The multi-award winning Qantas blast fence project will be featured in an exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. The blast fence, designed by Woolacotts Consulting Engineers, will feature in a display at the year-long engineering excellence exhibition in Sydney. Jet blasts have the power to uproot trees, shatter windows, overturn cars and trucks and injure people. The Qantas…
Woolacotts Consulting Engineers has been awarded another Victorian prison project. Loddon Prison is a medium security facility near Castlemaine. It accommodates 280 prisoners serving short, medium and long-term sentences for a range of offences, as well as prisoners with disabilities or other complex needs. The prison replaced Castlemaine Gaol, which serviced the goldfields and surrounding towns since…
Woolacotts Consulting Engineers has been awarded two education projects in Western Australia to provide structural, civil and geotechnical engineering consulting services. Cape Naturaliste College is located in Vasse, 240 kilometres south west of Perth. Known for its natural beauty, tourism and wine industry, the area continues to attract local development. Set on eight hectares, the college will…
The WA state government has announced Assure Partners consortium as the preferred respondent for the new Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison project in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia. Woolacotts Consulting Engineers acted as principal engineering consultants, advising the state government in its selection of the consortium for this $232 million public private partnership (PPP) project. Assure Partners, consisting of Capella Capital,…
Designed by Woolacotts Consulting Engineers, the new Qantas widebody jet maintenance bay is now up and running. Woolacotts was engaged to design hardstand areas for the maintenance and washing of 747 and smaller aircraft at the Qantas Jet Base in Mascot. “The runoff from washing planes cannot simply flow into stormwater,” explains Clare Woods,…
Aged care facilities across NSW will be required to install automatic sprinkler systems to reduce the fire risk for elderly and vulnerable residents under a landmark NSW Government initiative. Minister for Planning and Infrastructure Brad Hazzard announced today the mandatory installation of automatic sprinkler systems in all new and existing accredited residential aged care facilities in NSW. “In…