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| Lend Lease Lend Lease is among the world’s leading providers of fully integrated property and infrastructure solutions. They are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and employ more than 18,000 people worldwide. In Australia, they are well known for working with communities, clients, and colleagues to create state-ofthe-art infrastructure projects that leave positive legacies. One of the company’s latest projects to fit that bill is The Braggs – a $100 million science and research college campus building at the University of Adelaide. Building the future
Lend Lease | The Braggs houses the University’s worldleading Institute for Photonics and Advances Sensing (IPAS) and other learning and research facilities. It has more than 10,000 square metres of research and teaching facilities with unique specialised laboratories, as well as a 420-seat lecture theatre, two floors of state-of-the-art teaching laboratories and additional student and staff space. Gary Meaney was the Project Manager on that job. He has been in the construction industry since 1997, and has been with the company ever since his building cadetship. He came aboardThe Braggs project in 2010, when the project was past the concept stage but still in the early development stage. LendLease has a long history and a proven track record of successfully delivering highly technical and complex projects. According to Gary, that experience made Lend Lease the right choice for The Braggs – which was “particularly complex and demanding, both from a design and time frame perspective” and required a builder that was up to the OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
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Lend Lease | challenge. As a research facility for IPAS,The Braggs houses equipment that enables optical fibre fabrication, laser and device development, luminesce dating, environmental genomics, photon sensor develop, and synthetic, surface, and bio-chemistry. For Lend Lease, this meant there were “a lot of servicesand detailed coordination” toaccount for. Additionally, The Braggs was constructed in a working educational environment with classes being held in neighbouring buildings and students congregating just metres from the green hoardings that surrounded the massive site. The project team also had to manage those complexities. According to Gary, it was the company’s experience that got them through it.“We’re good at bringing a team together and managing the design process to work through complex problems in order to get the outcomes that are needed.” In addition to housing the IPAS facilities and equipment, The Braggs featurestwofull height atriums and an elaborate faceted glass façade system, which reflects different wave-
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Lend Lease | - Site audits/risk assessments - System selection - Design service - Permanently installed fall arrest systems - Permanently installed anchor points - Walkways and handrails - Ladder access systems - Specialized engineering and fabrication - Personal protective equipment (PFPE) - Commercial edge protection - Confined space entry - Installation - Inspection and recertification - Accredited and certified training RTO - Documentation RIS has a full range of anchor points compliant to AS/NZS5532:2013 Sydney (02) 8781 2100 Melbourne (03) 9330 4911 Canberra (02) 6280 7200 Brisbane (07) 3216 6413 Adelaide (08) 8268 3766 Darwin 0407 533 918 Hobart (03) 6228 2155 Perth (08) 9418 2600 Mackay (07) 4998 5533 RIS is the market leader in the provision of the world’s foremost height safety, fall protection and roof access systems. As a manufacturer, distributor and installer of fully standards compliant harnesses, PPE, Stainless Steel Anchor Points, lifeline and rail systems, ladder access systems and both Aluminium and Fibreglass walkways and handrails, RIS are able to offer you the complete height safety service which also includes site audits, design service, installation, nationally certified training in working at heights, confined space and rope access, inspection and recertification as well as all documentation requirements. RIS are a total Solution Provider. RIS also have a comprehensive engineering workshop and are able to design solutions and construct complex structures to address height safety access issues. We are therefore able to offer our clients a product and service portfolio that will satisfy our industry’s stringent hierarchy of control. Our internal management capabilities and national infrastructure allow us to effectively manage large scale projects across Australia. Employing in excess of 100 people and with branches in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Hobart and Mackay, we pride ourselves on the most practical, cost effective and compliant height safety or fall protection system. Contact your local RIS office for further information regarding our full range of competencies.
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Lend Lease | lengths of light on each level. A diaphragm wall retention system was also constructed for the single level basement, which was partially below the water table which made construction of the foundations and slab very difficult. Lend Lease’s work on the project involved both base building and fit out components for all tenants. According to Gary, that scope of work kept growing throughout the project’s life, and this presented another challenge. “The design meetings workshops continued through to almost the very end of the project,” he explains. “Introductions of additional works and a few late design changes kept us on our toes. For example, the original scope included base building works, IPAS fit-outlocated on the basement, ground floor and level 1. However as the development progressed, Lend Lease were asked to complete a detailed fit out for levels three and four, and then later again were asked to incorporate level 2 fitout as well. These fitouts were introduced late and design and construction of the basebuilding works had
| Lend Lease BUILDING RAPPORT already commenced so we had to work hard with the design team to integrate the works and mitigate any delays on site.” “Due to the fitout sequencing changing, a whole other series of complications for logistics and construction were introduced.Construction commenced from the basement up to the roof, then jumped up to three and four, then back down to two. This affected our ability to close up the façade and complete compartments on each floor which significantly impacted the final commissioning and balancing for the complex pressurisation regime of the building.” “For me personally, this has been the most challenging project I’ve worked on, but also the most rewarding,” he adds. “Adelaide is a small town in the grand scheme of things, and businesses rely heavily on relationships,” Gary says. “Fortunately, we’ve formed longstanding relationships with our consultants and subcontractors, and we’ve worked together on many difficult and challenging projects.”
Lend Lease | “We have built a rapport and help each other through the good times and tough times,” he says.“This was invaluable to have those longstanding relationships that are built on excellence and trust. It allowed us to go that extra mile so we could deliver the best outcomes.” According to Gary, many of the design consultants on The Braggs were locallybased Adelaide companies that Lend Lease has worked with before and will likely work with again. The same goes for the majority of their subcontractors. “They’re one of the most important relationships on any project,” he says. “The construction industry is very fluid – it’s constantly changing and dynamic, so you have to constantly reschedule and re-program. Even if something goes wrong, you still have the same end date, and you still have to deliver the project.” “If you’ve got a good relationship with a subcontractor, they become more flexible and more enthusiastic about working with you,” he explains. “That’s essential when it comes to achieving the right outcomes, like
| Lend Lease INDUSTRY RECOGNISED we did at The Braggs.” Shortly before officially opening, The Braggs was awarded the highest honour at the South Australian Architecture Awards, which went to architects BVN Donovan Hill and HamesSharley. Later, Lend Lease also received their own recognition for it, winning a High Commendation at the 2014 Australian Institute of Building (AIB) Professional Excellence Awards, in the category for Commercial Construction $50 to $100million category.Lend Lease also won the MBA excellence in a Commercial / Industrial Building over $50 million – Landmark Project Award. “We appreciate that recognition very much,” says Gary. “These are prestigious awards, and the company takes them seriously.” The project was also highly acclaimed by the client – who have since awarded Lend Lease more work inin Adelaide – as well as other industry officials. For example, Minister for Innovation Senator Kim Carrsaid that The Braggs was a “fitting home” for industry-leading IPAS researchers. “Here we have outstanding researchers, led by an outstanding scientific leader in Professor Tanya Monro, working across disciplines on projects whose applications are endless,” he said in a statement.“It follows that their headquarters is a state-of-the-art building, the likes of which this country has not seen before.” The building was also praised by University of Adelaide Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Warren Bebbington. With The Braggs, he said the University can “continue the legacy” of two of their greatest alumni – the 1915 Nobel Peace Prize winners Sir William Henry Bragg and his son Sir Lawrence Bragg, for whom the project
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| Lend Lease was named. Sir WilliamHenry Bragg was a pioneer in X-rays and radium, first starting his work at the University of Adelaide in 1886. He dedicated the next 22 years of his life to working there as an Elder Professor of Mathematics and Physics. His son Lawrence graduated the year he left, in 1908, and the two went on to jointly win the Nobel Peace Prize seven years later. To this day, Sir Lawrence Bragg remains the youngest scientist to ever win the Nobel Prize, at only 25 years of age. According to Gary, the Braggs’ eponymous building has received all this praise due to the way it marries function with aesthetic excellence. “It’s quite an architectural building, but it also has a mixture of very complex services and facilities within,” he says. “It’s not just a technical building – it also very appealing, especially at night when all the lights are on. It has two beautiful atrium spaces and an almost-one-of-a-kind façade.” “I don’t think a building like this has been made anywhere else in Australia,” he concludes. “We were proud to be the first to create it.” Talk to Waco Kwikform about scaffold for your next project and you will be dealing with: • a national supplier with the resources of an international company • local people with extensive experience in the construction, mining, oil and gas industries • a company focused on providing quality scaffold solutions safely www.wacokwikform.com.au
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