Industrial Projects

Warehouses & factories – Many new facilities, and many alterations and extensions, in and around Sydney

Our Role:

  • Structural & civil design and inspections – buildings, carparks, siteworks and roadworks

  • Checking and certifying existing structures

Challenges:

  • Several large span warehouses and awnings, requiring detailed analysis

  • Strict client requirements for floor slab tolerances

Boral Concrete Plants – Several new, and many altered and extended facilities – since 1995

Our Role:

  • Structural & civil design and inspections

  • Structural audits

  • Design of stormwater treatment systems

  • Coordinating Authority approvals and subconsultants

Challenges:

  • Stringent requirements for stormwater treatment

  • Investigating and certifying some older structures

Miscellaneous industrial structures – Containers, transport stillages, lifting equipment, silos, etc

Our Role:

  • Structural design and inspections

  • Establishing Safe Working Loads

Challenges:

  • Understanding operational requirements

  • Designing for a range of different load conditions – static, dynamic, etc, while maintaining a light, compact and economical structure

Asphalt Plants, for Boral and others – One complete new plant, and many alterations and extensions

Our Role:

  • Structural & civil design and inspections

  • Design of stormwater treatment systems

  • Design of bunding to AS1940

Challenges:

  • Checking a range of existing and new structures, some imported from the US - and designing alterations and footings to suit

Contaminated soil processing facility- Dandenong South, Victoria - Suez Ventia joint venture. –

  • Structural & civil design and inspections

  • Design of stormwater collection and treatment systems

Challenges:

  • Designing foundations to sit on a capped containment layer - with very limited bearing pressures