Printing press building for Hobart Mercury

The new AUD $9 million high-speed facillity, located in the Hobart Technopark, was designed by GHD, which provided the architectural detailing, structural and geotechnical engineering, all building services engineering, planning, environmental and traffic assessments. The EGO Group and Cardno Low and Hooke also contributed to the design.

Most notably, the new equipment allows the Hobart Mercury to output its own colour printing for the first time, avoiding the current need to fly in colour work overnight from Melbourne.

GHD’s Manager Built Environment, Alex Brownlie explains, “The complexities involved in the design required careful and ongoing liaison with the owner, News Limited, and the equipment suppliers to ensure that the completed plant will work precisely as intended by the client.

There was also a range of design challenges including the need to manage the 500 kW of heat generated by the equipment, while controlling the humidity to make sure that the paper does not warp or tear.”

The new building to house the plant is an impressive 71 metres by 32 metres, with a floor area of 2,300 square metres. There will also be an administration wing.  “The entire design and preparation has unfolded smoothly, including a seamless planning approval process, with no objections throughout the assessment period,” says Mr Brownlie.

The design process and liaison with the client and other design teams was boosted by the use of the Revit Building Information Modelling system.

This enabled the creation of a three dimensional model of the building, which helped to provide a high level of coordination between the various teams to deliver a single, integrated design.

Construction commenced in April 2008 and was completed in May 2009.

For more information, visit: www.themercury.com.au

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Imagine being able to do a virtual walk through a project, adjust specifications and costings before even breaking ground. Collaborate with us at your early concept stages and utilise technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) which allows you to do just that.

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In the industrial world, it is not enough to design facilities that are visually pleasing. First, industrial facilities must be functional. That is why GHD integrates architecture, process, and building design and engineering. This teaming assists in coordinating the crucial interfaces between the process equipment, the building layout, the structure and the building services to accommodate plant installations, building fabric and operational efficiencies.

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We have a strong reputation, a record of accomplishment in providing world-leading 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.

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