INSTITUTIONAL
CHANDLER PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL
CLIENT: PATRICK ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided Civil and Structural Engineering services on this project.
The project involved the demolition of the existing school building, the construction of a new learning centre building and a separate Creative Arts Studio.
Due to the slope of the site and poor ground conditions found under the proposed Creative Arts Studio, the ground slab for that building needed to be suspended over screw piles.
The civil works were challenging as disabled access requirements were required to all building foundations adjacent to existing non-compliant pavements. This was achieved with a mixture of retaining walls and ramps.
PORTARLINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL
CLIENT: PATRICK ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided Civil and Structural Engineering services on this project.
The project involved the construction of a new Junior school building for all the classrooms and administration.
Due to the slope of the site where the building was located, the floor was required to be timber construction with classroom breakout areas elevated on timber decks due to the height above the existing ground.
All existing buildings on the site were demolished except for an historic school building above the existing ground which was refurbished.
NORWOOD SECONDARY COLLEGE
CLIENT: PATRICK ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided Civil and Structural Engineering services on this project.
The project involved the construction of a basketball stadium with two full size basketball courts and retractable seating.
The stadium was constructed over the existing external basketball courts and partially into the existing embankment. The design issues on this project involved the management of overload flows during storm events from the embankment and the school buildings above the area.
The path on the north-west side of the stadium was designed to direct overland storm flows from the batter around the building.
BALLARAT TECHNICAL SCHOOL
CLIENT: PATRICK ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided Civil and Structural Engineering services on this project.
The project involved the refurbishment of an existing two storey building of Federation University in Ballarat. As part of the DET’s Technical School program, the building was to become the new Ballarat Technical School.
The project involved the construction of a new entry foyer and a front façade to the existing building. A section of the existing suspended slab was required to be removed to create space in the entry area and the lift was installed to provide access between levels.
The existing building was built over a steeply sloping site in Ballarat. Due to the slope, the ground floor slab and columns where supported and deep pad footings and bored piers. As a result the new entry foyer needed to be supported on footings founded at a similar depth.
Retaining walls were required to retain the existing sloping ground under the building which created issues with constructing these walls under the existing ground floor slab.
ST. JUSTIN’S PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHEELERS HILL
CLIENT: CROSIER SCOTT ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided structural and civil engineering services on this project.
The new Multi-Purpose building incorporated a gymnasium, stage & music room for this eastern suburb school.
The building was constructed as a clear span portal framed structure with a fully suspended long span timber floor.The steeply sloping site required deep concrete bored pier foundations to ensure that slope stability was not an issue.
BELLARINE SECONDARY COLLEGE, JUNIOR CAMPUS, OCEAN GROVE
CLIENT: HAYBALL, LEONARD & STENT
Gillon Consulting Group provided civil and structural engineering services on this project. The existing Ocean Grove High School was demolished and replaced with a totally new school facility.
Five new separate buildings were provided along with the upgrading of carparks, new basketball courts and a new football oval. A wetlands stormwater retention area was developed at the low point of the site to control stormwater outflow into the sensitive Swan Bay catchment.
WHITEFRIARS CATHOLIC COLLEGE, DONVALE
CLIENT: GRAEME LAW & ASSOCIATES
Gillon Consulting Group provided structural and civil engineering services for the extension and refurbishment of the existing administration building and the new wing of the Visual Arts Performing Arts Building.
The Administration Building design incorporated a number of special architectural features including the tapered support columns and curved soffits. The V.A.P.A extension consisted of a two-storey steel and concrete framed building with face brickwork.
WALLINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, WALLINGTON
CLIENT: PATRICK ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided structural and civil engineering services for the construction of a new administration, classroom and library building for Wallington Primary School located on the Bellarine Peninsula.
The single level building was constructed with a concrete raft slab, timber roof trusses and brick veneer external walls.
A special feature of the building is the bell tower which houses an historic bell in the central atrium.
MOOROOLBARK EAST PRIMARY SCHOOL
CLIENT: CROSIER SCOTT ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided structural and civil engineering services on this project.
A new gymnasium building, upgraded and extended classrooms and associated car parking was provided for this eastern suburb school.
MACKILLOP CATHOLIC REGIONAL COLLEGE, WERRIBEE
CLIENT: MACKILLOP CATHOLIC REGIONAL COLLEGE
Gillon Consulting Group provided civil engineering design services for the access roadway and carpark for the new sports centre at MacKillop College.
The project consisted of an asphalt pavement to the road and carpark with a mix of concrete feature pavement to tie in with the architectural landscaping layout.
Pavements to the expansive clays of the western suburbs of Melbourne require careful design and detailing to ensure a suitable life span.
CAIRNLEA PRIMARY SCHOOL, DEER PARK
CLIENT: PATRICK ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided for structural and civil engineering services for this new Primary School on a greenfield site in Melbourne’s north west.
The Building foundations were constructed in an engineered fill podium placed on the site.
The raised podium provided an homogenous material for easier excavation and minimised the amount of costly excavation required in the underlining basalt bedrock.
Facilities provided include two new classroom wings and an administration building featuring exposed roof trusses and clerestory highlight windows. A separate gymnasium building was constructed along with new asphalt basketball courts and carparking.
MT. WAVERLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, MT. WAVERLEY
CLIENT: CROSIER SCOTT ARCHITECTS
Gillon Consulting Group provided civil and structural engineering services on the regeneration of the existing primary school.
Great care had to be taken during design and construction to incorporate a heritage listed classroom building into one of the new classroom blocks.
The new buildings consisted of steel framed single level masonry veneer construction supported on raft slabs.
THOMAS CARR SECONDARY COLLEGE – STAGE 4, TARNEIT
CLIENT: GRAEME LAW & ASSOCIATES
Construction on this new Catholic Secondary College in Melbourne’s western suburbs commenced in the 1990’s. Stage 4 completed in 2002 included a new gymnasium and student assembly building that was completed in 2002.
Gillon Consulting Group provided structural and civil engineering services on this project and previous stages of the school development.
