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Melbourne City have unveiled the spectacular new $15 million football training facility, home to the City Football Group.

Wood & Grieve’s mechanical, electrical and hydraulics teams worked closely with ME Engineers’ New York office to assist with project documentation, design review and liaison with authorities.

The new facilities are world-class and boast a replication of the famous Manchester change room. Players and coaches will be training for peak performance at the A-League level facility, which is a ‘one stop shop’ incorporating coaches’ and meeting rooms plus rehab area and full gym with stretching, weights and cardio sections.

More information on the impressive facilities can be viewed here.

WGE collaborates on cutting-edge renewable energy generation & pool heating system

The Fremantle Aquatic Centre (WA) heating project is the first in Australia to utilise cutting-edge renewable technology and combine a cogeneration unit with a ground source heat pump to warm the pool. Wood & Grieve officially obtained Western Power’s approval to energise on 2 February 2015.

The new pool heating system has been assessed as providing optimal payback and carbon offset to the City of Fremantle. Pool heating efficiency and reduced operational costs are achieved through the combination of the following technologies:

• 75 kW “MiracleGen” Cummins engine cogeneration system
• Ground source heat pump with a shallow geothermal bore system

Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) were initially engaged by Energy Made Clean (EMC) to assist with the preliminary design and electrical infrastructure upgrade to accommodate the cogeneration plant.

Following the appointment of Evo Industries Australia by the City of Fremantle for the project’s design refinement and construction, WGE were further engaged for their specialist knowledge in parallel power generation to assist Evo Industries with the protection design and authority approvals.

The project won the 2014 SPLASH (Swimming Pool & Spa Association Australia) award for most environmentally friendly project.

The Perth property industry is experiencing a time of significant change with major projects underway. Industry leaders share their thoughts on what’s happening in our city in 2015 and the outlook for the future.

Featuring:

• Brett Davis, Director & Perth Office Manager, Wood & Grieve Engineers
• David Karotkin, National President, Australian Institute of Architects (Managing Director, Sandover Pinder Architects)
• Neill Stevens, Managing Director, NS Projects
• Joe Lenzo, Executive Director, Property Council of Australia (WA Division)

The Beleura Private Hospital Redevelopment project, located south of Melbourne, will provide a new 32 bed rehabilitation ward, consulting suites and a new physiotherapy gym in the expansive day services area as well as a new hydrotherapy pool extension.

Wood & Grieve Engineers provided full multi-disciplinary engineering services on the project which also necessitated site infrastructure and extension and modifications to the at-grade carpark.

The hydrotherapy pool required careful engineering design to achieve the required amenity and comfort with a JV3 designed skylight and carefully detailed steel truss assemblies designed to simply bolt together & become a self-stable elevated cubic form on site.

Modular design features were incorporated by both the structural and building services engineering teams, including:

• Assimilation of gantry beams with modular chassis to form a composite system that reduced overall structural depth, thus increasing the undercroft carpark ceiling heights & amenity
• Modular Performance Specifications that leveraged off WGE’s modular experience and lead to:
  • Mechanical systems shared across adjacent modules
  • Integrated services systems

Modular solutions are increasingly being utilised by Wood & Grieve when appropriate as a way to improve project efficiency, quality control and reduce the requirement for costly on-site labour.

Western Australia’s property industry is putting the focus directly on opportunities to increase project efficiency and cost reduction through BIM software. Case studies and user advantages were showcased at the inaugural BIMWest event, held on 11 February at the new 6 star Green Star Greenskills building at the Central Institute of Technology, WA.

BIMWest is the brainchild of the committee that bought us the Western Australian Revit Users Group (WARUG).

Keynote speaker Richard Mann, Executive Director of Strategic Projects & Asset Sales, Department of Treasury, demonstrated that the Western Australian BIM movement is ahead of its field globally and gave users confidence that BIM is being taken seriously in our industry. The Perth Children’s Hospital project provided a live case study for discussion of BIM implementation and the benefits for future major projects.

Professor Peter E.D. Love from Curtin University and Craig Muir from GHD provided the audience with insights into the incorporation of invisible systems into working BIM models, whether it be the relationship between Power/Comms/IT/Security or in-ground infrastructure into 3D designs.

The inside scoop from the recent ‘Revit Gunslinger’ event was provided by Michael Ruehr from Hassell Architects, following his involvement in this invitation-only Autodesk event.

After discussion of the possibilities of new BIM features, which one most interested Wood & Grieve’s BIM focus group? The low cost solutions to hand held scanning devices for the instantaneous creation of a 3D point cloud, sent to the cloud, for use in modeling.

From the perspective of the consulting engineer, Wood & Grieve have been deeply involved in the BIM user community and have been an early adopter of the technology.

Details on unlocking the value of BIM in the property industry can be found here.

Residents can now call The Quay Haymarket home, as practical completion is achieved on the 4 Star Green Star Design Certified residential haven in the heart of Sydney’s Chinatown.

The development, designed by architects WMK and constructed by Parkview Constructions, includes high levels of environmental performance consistent with Australian best-practice standards for multi-unit residential design. The project has been designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and potable water demand via the inclusion of numerous best practice sustainability initiatives.

Wood & Grieve’s sustainability team in Sydney is proud to have led a successful collaboration in delivering the Round 1 submission which resulted in The Quay Haymarket’s Green Star Design certification.

Additional project engineering services from Wood & Grieve included mechanical, electrical and vertical transportation engineering.

You know you’ve nailed engineering consulting when…

…your firm gets nominated as a finalist in three categories in the 2015 Beaton Client Choice awards.

Wood & Grieve is ready to break out the vintage Dom Perignon after receiving the news that we’re finalists in the following highly contested categories:

• Best Consulting Engineering Firm (revenue between $50M-$200M)
• Best WA Firm (we’re proud to be the only engineers in this category)
• Most Client Focussed Consulting Engineer (a new individual award, with Mr Grant Holman from our Melbourne office honoured as a finalist)

Big congratulations must go to Grant Holman for the Most Client Focussed Consulting Engineer nomination. It couldn’t be awarded to a nicer guy – Grant doesn’t classify people he works with as ‘clients’ or ‘colleagues’, instead he calls them friends and mates.

We live and breathe engineering projects along with our clients, and couldn’t be prouder of these amazing client choice nominations.

As a firm we couldn’t have achieved this level of recognition without the hard work and input of the entire Wood & Grieve team. A big thank you to everyone for your ongoing dedication and enthusiasm. As we all believe, to us it’s more than just work.