THE TREASURY

HOTEL

Tyrone group was engaged to undertake restoration works at the Old Treasury Building, one of Perth’ s most significant heritage properties. The works transformed the Old Treasury Building into a premium 6-star boutique hotel. The original building was completed in the early 1900’s and lay vacant for the past 20 years before the mammoth restoration process began.

Tyrone Group undertook masonry, concreting, demolition and scaffolding works. Initial works involved removing and sorting over 400 samples of bricks and mortar through-out the building and taking to a laboratory for structural assessment. Due to the proximity and fragile state of the building which was situated between St Georges Terrace and Barack Street, all delivery’s had to be split into smaller weights and at times hand-carried inside to spread the weight across the original timber beam floors. Tyrone Group was responsible for installing bearing pads for the structural steel in line with high engineer’s specifications. The structural steel was precast in our premises off-site.

Tyrone Group also had to submit propping plans for the engineer’s approval before demolishing and rebuilding 32 of the segmental arches in the old postal hall. The original handmade bricks were cleaned and reused and Tyrone undertook demolition of a ‘walk in safe’ in an adjoining room to salvage additional bricks from the era that was required to complete the extension of the arches and to accommodate the new lowered basement floor.