WINNER: SHOSPEC PTY LTD NTT VOLKSWAGEN & AUDI EAST LONDON
With Audi having a new role out of corporate spec worldwide, this project was for a new ± 2000m² Audi showroom in East London. Shospec were responsible for the curved interior walls, bulkheads, skimmed ceilings and metal pan ceilings, a project which they found immensely technical and challenging.
With 3 curved walls at a 60⁰ incline, this pushed their design and fitting teams to new heights. These are walls of approximately 20Lm in length and 4.5 to 6,5mm in height with light pockets and large openings in places.
Installing and designing a 400mm deep self-supported wall substructure had its structural and design challenges as most of the walls are self-supporting. Suspended ceilings and bulkheads were mostly curved at wall junctions with a shadow line perimeter cornice. Most suspended ceilings have a non-standard metal mesh tiles and grey celling grid which was sourced from Taiwan with an 8 week lead time.
HIGHLY COMMENDED/TILE & CARPET HEATING CC TA SPEEDHEAT MIDLANDS FLOOR HEATING ROBY ROY RETIREMENT VILLAGE
The brief was to provide floor heating for individual residents and communal areas of Rob Roy Lifestyle Retirement Village.
Phase 1 was in the renovated main building of the existing Rob Roy Hotel and the new Mary Campbell Building. Work involved the heating of passage ways, snooker rooms, restaurants, individual rooms with bathrooms as well as the frail care centre and nurses stations.
Phase 2 was for free standing cottages outside the main building for the more independent residents. Phase 3 was heating 26 individual retirement units in another new wing. Each unit composed of a lounge, dining room, kitchen, bedroom and en suite bathroom. Each area is controlled independently.
