ANU COLLEGE
OF SCIENCE PRECINCT
Project Overview
This College of Science Precinct project includes six facilities, over 32,000sqm in one precinct, including the Wes Whitten Building (Animal Facility) & associated animal study, Biosciences Building, Teaching Building, Hancock Building Refurbishment, Chemistry Building and Central Plant Facility (CPF).
The building arrangement was designed to form a central hub for the CoSP and provide bold, interrelating architectural significance with the use of 3D precast concrete relief, glass reinforced concrete and recycled timber in the facades. The CPF serves the Chemistry Building Research Facilities in addition to others in the precinct.
Key Features
- Building arrangement designed to create central courtyard and collaboration
- Industry leading thermal recovery coil design - first in Australia
- 3D precast concrete relief, glass reinforced concrete and recycled
timber facades - Sustainable energy design principles - approximately 2.1 million litres of
stored energy
The Hindmarsh Difference
Nine x AIB Awards for Commercial Construction $10-50m & $50m-$100m (2011-2014) and Two x MBA Awards for Commercial Project Exhibiting Technical Difficulty & Project Manager of the Year - Bioscience Building (2012)
The ANU Teaching Building laboratory areas incorporates a large number of fume cupboards, which are exhausted via a single manifolded duct, this exhaust system also includes a thermal recovery coil. This was the first laboratory building in Australia to incorporate this feature and required the project to seek a special exemption from the building certifier as it was completed ahead of the Australian Standards for Laboratory design.
