, once we see line marking progress
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Final Layer of Red EPDM Rubber granules / Polyurethane coat |
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Track Update (13 January 2012)
Track construction started again on the 28th December and has progressed very well with terrific weather over the
past two weeks. The base layer of SBR Black rubber granules was completed around the whole track and Long / Triple run ups on the 3rd January.
Stage 2 which involved installing the red liquid waterproof layer that sits between the Black SBR Rubber granules and the final surface layer
was finished Wednesday 11th January.
The 3rd and final stage layer of Red EPDM Rubber granules / Polyurethane coat has started and will take approx 7 days - with line marking
to take another 5-6 days after final the surface layer completed.
As mentioned progress is going very well in January and further updates and photo’s will be updated on website next week.
At this stage, weather permitting, we are anticipating our first week of competition on our new track back at Keilor to be
Saturday 4th February.
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Layer of Red EPDM Rubber granules / Polyurethane coat |
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Base layer of SBR Black rubber granules |
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Road base re-laid |
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7 May - Track road base laid
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16March - Track concrete perimeter added
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3 March - Base layer added
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End of Week 4/5 (11 Feb) - Excavation Work Continues
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End of Week 3 (28 Jan) - Excavation Work Underway
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