pendulum bearings located on top of the ground floor columns. This results in reduced floor accelerations for the building above the isolation plane, which then equates to reduced damage to the structure...
are also sized and selected to carry 120 per cent of the building load, while ensuring top energy-efficient operations – both during and outside of working hours. Condenser water flows at 50 per cent...
ultimate business environment. Sustainability and Energy conservationSustainability, energy conservation and environmental considerations were all top priorities for the architects and engineers...
significant challenge was to create a comfortable environment within a building that has a 100 per cent glazed facade which is facing north and east....
Collaborating with eminent practitioners from around the worldTo ensure top-notch services to the project, the Singapore team collaborated closely with teams in Hong Kong and Australia. The expertise...
in April 2016, The Club’s structure meets the new building standards (NBS) 100 per cent for a normal risk to life category building.The Club’s new facility is both a beacon of sea safety and the landmark...
box within a concrete box’ which created void spaces between the walls of the ‘boxes’ which we could exploit to provide passive cooling of the 100 per cent outside air being delivered to the theatre...
used on the project to check the building’s performance under lateral loads. An innovative roof top tuned mass damper controls the tower sway movements to acceptable limits....
is considered to be extreme, with its height/width ratio of 12.Aurecon’s approach to this challenge was to provide water damping-tanks at the top of the building. This limited the peak building...
concrete column that will reach into the skies. At the top of the tower is an oval-shaped bud that will house ten observation decks, including The Pinnacle Room, which will offer unprecedented...
parks at the edge of the fixed roof when in the opened position, completes the structure, allowing an astounding straight-line dimension of 1.25 m between the top of the operable roof panel and the top...
increase in usage the facility has achieved confirms that that’s exactly what they have delivered. The building structure was seismically reworked and braced to achieve in excess 100 per cent...
Constructing over the top of a rail lineParts of The Reef is to be built close to Singapore’s mass rapid transit system, requiring construction works to account for loading and vibrations from...
Line railway network since its establishment more than 100 years ago.The most challenging aspect of the East Rail Bridge Bearing Replacement was replacing 108 bridge bearings as 12-car trains ran...
than 35 metres tall, wider than Queensland’s Suncorp Stadium and capable of stacking coal unloaded from 100 train wagons in just a single hour, this incredible machine is the only one of its kind...
days of the Games, 100 000 people used the service a day, nearly four times the normal daily average. Since Stage 2 opened, light rail patronage has increased by 33 per cent and has grown to over 10.5...
was used to optimise the structural design based on bridge technology. The bridge-strength standard concrete columns around the outer edge have an estimated life of more than 100 years...
individual concrete panels. The two-metre wide and up to 3.5 metre long precast panels were manufactured locally in Victoria and weigh up to 3 tonnes each.At the top of the retaining walls, garden...
by 100 per cent renewable electricity. With our extensive experience delivering sustainable building designs, Aurecon was appointed by Mirvac Developments to set the direction for the building services...