{"id":5952,"date":"2025-12-18T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/project\/central-tafe-northbridge\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:25:12","slug":"central-tafe-northbridge","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/project\/central-tafe-northbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Central TAFE, Northbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northbridge, Western Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROJECT VALUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$59.5 million<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARTNERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Builder: Cooper &amp; Oxley Builders<\/p>\n<p>Architect: Lyons Architects and T &amp; Z Architects<\/p>\n<p>Partner Engineers: Meinhardt Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Airey Taylor Consulting provided the professional services required for disciplines of geotechnical, civil, structural and fa\u00e7ade engineering for Stage 2 of the Central TAFE building in Northbridge. The rear section of the new building lies over the Graham Farmer Freeway Tunnel and the structural and civil design took into account restrictions imposed by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority of WA and\u00a0East Perth Redevelopment Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The four level building was designed to include the Student Services Facility, Library and Education and Community Services.\u00a0 The entrance theme, being the \u201cSocial Heart\u201d gives easy access to all areas of the building\u2019s classrooms and lecture theatres.<\/p>\n<p>Savings in the vicinity of $800,000 were achieved on concept design due to Airey Taylor\u2019s intimate knowledge of Western Australian specific construction cost implications to design. Responsive, leading edge design outcomes were used to best effect to reduce costs to the client, while avant-garde architectural considerations such as sunlight surface reflection for optimum illumination without using electric lighting were incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>The large footprint suspended floor slabs have been designed using post-tensioned concrete to achieve a cost effective solution for the project.\u00a0 Another advantage of the adoption of a post-tensioned concrete floor slab is that it accommodates large library loading restricting slab deflections to minimum levels and providing large open spaces for the area occupied beneath the suspended slab.<\/p>\n<p>Generally pad footings were used to support the structure, however, piled foundations were included near the tunnel to eliminate pressure on the tunnel walls.\u00a0 Large pad footings were used over the tunnel roof to reduce bearing pressure on the tunnel roof.\u00a0 Pressed metal steel sections were used for steelwork supporting the fa\u00e7ade and conventional rolled steel rafters and pressed metal purlins were used for the roof structure.\u00a0 Permanent Form Concrete Walling systems were used to expedite the construction of the walls and levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airey Taylor Consulting are proud to have been associated with the outstanding avant-garde redevelopment that has seen the Central TAFE transformed into a significant public education facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5953,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"dt_portfolio_category":[105,131,89,100,101,134],"featured":[87],"class_list":["post-5952","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dt_portfolio_category-civic","dt_portfolio_category-colleges","dt_portfolio_category-educational","dt_portfolio_category-permanent-form-concrete-walling-system","dt_portfolio_category-post-tensioned-concrete","dt_portfolio_category-value-engineering","featured-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/5952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/5952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dt_portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio_category?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}