The Rugby Australia Building is a state-of-the-art sport and education hub that is the new headquarters for Rugby Australia. It hosts high-performance operations and also houses the new sport facilities for University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The Rugby Australia component includes a high-performance training facility primarily for the Australian men’s and women’s Sevens teams and the Wallabies. The facility includes wet recovery rooms (endless river, hot and cold spas), large gymnasium, café, lounge and dining spaces, together with an internal playing field. Rugby Australia administration, coaching staff, board and meeting rooms are also in this section of the building. The UTS component consists of teaching spaces, laboratories and training rooms for the Sports Science facility. The basement includes parking, plant areas and specialist storage facilities. The building is founded on piles with a reinforced concrete post-tensioned structure. Steel framing forms the top level of the building, with a curtain wall detailed façade. Fitting out both sections of the building was part of the construction contract. The internal works included sports sprung flooring, recovery pools, endless river pool, sports field with synthetic grass on a sports underlay and change facilities, together with quality office space including boardrooms etc. The bespoke façade sun shading is unique to the project, utilising deep sections of anodised aluminium sections which transition from horizontal to vertical and include intersecting lattice, which was unitised to the curtain wall panels prior to installation. The detailed works were carried out to a high standard of finish and create a quality environment for the occupants. Overall, the construction quality was of a high standard. Management of the various stakeholders and working within a busy precinct were all dealt with in order to achieve a successful outcome.
Category
Construction (Commercial) » Sporting Facilities
Price
$15,000,001 & OVER
Year
2018
Company
A W Edwards Pty Limited
Project
Rugby Australia Building
Suburb
Moore Park
Prize
Winner