THE STEEL ARCHITECTURAL PANEL PROJECT SHOWCASE

CONTENTS 1 The Botanic Gardens – Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide 2 Liberty Service Station Zupps Distribution and Training Centre 3 The M5 Tollway 4 CSIRO – Division of Minerals 5 Woolworths – The Award Winning State Office Heidelberg Australia, Richmond 6 Cathay Pacific’s New Headquarters 8 International Fibre Centre 9 The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre 10 Sunshine Coast University – Recreation Building 11 Carm Centre 12 Flight Control 13 Manufacturer Information Architectural panels made from COLORBOND® steel are giving designers more flexibility, and delivering clients value and performance....

1 A simple yet elegant arch of steel and glass has helped put paid to Adelaide’s reputation as the staid and conservative ‘city of churches’. And in so doing, the Botanic Gardens Bicentennial Conservatory for Tropical Plants – completed in 1989 as a major Bicentennial project – has provided one of the earliest examples of EPS cored steel sandwich panels making the successful leap from utilitarian refrigeration panel to beautiful architectural form. Architect Guy Maron, of Raffen Maron, says it was hard to go past steel panels on the material selection criteria. “We wanted something that was quick...

2 Architectural panels made from Surfmist® COLORBOND® steel have provided a speedy, efficient and cost-effective solution as fascia panelling on the Liberty Service Station, at Browns Plain, in Brisbane. Retracom insulated panels have been used as fascia on the canopy over the bowser area. According to Retracom’s Martin Porter, the main reasons the panels were chosen were cost, ease of installation, and the fact that they were a finished product when they went up. “Other than signwriting, there’s nothing more you have to do to the panels once they’re fixed in a commercial application such as...

3 When you’re craning a three by eight metre fully prefabricated building module off the back of a low loader, any weight saving achieved is… well, worth its weight in gold. That’s why the design and engineering team for the M5 toll plaza, in Sydney’s west, elected to use steel architectural panels on crucial parts of the structure. The distinctive tollway complex incorporates an administration building, control tower and toll booth canopy. Steel architectural panels supplied by Minesco Pty Ltd have been used on both end walls of the long, low slung administration building, and around the curved...

4 The CSIRO Division of Minerals facility in Clayton, Victoria, represents the new face of science practice and administration in Australia. Completed in 1997, it’s a low maintenance, low energy facility that delivers functionality with flair. And to achieve that balance, Melbourne architects Woods Bagot turned yet again to HHR Panels using COLORBOND® steel. Project architect Mark Kelly had previously used HH Roberston’s Formawall® sandwich panel system on Cathay Pacific’s new data operations centre in Sydney. With that experience in hand, he opted for the same product with the same finish –...

5 The ability of COLORBOND® steel architectural panels to give depth and flair to a corporate ‘flagship’ has been well proven on Woolworths’ new state headquarters, in South Australia. BONDOR EQUITILT® Architectural Walling panels made from COLORBOND® steel have been used as exterior cladding on the two-storey state office building. Mark Newton, of Sydney-based MNIA Architects, said aesthetic considerations aside, the logic behind the choice was straightforward. “They were cost-effective, low maintenance, The Australian headquarters of international print press giant, Heidelberg, is proof that...

6 Clean, futuristic and functional are words that best describe a major regional data operations centre in Sydney’s north west. The centre has 14,500 square metres of plant, support staff area and sophisticated computer and communications facilities spread over three levels. The design of the project has been largely dictated by the twin drivers of security and functionality. And to that end, it has very few windows (principally located looking onto a secure courtyard). Faced with such a large, windowless external facade, the challenge for the Woods Bagot design team of Robert Cahill and Mark...

7 Client: Cathay Pacific. Architect: Woods Bagot. Structural Engineer: Connell Wagner. Panel Manufacturer: HH Robertson. Product: Formawall®. Skin: COLORBOND® Metallic steel. Completed: 1996.

8 Insulated steel architectural panels have helped transform the International Fibre Centre (IFC) into a vision of the future, rather than a tribute to the past. The IFC’s Geelong campus is the modern ‘face’ of the Australian wool and fibre industries as they shape up to the challenges of the new millennium. As such, the building’s stakeholders most definitely didn’t want it to look like a big Australian wool shed. Located on Deakin University’s Waurn Pools campus, in Victoria, the IFC is used primarily for training, education and product development for the Australian wool and textile industries....

9 The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre and the National Tennis Centre have a lot in common. Both are acknowledged as world-class sporting facilities, with each sharing a common architectural pedigree via the sure hand of Peddle Thorp, and both bear the unmistakable imprint of Minesco Pty Ltd steel architectural panels. Having used panels to great practical and aesthetic effect on the Tennis Centre, the Peddle Thorp design team had no hesitation in specifying Minesco Styrospan panels for the external wall cladding on the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, at Albert Park. Design director Peter...

10 The ‘all-in-one’ nature of steel architectural panels has helped transform the design vision for a university recreation centre into reality in just 12 weeks. The Sunshine Coast University Recreation Building – designed by award-winning Queensland architects, Clare Design – utilises Ritek steel sandwich panels by Building Solutions to deliver a ‘roof – insulation – ceiling’ solution in one go. The Clares chose corrugated ZINCALUME® steel for the underside (ceiling), and a mix of Paperbark® COLORBOND® steel and ZINCALUME® steel for the external face (roof). The Ritek Custom Panel is formed...