Holt Street

Brisbane Qld : Warehouse : 2017

Building Designer: Tarun Jangra
Structural Engineer: Paterdis

A warehouse with approximately 11000 square meters under roof. The design includes a 100 meter long underground fire water storage tank, fire escape tunnels, underground pump room and suspended concrete storage floor above the warehouse office space.

The Challenge

The client brief was to produce a structural system with no internal bracing and economically large column free space. An accelerated construction programme also formed part of the brief.

The outcome

The lateral structural system is a combination of braced and portalised frames; the central ‘spine’ roof trusses are rigidly connected to columns to produce lateral stability. The building ‘spines’, effectively providing a spring support to the large span roof bracing system spanning between external tilt-up wall panels - this eliminated the need for internal bracing. The structure is supported on driven piles with the internal slabs on ground and tank constructed economically floating and isolated from the main structure. Paterdis collaborated with developer and building designer to deliver the project in stages to allow accelerated construction.

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