Regional sites can benefit from a DFMA approach to deliver complex building typologies with certainty and quality.
CSIRO required a new Clean Lab for their research centre on a leased site at Narrabri. Some of the specific complexities of the project included:
laboratory conditions required building to be air tight
laboratory conditions required floor to have extremely low vibration tolerance
wall panels up to 6m high required a custom solution for transport and delivery
the building needed to be easily removed from leased site at the end of lease
Finished building below
Working as sub contractors to FKG Group, Austruss' scope of work included:
prefabricated floor system
prefabricated light gauge steel wall frames
prefabricated facade panels
prefabricated roof panels
These elements were all prefabricated in the Austruss facility and transported to site for installation with specialised systems designed to facilitate transport of the prefabricated kit of parts.
Key benefits offered by Austruss were:
limited preliminary site costs, truck movements, disruption, waste and numbers of trades on site due to most of the prefabrication work happening offsite
accelerated project timeline due to parrallel procurement
prefabrication allowed certainty and control of build quality
See below for a timeline of installation of the prefabricated kit of parts on site.
Loaded up at the Austruss facility ready for the 630km trip to site
Day 1 - mid morning
Day 2 - mid morning
Day 3 - first facade panels installed
Facade panels - 1 installed every 10 minutes
Day 3 - 3pm
Day 4
Day 4 - evening roof install
Day 5 - mid morning
Day 6
Completed building
Click on the image below to link to more photos of the finished laboratory on FKG's website