Lendlease demonstrate a commitment to implementing and achieving high standards of health and safety management at One Sydney Harbour, a skyscraper complex in Sydney. Standing at 247m (72 floors), senior management had to select the best control for this High Risk Construction Work.
The Lendlease team reviewed different façade installation systems and methodologies available to them on other existing buildings and evaluated each option against the key metrics of safety, cost & programme.
Ultimately, the system that was selected for the project was to install the façade from behind independent façade screens for both the Core Elevation as well as the Typical slab elevations.
One of the main drivers for selecting the independent façade screen systems over traditional methods was the elimination of return panels.
In traditional façade installation methodologies, particularly mast-climber and no-screen methodologies, the number of return panels is far greater, which inherently carries more risk as with each return panel there is a risk of falling persons, materials and future risk of fixings failing. The independent façade screen system eliminates return panels entirely on the elevations which the screens encapsulate.