Light industrial Warehouse Complex

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This light industrial warehouse development is located at Brookvale NSW.  The from units are constructed from braced steel frames which are clad in precast tilt up panels. The panels were cast on site so its was necessary to develop a casting plan at the design and development stage of the project. The precast panels  use galvanised […]

New Office Building – Manly

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This three storey office building is located in the centre of Manly. The building is supported from a reinforced concrete raft slab forming the ground floor. This slab is founded on the naturally occurring dense sands. The second floor is a suspended reinforced concrete beam and slab construction which is supported on concrete columns. The upper levels […]

Continuous Composite Construction

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The extensions to this RSL club used an innovative composite design method. The floors are constructed from a series of  steel beams, steel profiled sheet decking and a concrete infill floor topping. The whole floor structure is tied together using on-site through-deck welded shear studs. The steel beams run continuously in two directions to reduce deflections and […]

Mini Brewery

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The brewery was originally part of the Tamworth Golf and County Club (NSW) – It has since been deconstructed and reassembled at another location. The building is supported on a stiffened concrete raft slab. The building frame is a galvanised steel portal frame clad internally with  insulated  sandwich panels to both the wall and roof. Externally the building is  finished […]

New Apartments Manly Beach NSW

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This block of apartments is situated in Manly NSW. The building is of typical loadbearing brick walls and concrete slab construction. The basement car-park has a bored cast in-situ perimeter wall.  This wall provides support to the adjoining properties during the excavation and construction of the basement. The soils conditions at the site  are beach sand […]

Design Sketches and Details

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Detailed sketches are provided when necessary to ensure that the intent of the design is made very clear to builder. Such sketches can often be sufficient to undertake small scale building works.

Building Defects Investigation

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The building started life as an hotel and was later converted into  residential apartments . At the time of the conversion the building works had in parts been sub-standard. The original building defects were supposedly fixed under a Home Owners Warranty Insurance claim – these works were also in part defective resulting in another claim by […]