Completion year 2015
Key People
Civil Project Engineer
Fire Section Manager, Principal
Structural Project Engineer, Principal
These two new residential developments form part of the Perry Lakes stadium redevelopment. Empire West comprises a four-storey building of 96 apartments while Empire East is a three storey building with 27 apartments, both with their own single-storey undercroft carpark. The development incorporates the original 1962 scoreboard building as a focal point housing a lounge area, gym and billiards room.
WGE were appointed as structural, civil and fire engineers for this project. Our work included the new-build structures and adaptive re-use and remediation of the existing scoreboard building.
Masonry construction was adopted throughout with the exception of ground-level walls which were constructed as AFS wall acting as deep-beam transfer elements. This eliminated the need for transfer beams and allowed greater carpark headroom to facilitate services reticulation.