Belmadar won the 2015 MBA Excellence in Construction Award: Refurbishment, Renovation, Extension up to $ 3,000,000 for the Maroubra Synagogue.

The MBA Excellence in Construction Awards are the commercial building industry’s most prestigious awards, attracting entries from the state’s largest commercial, industrial and civil contractors in a range of categories and price divisions. 

This project was necessitated by the requirement for increased security to the Maroubra Synagogue. This required the installation of two blast walls to the northern and southern facades. The work included the construction of new privacy walls to Anzac Parade and the associated landscape works to three elevations. Belmadar maintained access throughout for regular worship services and carried out the work with restricted access confined by Anzac Parade, a side street and rear lane as well as a block of home units. The footings to the southern wall was excavated by hand to 6m deep; the wall was 250mm thick poured against an existing wall; the northern wall construction necessitated the demolition of the existing wall while back-propping the roof, which remained. The works were carried out to a high standard under difficult conditions.

GFWAust carried out sand stabilisation using microfine cements so that the footings could be excavated, and when contaminated soil was found inside the building GFWAust were asked again to stabilise the soil with permeation grouting so that it could be excavated.