Melbourne Mausoleum

GHD provided the structural and civil designs for the Luciano Rossetti mausoleum at Melbourne’s Springvale Botanical Cemetery. GHD worked closely with the principal designer, Harmer Architecture, to deliver this landmark structure.

GHD’s design featured shaped precast concrete panels for the external vertical structure; cast in-situ concrete crypt cores designed to extend the service past 100 years; an efficient steel framed roof; unusual angular plan form; rainwater harvesting and special features such as the steel framed glass wall, reflection ponds and skylit galleries. GHD also designed all crypt cores, and gallery slabs have been designed as suspended structures for a long and trouble-free service life for the building complex.  

The mausoleum won the best overall concrete project award at the 2007 Cement and Aggregates Australia public domain awards.

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GHD has a strong reputation and record of accomplishment in providing specialised technical support and advice for all areas of structural design and assessment. Demand for GHD’s services continues to grow as the company completes and advises on a number of significant structural projects for some of the world's tallest buildings, inlcuding Al-Bidaa Tower, Dubai Tower and the Doha Convention Center and Tower in the United Arab Emirates. We have also worked on Federation Tower in Moscow, the award-winning Melbourne Mausoleum, sports complexes in China, energy projects in Chile and Australia, desalination plants in the USA, and several mining and industry projects in Australia, New Zealand and China.

The structures team promotes an open and positive involvement in the initial design process and prepares designs that are functional, economical and safe. Most importantly the team strives to meet client requirements. GHD can deliver innovative, sustainable design solutions anywhere in the world using building information modelling and management software to achieve a macro design perspective. GHD bases its approach on actively engaging with its clients during project development to deliver successful projects.

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