The 12,200m2 Harrisdale shopping centre is the first stage of a planned town centre in the new Stockland Newhaven residential community in Perth’s south east.
WGE designed the sustainability, electrical, hydraulic and fire engineering services for the project, which achieved a 4 Star Green Star Design and As Built Retail V1 Rating. Design features included:
- Building management system monitors energy, water and gas usage
- Energy modelling for a number of chiller energy efficiency options
- LED lighting design for energy efficiency
- Detailed investigation into blackwater treatment plants and solar panels
- Value engineering to meet the requirements of the client brief
- Performance-based smoke hazard management system to allow for an open mall design without smoke barriers
Project challenges:
- Facilitating the architectural goals while maintaining the level of fire and life safety and fire brigade requirements
- Supply authority negotiations with Western Power and NBN
- Design to allow future expansion of the centre
- Improving the flexibility of the centre to allow for future changing tenancies
- Assisting the client with coordination of individual tenant requirements to ensure efficient allocation/placement of tenancies. This approach delivered cost savings through reducing the alterations and changes to newly installed systems required to suit different tenant requirements.
Multi-discipline approach
Coordination across WGE’s multi-discipline team ensured proactive avoidance of services clashes, with building services designed once, rather than going through multiple revisions. The multi discipline approach allowed:
- A coordinated WGE model available to other engineering consultants on the project – offering a streamlined approach and time savings
- Efficient design was achieved through an agreed services coordination approach – delivering a more cost effective and streamlined infrastructure design
- A consistent approach to the project’s design life – reducing maintenance expenditure and streamlining capital upgrades over the life of the building
