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FJMT’S 200 GEORGE STREET SHOWS THAT TIMBER CAN WORK ON COMMERCIAL SKYSCRAPERS
IT’S FINALLY HERE: FIRST AUSTRALIAN CLT PLANT TO OPEN IN 2017 Meanwhile, Australia’s first crosslaminated timber (CLT) manufacturing plant will be built in the Albury Wodonga region by mid-2017. The facility will produce 60,000m3 of CLT each year and will be owned and operated by Xlam, a CLT company who’ve been manufacturing the building material at the their New Zealand-based plant for the past five years. ■
INTERIOR VIEW OF 200 GEORGE’S CLOSED CAVITY FAÇADE. IMAGE: PROVIDED BY MIRVAC
Australia’s first pressurised closed cavity façade with built-in timber venetian blinds for solar shading has been applied to Mirvac’s new landmark project at 200 George Street, Sydney. Designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT), the 37-storey tower contains approximately 16,000sqm of floor-to-ceiling Moisture-Maintenance Free, Sustainable, Closed Cavity Façade panels (M-free-SCCF) which are produced by architectural envelope specialists Permasteelisa Group. Fully automated timber venetians sit within the cavities of the panels and are controlled (opened
and closed) by a building-wide IP network which offers sun-tracking, shadow management and integrated web based remote controls. The dynamic shading device plays a key role in the management of the heat and light transfer into the building, whereby glare and solar radiation can be controlled depending on the location of the sun relative to the building whilst also maximising the view. The blind motor manufacturer, Somfy, produced a 365 day suntracker model for all parts of 200-George’s façade, meaning the building effectively knows where the sun should be at all parts of the day.
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