Hansen Yuncken take over on Adelaide Law Courts site
Baulderstone Hornibrook has completed the Early Works Package on the new Commonwealth Law Courts complex in Adelaide and Hansen Yuncken, the successful tenderer for the Main Works Contract, has moved on site.
The modern 11 storey building, located in the city’s Victoria Square legal precinct on the site of the old SA Police Headquarters building, will house the High Court, the Federal Court, the Family Court and the Federal Magistrates Service.
Incorporating a number of unique features, the building is set to be an imposing landmark on the Adelaide skyline. The western elevation of the building features the ‘Opal’, and together with the ‘random’ panelised curtain wall façade and the 5.7m floor to floor heights, will form part of the project’s more challenging aspects.
The lower 5 levels of the building will house 22 courts for the High Court, Federal Court, Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court, together with administrative facilities, while the upper levels will house the associated Judges Chamber facilities.
The main works include completing the perimeter basement while forming the over run pits to the five main service cores feeding the building. Four of the five cores are being formed using a jumpform system of shuttering.
Works are progressing well within the basement, with all involved focusing on forming the main cores fast to stay ahead of the following upper floor decking. The suspended ground floor slab is a traditional insitu concrete slab. The remaining upper floor slabs are formed from post-tensioned reinforced concrete band beams, with precast concrete hollow core slabs and a structural concrete topping. The only variation from this is plantroom slabs, which are also traditionally formed. Incorporated into this structure are a variety of large polished precast concrete columns and wall panels. The atrium has an exposed column rising unrestrained to the underside of the sixth floor approximately 30 meters high. The envelope is a mixture of precast concrete panels, panellised curtain walling with solar shading and copper cladding.
Services are extremely complex, with cabling designed to incorporate the latest courtroom technology.
Largely funded by the federal government, the project is expected to create approximately 500 jobs in the building and related service industries during the construction phase. Completion is expected in August 2004.
11-Feb-2003