{"id":6030,"date":"2025-12-18T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/project\/qv1-building-perth\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:25:21","slug":"qv1-building-perth","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/project\/qv1-building-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"QV1 Building, Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perth CBD, Western Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROJECT VALUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valued at $400 million in 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARTNERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Architect: Seidler &amp; Associates<\/p>\n<p>Builder: R Williams<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATE OF COMPLETION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1993 (30 months)<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 WA Architecture Awards<br \/>\n<\/strong>Richard Roach Jewell Award for Enduring Architecture<strong><br \/>\n1993 Association of Consulting Engineers Australia (National) Awards<\/strong><br \/>\nHigh Commendation (Structural Engineering Category)<br \/>\n<strong>1992 Australian Institute of Architects (National) Awards<\/strong><br \/>\nBest design for a commercial building (over $200 million)<br \/>\n<strong>1992 Master Builders Association of Australia (National) Awards<br \/>\n<\/strong>Best workmanship for a building (over $200 million)<br \/>\n<strong>1992 Australian Institute of Architects<br \/>\n<\/strong>Architecture Design Award (Commercial buildings over $200 million)<br \/>\n<strong>1992 Australian Institute of Architects<br \/>\n<\/strong>Civic Design Award for Commercial Buildings<\/p>\n<p>This iconic modernist skyscraper consists of 42 levels of reinforced concrete framed offices. One of Perth&#8217;s largest office buildings, the adoption of a highly economical system of five pile-assisted concrete rafts over problematic soils consisting of inter-bedded sands and clays won national acclaim for Airey Taylor Consulting for\u00a0its innovative solution to foundational challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The structural design, which featured post tensioned radial beams spanning 14m and cast-in-situ floor slab offered ease and extremely rapid speed of overall construction, and allowed 23 floors to be completed in the first nine months of 1990.<\/p>\n<p>This building has been used as a case study by University Engineering students for excellence in design of multi-level structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 42 storey skyscraper forms an iconic part of the Perth skyline, overcoming multiple engineering challenges to win national awards and has been used as a case study for University Students for excellence in design of multi-level structures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6031,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"dt_portfolio_category":[106,114,139,115,116,101],"featured":[87],"class_list":["post-6030","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dt_portfolio_category-commercial","dt_portfolio_category-multi-storey","dt_portfolio_category-multi-storey-commercial","dt_portfolio_category-multi-storey-offices","dt_portfolio_category-offices","dt_portfolio_category-post-tensioned-concrete","featured-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/6030","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\/6030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dt_portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio_category?post=6030"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atconsulting.com.au\/_staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=6030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}