Commercial

City of Canning Multipurpose Leisure & Community Centre

PS Structures was engaged in early 2011 to construct the multi purpose Leisure and Community Centre (now known as the Cannington Leisureplex) for the City of Canning. The project consisted of a 2 court sports hall, gymnasium with ablution facilities, 25m lap pool, leisure pool with beach entry, water slide and external water play park, spa and sauna, library, function and meeting rooms, administration block, a crèche and a cafe. The externals were a combination of landscaping and parking. The project consisted of a large number of tilt-up panels, some of which were feature panels. The other cladding materials were zinc cladding and Trespa cladding. The challenges that the project team had to overcome consisted of the sequencing and locations for casting tilt-up panels, the large spans of structural steel trusses over the swimming pools and sports hall. High voltage cables had to be relocated due to them being too close the to the second floor of the function building. The gymnasium was a curved building which required precise workmanship with the zinc cladding. PS Structures completed the project to the satisfaction of the architect and client. The Sports Hall Consisted of a Tasmanian Oak Gunns Sprung timber floor laid with appropriate expansion joints and vapour barrier to ensure the longevity of the timber floor, the basketball back boards where installed using a motorised pulley system to enable the boards to be raised and lowered at the clients leisure creating flexibility of the courts to be used as either basketball, volleyball, net ball, babmington or volleyball. The gymnasium was split in to 2 sections, the free weight section which was laid out on rubber flooring and the cardio machines which were installed on a raised timber floor finished with American oak Polyflor Plank vinyl flooring. The free weight section had a raked acoustic rippletone ceiling installed above all the free weights for acoustic and aesthetic reasons. The Leisureplex consisted of 2 pools, one leisure pool with two parts, one part being a 25m walking or aerobics and the other part a leisure bathing pool. The other pool was a 25m lap pool. They were constructed out of a reinforced concrete shell. The pool, hall ceilings consisted of a full vapour barrier versilux ceiling with Acoustic corruline ceiling panels inset to control the noise within the pool hall and aesthetical appearance. The services for the building are of a high tech nature, particularly the mechanical system as the heat generated from the Air Conditioning is used to heat the pools making the building very efficient to run. This reduces the amount of time the geothermal bore or gas boiler needs to run. The project also consisted of a grey water treatment unit used to provide treated water to the toilets for flushing and irrigation. “Extremely Professional. Excellent Project Manager and very competent Site Manager” Paul Merlo - Senior Manager, City of Canning CLIENT: CHRISTOU DESIGN GROUP ARCHITECT: CHRISTOU DESIGN GROUP
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Kings Park Refurbishment of Existing Office Building & External Additions

FESA HQ Cockburn Central

The 7,500m² three storey development is located in Cockburn Central, Jandakot. The works comprise of a new 24hour emergency services complex for FESA built over three floors with a plant room at roof level and secure carpark facility. The structure is a reinforced concrete frame with structural steel roof and open concrete plant room. Roof coverings are metal sheeting. The external fabric of the building comprises of CFC paneling with detailed sun protection with aluminum frames system totally glazed. Precast panels with distinct patterning are fixed on the west and east elevations. External works comprise of a secure basement parking coupled with external covered parking bays on a bitumen surface with aesthetically pleasing hard and soft landscaping. The building and services have been designed to achieve a 4.5 star NABERS rating. The base air-conditioning system is a variable air volume system utilising vertical zoning and high efficiency chillers with gas-fired boilers providing heating for the project. Huge storm water tanks are installed in the carpark to cater for a ‘Once in a 100 years’ storm to drain away water and the hydraulic plans cater to the requirements of the Project size. Fire Services with booster pumps and safety features highlight the project requirement. This includes underground tanks, which boost the water to a full sprinkler system. Electrical services have been designed for a complete UPS system providing backup features in case of power outages, this also includes a generator system installed within the plant room on the roof and diesel fed by a pumping system tank within the basement carpark are for quick filling capabilities. IT services and workstation AV package are state of the art with controllable desk and wall mounted screens requiring a complete co-ordination exercise with cat 5, cat 6 cable and glass fibre. This enables faster communication processes crucial to the services,. State of the art communications and data rooms, which support the IT infrastructure. “I appreciate PS Structures great effort in getting this building to where it is today. PS Structures have been a pleasure to work with” Brian Smyth - Architect,Principal Project Manager – Building Management and Works Department of Finance CLIENT DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY & FINANCE ARCHITECT WOODHEAD INTERNATIONAL
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Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove & Mosman Park Library and Community Learning Centre and Peppermint Grove Shire Offices