Roly Poly Early Learning Centre

The re-development for this site, which was approved by Randwick Council on April 14, 2015, involved demolition, alterations and additions to the former RSL Club building and the establishment of a childcare centre. Catering for 90 children, including new parking for seven vehicles off the rear lane. The beautiful yet dilapidated old Art-Deco building had past its best days, as a result, developer Roly Poly sort the site to establish one of its state of the art early learning centres.

Roly-Poly Child Care is a family run service with more than 20 years in pre-school education. The highly passionate and committed team nurture a culture of trust and dignity in which the children thrive. This was the perfect site to expand their family business.

After initial consultation between local council, designers and developers, construction company Foresight, was engaged to commence works in 2016. As an interactive centre for children, every level will be utilised for maximum outdoor play area in the fresh sea-side air. Maintaining the integrity of the old facade and joining the inner structure with new concrete slabs, all the details were of the utmost importance for waterproofing and durability. All construction joints were treated with Penebar SW swellable waterstops. Sealing the construction joints. As a result, preventing any water making its way through.

All the new concrete utilized Penetron Admix to provide an integral waterproof and durable concrete. Penetron Admix was chosen as it increases the durability and life span of the concrete by 60 years or more. Easy to mix into the concrete during batching at the Boral plant, it eliminated the need for any surface-applied protection systems. Therefore, maximizing time on the construction site and saving money.  Further more, good concrete practice was observed in curing all the slabs using a hydro-carbon resin based curing compound, Supercure HR.