Woolloongabba, QLD
Woolloongabba: commercial and mixed-use with basement car parks.
Concrete Cancer Brisbane inspects and repairs concrete in Woolloongabba, where the typical buildings are mixed-use, commercial, basement parking, and the written scope comes before any repair price.
The Gabba's mix of commercial and residential brings basement and podium car parks into the picture, and car park soffits are their own problem. Water and grime arrive on vehicles rather than in the air, water ponds where the falls were never right, and where ventilation is poor, humidity stays high. Spalling over a parking bay is a falling-object risk above a car or a person, so it is worth treating with more urgency than the same area of balcony.
| Typical buildings | mixed-use, commercial, basement parking |
|---|---|
| Nearest Moreton Bay shore (salt air) | about 14.0 km (straight line) |
| Distance to the Brisbane River | about 0.8 km (straight line) |
| Ground height within 250 m | about 11–20 m above sea level |
| Brisbane CBD | about 2.1 km (straight line) |
| Main streets in the suburb | Logan Road, Stanley Street, Vulture Street and Annerley Road |
| Parks in the suburb | Woolloongabba Place Park, Jurgens Street Park and Queen Bess Street Park |
Woolloongabba's centre is 14.0 km from Moreton Bay, in AS 3600's near-coastal band (class B1), and the Brisbane River is 0.8 km away. Airborne salt is a minor factor at that distance, so the car park question in the detail above is about water: where it ponds, and how long the soffit above stays damp. In a basement or podium car park, map the ponding after rain and test the concrete at those spots, not only at the visible spalls.
Prices are on the cost page and the measuring method is on the about page. Nearest suburbs with a page here: Kangaroo Point (about 1 km), New Farm (about 2 km), Coorparoo (about 3 km), Toowong (about 5 km).
The suburbs below cover the 1960s–80s walk-up belt and the bayside strip, where salt air can reach the steel faster.
Tell us what the concrete is doing. We will inspect it and give your committee a written scope and a quote it can actually vote on.
