As part of its community investment program, Woolacotts Consulting Engineers supports a number of organisations with donations, volunteering and fundraising. One of these organisations is a family refuge centre in Western Sydney. Run by St Vincent De Paul, it assists families who have found themselves without a home due to the biggest cause of homelessness for women…
North Beach Bathers Pavilion, has won the regeneration and new development award at the National Trust of Australia (NSW) heritage awards. The award was presented at a ceremony at Doltone House in Jones Bay, Sydney. It recognises the conservation of built heritage through design, capital works and repair. “This is a wonderful and well deserved achievement for…
With a history of hundreds of school, college, and university projects completed, Woolacotts Consulting Engineers continues to power ahead in the education sector in Australia. Woolacotts has been engaged to provide the civil, structural, and hydraulic engineering design for several vocational college upgrades. Cooma TAFE will receive a new carpentry workshop, customer service and student support facilities, while…
Woolacotts Consulting Engineers is helping SARM Architects to deliver a bold solution for a new centre at Marist College. The Montagne Centre will contain a multipurpose hall, including a including a stage, rooftop playing field, associated amenities, and a three storey teaching facility. The creative design meets the client’s requirements in a limited space, and Woolacotts…
From Monday 18 March, Woolacotts Consulting Engineers Sydney office will be located in the Solitaire building in Chatswood. Following a period of growth, including several new key hires, the company has outgrown its space in Artarmon. Woolacotts Consulting Engineers will share two levels of the Solitaire building, together with its parent company, infrastructure delivery and management firm Daly International.…
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,…