Searle x Waldron Architecture

✨ BUILDING ENGINEERING CELEBRATES THE COMPLETION OF THE NORTHERN MEMORIAL PARK DEPOT, A LANDMARK PROJECT FOR GMCT ✨ 🌿🏗️Building Engineering is excited to celebrate the completion of the Northern Memorial Park Depot (NMP) for The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT). This landmark mass-timber, two-storey facility provides a cutting-edge base for day-to-day operations at NMP. 🌍✨. Designed by Searle x Waldron Architecture, this project pushes the boundaries of sustainability and innovation. The depot boasts over 300 timber members stick-built on-site, alongside 150,000 locally sourced recycled bricks 🧱. With an expansive solar panel array 🌞 and a rainwater harvesting system 💧, this project takes sustainability to new heights, minimising environmental impact while maximising operational efficiency. 🌱 Mass timber plays a key role in the building’s design, reflecting GMCT’s aim to reduce its environmental footprint. This depot isn’t just functional—it's a blueprint for sustainable construction. 🗣️James Reid, GMCT’s Chief Built Environment Officer, emphasises the importance of partnership in this achievement: “The key to this project's success lies in the close collaboration and communication between our project partners Building Engineering and Searle x Waldron Architecture. This is the most complex and largest project we’ve ever undertaken.” 🙌Thank you to our dedicated team and partners for their hard work and collaboration. We’re incredibly proud of this project, which will serve the community for generations to come. 🎥 Watch the video to experience the journey and see how this flagship facility is shaping the future of Northern Memorial Park. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gTe34aTD Theca Timber | Stilcon Steel | Ergodomus Timber Engineering Tom Basel | Chris Doufas | David Hunter | David Waters | Andrew Eljari | Liam Fitzpatrick | Greg Alexander #buildingengineering #construction #building #northernmemorialpark #sustainableconstruction #timberbuilding #masstimber #gmct #constructioninnovation #greenbuilding #melbourne #projectcompletion #ecofriendly #futureforward #glenroy

Very rewarding that Macarthur Street Primary School Amenities Pavilion received an Award for Small Project Architecture at the recent 2024 Victorian Architecture Awards. So proud of our team for all their efforts to make this project do so much more than the brief. And thanks to the jury for their lovely words and recognition of this. The jury citation: "The Macarthur Street Amenities Pavilion is a masterful example of architects exceeding a simple brief to deliver more with less. In this project, the deceptively simple brief of a school bathroom refurbishment takes a back seat to the extra amenity provided: a stage; an outdoor learning space; and a reinvented accessible entry to the primary school – all under a simple but joyous canopy. The bathroom refurbishment itself is well considered and vibrant, including a new DDA-compliant accessible bathroom lacking from the original layout. Seeing potential in the existing structure, a low-brick amenity block typical of schools across the state, the architects found spatial efficiencies within the bathroom layouts to provide additional storage and DDA-compliant bathroom while simultaneously reducing the internal footprint. This allowed for the project’s main offering, a vibrant verandah canopy connecting the much-loved existing mural by local artist Travis Price to the street. The exuberance of this project is contagious, showing the value of architecture in the simple structures of everyday life." Simone Koch RAIA, Jury Chair Natalie Miles RAIA, Juror Aaron Lougoon RAIA, Juror Jamie Danino RAIA, Graduate Juror Practice: Searle x Waldron Architecture Photographer: Emma Cross Builder: BowdenCorp Traditional Owners: Wadawurrung Country

Roofing and final installation in full swing at our Glulam & CLT structure in Melbourne. Looking better and better by the day. Hugh effort by all parties. B.engineering, Theca, Steelcon, GCE. #masstimber #masstimberconstruction #prefab #prefabrication #dfma #structuralengineering #clt