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ALONGSIDE A FAMILY
Meet: Amy Murray Refrigeration Service Apprentice Amy is a third-year refrigeration service apprentice Former beauty therapist Sarah is determined to and worked in Woolworths Supermarkets as a build a bright future for her family. After completing supervisor for several years. Determined to challenge pre-apprentice study at TAFE and building electrical herself, Amy pursued the new opportunity to take switchboards, Sarah applied for the Woolworths on a trade. Refrigeration Apprenticeship program and hasn’t A trailblazer, Amy was a part of the first cohort of looked back since. apprentices, facing challenges head on and never faltering from her determination to succeed in her new role and to be a role model for her sons. “I worked in the beauty industry before this role and when Covid hit, I was given the opportunity to take a leap of faith into my current role and it’s Her advice to others considering a career in the the best decision I ever made,” she says. “I have refrigeration trade? gained new skills that I can use in my day-to-day “Definitely do it! This career decision has changed my career path completely and I couldn’t be happier that I made that decision,” she says. “It’s rewarding life, I have more financial security. I love that I’m laying a solid foundation so that women can build on it in the future.” when we arrive at a site with a breakdown and we manage to get the case up and running for the store, without any stock loss.” The second-year refrigeration installation apprentice is thriving under the guidance of her mentors. “Woolworths is a company I can grow in, with an abundance of help from qualified professionals who will continue to support and further develop my knowledge.”
Meet: Amy Murray Refrigeration Service Apprentice Amy is a third-year refrigeration service apprentice Former beauty therapist Sarah is determined to and worked in Woolworths Supermarkets as a build a bright future for her family. After completing supervisor for several years. Determined to challenge pre-apprentice study at TAFE and building electrical herself, Amy pursued the new opportunity to take switchboards, Sarah applied for the Woolworths on a trade. Refrigeration Apprenticeship program and hasn’t A trailblazer, Amy was a part of the first cohort of looked back since. apprentices, facing challenges head on and never faltering from her determination to succeed in her new role and to be a role model for her sons. “I worked in the beauty industry before this role and when Covid hit, I was given the opportunity to take a leap of faith into my current role and it’s Her advice to others considering a career in the the best decision I ever made,” she says. “I have refrigeration trade? gained new skills that I can use in my day-to-day “Definitely do it! This career decision has changed my career path completely and I couldn’t be happier that I made that decision,” she says. “It’s rewarding life, I have more financial security. I love that I’m laying a solid foundation so that women can build on it in the future.” when we arrive at a site with a breakdown and we manage to get the case up and running for the store, without any stock loss.” The second-year refrigeration installation apprentice is thriving under the guidance of her mentors. “Woolworths is a company I can grow in, with an abundance of help from qualified professionals who will continue to support and further develop my knowledge.”
Meet: Amy Murray Refrigeration Service Apprentice Amy is a third-year refrigeration service apprentice Former beauty therapist Sarah is determined to Meet: Sarah Werth Refrigeration Installation build a bright future for her family. After completing pre-apprentice study at TAFE and building electrical switchboards, Sarah applied for the Woolworths and worked in Woolworths Supermarkets as a supervisor for several years. Determined to challenge herself, Amy pursued the new opportunity to take on a trade. ApprenticeRefrigeration Apprenticeship program and hasn’t A trailblazer, Amy was a part of the first cohort of looked back since. apprentices, facing challenges head on and never faltering from her determination to succeed in her new role and to be a role model for her sons. “I worked in the beauty industry before this role and when Covid hit, I was given the opportunity to take a leap of faith into my current role and it’s Her advice to others considering a career in the the best decision I ever made,” she says. “I have refrigeration trade? gained new skills that I can use in my day-to-day “Definitely do it! This career decision has changed my career path completely and I couldn’t be happier that I made that decision,” she says. “It’s rewarding life, I have more financial security. I love that I’m laying a solid foundation so that women can build on it in the future.” when we arrive at a site with a breakdown and we manage to get the case up and running for the store, without any stock loss.” The second-year refrigeration installation apprentice is thriving under the guidance of her mentors. “Woolworths is a company I can grow in, with an abundance of help from qualified professionals who will continue to support and further develop my knowledge.”
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Designed by Hassell in collaboration with Western Parkland City Authority and Dr Danièle Hromek of Djinjama, a First connected city. In the local Dharug language, the area hosting Aerotropolis, Nations cultural research and design practice, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF), Bradfield City Centre’s First Building in Western Sydney places sustainability at its heart and restores Aboriginal women’s culture as the lifeblood of the land. Hassell Principal, Board Director and Head of Design Liz Westgarth reveals the inspiration for this female-led design, home to the longest freshwater stream in Greater Sydney known as Wianamatta or ‘Mother Place’ in Dharug. Honouring the past and continuing connection to the present and into the future, the First Building is a collaborative space for government, industry and research to incubate innovative manufacturing projects. As the name implies, it’s also the first building to be designed for Bradfield City Centre, the new urban region that’s set to transform Western Sydney. This unique workplace will feature a visitor centre and public viewing spaces designed to showcase the real-time building progress of Australia’s newest, most sustainable, and most where Bradfield City Centre lies, is known as Wianamatta, which means ‘Mother Place’. It’s a site of significance for local Aboriginal women, reflected in the First Building’s open and welcoming architectural expression, a design language centred on ideas of water and fluidity, and the use of warm, soft, natural materials that touch the ground lightly. A celebration of the meandering and ephemeral water of the Cumberland Plain, the First Building reinstates the site’s permeability, collecting and filtering the building and the site’s runoff across and through a richly planted landscape of Cumberland Plain plant species and water features. Importantly, in looking at Western Sydney generally and Aerotropolis specifically, Djinjama’s Danièle Hromek, Hassell’s First Nations partner on the First Building, has highlighted water’s particular significance to women:
“Women have strong enduring relationships with water, from creating watery spaces within their bodies to grow life to having reciprocal care relationships with landscapes of water. Women and their roles in the cycle of life should be honoured in this place.”
An urban pavilion unique to place
Designed around the existing context of Cumberland Plain grasslands and woodlands but also as an urban pavilion in the future context of the city, the First Building is a human scale structure, which acts as a public space providing relief from the density of the surrounding urban context.
As the first building for Aerotropolis, it sets a benchmark for the city to follow based on an ethos of being ‘connected, green and advanced’. It promotes design that is of its place and connected to Country.
Strengthening ecological identity and function
The landscape response to the First Building will demonstrate how contemporary urban landscapes can successfully represent, be informed by, and champion existing ecology and natural landscape. The project will celebrate the Cumberland Plain of Western Sydney by immersing people and their activities within a richly planted, permeable ground plane and rooftop planting of locally, underused plant species. This will play a critical role in re-establishing an ecological identity for the site and set an important precedent for the future development of the Aerotropolis region. Water and water management is of great significance to this site and its wider context. The First Building adopts a holistic approach to water by capturing and storing rainwater for grey water use and landscape irrigation. Existing water bodies including the longest freshwater stream in Greater Sydney, will be regenerated to promote biodiversity, slow down run off, and allowing for natural filtration into the ground, which benefits the creek’s health.
Circular economy at the core
According to Dr Hromek, designing the First Building represents “a massive opportunity across time and space”. Appropriately, it answers the burning question: what happens when the building outlives its use? Here, we’ve embedded the idea of circular economy.
The building has been conceived as a ‘kit of parts’, its timber structure comprising prefabricated modular components that are mechanically fixed together. These can be disassembled, expanded, or even relocated.
Liz Westgarth
