It essentially dispenses with the requirement to excavate a below-ground pit prior to commencement, enabling use of the site from day one. It greatly reduces the risks associated with soil movement and eliminates the need for sheet piling.Top Down construction vastly improves the speed of project delivery and offers dramatic capital cost improvement whilst providing excellence of finish to any build, enhancing and reducing resource usage, improving cost and reducing pollution. It also enables construction of substructures in crowded and sensitive areas where tie-back installation is not possible, or soil vibration and disturbance must be minimised.
Top Down construction forms one of the integrated approach to advanced design and construction of substructures from the firm Advanced Substructures – launched in 2018 to take these advantages to the Australian construction industry.
This beautiful 7 floor 42 apartment building in the heart of the prestigious East Perth district also features 2 levels of basement parking completed simultaneously using top-down construction, achieving significant savings and time efficiencies for the developers
In an extremely complex and challenging build, the Award winning results achieved at Church House showcase the possibilities of the very best Top Down construction techniques in a landmark project for the industry.
This modern office development located in Applecross utilised top-down construction to meet the financial limits of the client and make the project viable to construct.
The State Theatre Centre of WA offers an iconic range of flexible spaces from an open air courtyard to the famous Health Ledger Theatre. This building faced a range of dynamic challenges from the placement, height restrictions, access and the theatre extending over 8 metres below the water table. The project received the 2011 Australia Engineers National Award for Excellence for its suite of solutions to these challenges.
This award-winning shopping centre reduced the tender cost from $112M to $79.7M and accelerated build time by 5 months through the use of top-down construction.
Multi level luxury apartment complex in Scarborough
This prestigious 44 storey skyscraper borders on the Al Majaz lagoon in Sharjah comprises of 4 basement levels completed using top-down construction and Airey Taylor's foundational design.
St Quentin’s Apartments were architecturally conceived by CMP Architects to provide a striking gateway building to the Town Centre precinct of Claremont, and utilised revolutionary top-down construction and permanent form concrete walls to both speed completion of the project and integrate construction into the prestigious neighbourhood with minimum disruption.
Creation of this award winning hotel in Perth CBD consisted of high quality repurposing of an existing office building to suit its new function as high class accommodation, including pioneering substructural works
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