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| March 2021 by the clients and architects for many years,” Elvis says. “They just couldn’t find a build- er willing to take it on. But I jumped at the chance.” An earlier example of the Mardini Con- struction’s capability is the Freshwater House, which the company delivered in 2010. That project was also challenging to construct, and was finished to Elvis’ manda- tory incredibly high standard. “At first glance, that project looks like a more-or-less normal two-storey house,” El- vis says. “But that was all exposed, on-site formed concrete. In a situation like that, there’s no margin of error.” A third example – among a list of dozens – is Harry’s Park, a 2012 public domain proj- ect. The park was conceived to be a publicly used facility in memory of the late Harry Seidler, in honour of his contribution to ar- chitecture in Australia. Like Freshwater, that project involved “Class 1, white concrete – all exposed, and in this case, curved, in the Harry Seidler tradition.” “Again, there was zero room for error,” El- vis says. “There was no second chance at get- ting it right. It’s like a live performance, and it involved very close relationships with the engineers and Harry Seidler architects.”