Brown Consulting provided structural and civil engineering design services for the Toyota Australia’s Head Office in Port Melbourne. The structure includes an open plan office space with minimum columns and allows maximum natural lighting through full length perimeter glazing and no bracing bays. A large column free auditorium was made possible by the use of 16m continuous composite steel transfer beams over the supporting columns.
Structural Projects
Smart Structures was the design engineer of the global headquarters of bionic ear manufacturer Cochlear. Designed in partnership with architects Toland Williams, the 6-storey building (including two basement car parks with warehouse substation) houses 1,100 staff as well as the company’s main manufacturing and research facility.
Fitzgerald Constructions engaged Brown Consulting to provide structural design services for the Seafarers Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Yarra River to connect the new Convention Centre with the Docklands precinct. The architect, Grimshaw Partners, had a very clear vision for the Seafarers Bridge, which consisted of a bridge deck supported by steel ties connected to elliptical arches over a main span of 75 metres. Seafarers Bridge was both a complex and challenging project due to the bridge’s unique architectural design, tight budget and fast construction timeline.
Epping Plaza Shopping Centre first opened in 1996 and is located 21km north of Melbourne’s CBD. Brown Consulting has provided structure design services for the Centre’s extensions in 2007, 2009 and 2011.
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The project required additions and alternations to existing classroom buildings as well as the construction of a new complex with two indoor sports halls & a multi-purpose hall on level 2 and one of Singapore’s first competition class roof-top hockey fields (17m above ground) at the school.
Fitzgerald Constructions engaged Brown Consulting to provide structural design services for the Seafarers Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Yarra River to connect the new Convention Centre with the Docklands precinct. The architect, Grimshaw Partners, had a very clear vision for the Seafarers Bridge, which consisted of a bridge deck supported by steel ties connected to elliptical arches over a main span of 75 metres. Seafarers Bridge was both a complex and challenging project due to the bridge’s unique architectural design, tight budget and fast construction timeline.
Holy Spirit Care Services (HSCS) provides residential and retirement living and high-care options. Due to continued demand for services, a new development comprising two six storey independent living towers featuring 128, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units as well as another three storey, 10 bed high care facility with residential apartments, is planned. The facility will also feature a chapel, gym, pool and parking for 130 cars.
The Werribee Bridge is a two traffic lane and dual footpath road bridge over deep ravine with spans of 20m and 30m. The deck comprises of a reinforced concrete slab and pre-tensioned Super T deck beams, launched with overhead launching truss.
Piers comprised of reinforced concrete columns being direct extensions from shallow bored cast in situ piles, socketed into Basalt rock. Design loading to HLP 320.
Brown Consulting provided the design, project management and construction supervision services for this $18 million upgrade of the Monaro Highway. The project included duplicating 1.5km of highway from Canberra Avenue to Newcastle Street as well as the construction of new bridges over Canberra Avenue and a rail line.