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These buildings are constructed from a range of standard materials and structural methods employed by the Department of Public Works (DPW) during the 1950s, including: prefabricated Boulton & Paul (B&P) timber units (blocks A and B); timber trusses (blocks A and C); and steel open-web trusses (blocks D and E). Building A6, Block G, and the ...
Plans for a new Southport State High School, drawn by the Department of Public Works (DPW) and approved in October 1954, demonstrate an organic planning approach, with the buildings orientated at various angles and connected by covered ways. [30]
The suburban timber school buildings, Blocks A and B (1916), Block C (1939), Block D (1931) and Block E (planned 1940, built 1950), represent the culmination of years of experimentation with light, classroom size and ventilation by the Department of Public Works. These standard government designed school buildings were an architectural response ...
Jun. 28—ROCKPORT — New, trimmed down designs of the proposed DPW Facility will be unveiled at the start of July. From there, the DPW Facility Building Committee will decide if it wants to ...
The Department of Public Works (DPW)-designed extensions to Block C (1956) and Block D (1960), the highset timber school building with semi-enclosed stair, Block E, (1956, extended c. 1957, c. 1958) and the administration bridging wing (1956, incorporating 1953 covered way) demonstrate the evolution of DPW designs during the 1950s, based on ...
Even before the October 1929 stock market crash, the Queensland Government initiated an Unemployment Relief Scheme, through a work program administered by the Department of Public Works (DPW). This included painting and repairs to school buildings. [29] [30] By mid-1930 men were undertaking grounds improvement works to schools under the scheme.
It retains the Department of Public Works sectional school building set in landscaped grounds with tennis courts, sports oval, mature shade trees and forestry plots. The school is important to the area, having been a focus for the community, and generations of students have been taught there.
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