"Australian Architects can design structures with the form and feel of timber, now with the spanning capabilities needed in the commercial and civic space"
"100% renewable, sustainable plantation-grown timber – achieving large spans with natural beauty"
"Timber provides impressive spans with a lighter footprint than steel or concrete – and has the added benefit of sequestering carbon in the structure"
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Architectural
McCormick Centre for the Environment
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Location:Renmark, South Australia
Architect:Phillips/Pilkington Architects
Engineers:John Bowley, Timberbuilt Solutions
Builder:Cox Constructions
Size:904 square metres
The McCormick Centre for the Environment in Renmark, South Australia is an environmental and education centre. It includes tourism displays, a tour desk and amenities, a 100 seat lecture hall, a wet laboratory for research and a catering kitchen for functions.
The structure is defined by distinctive timber portal frames which extend through the interior and project out to the verandahs.
The beauty of timber in this form softens and enhances the building and its surrounds.
Timberbuilt Solutions provided design, detailing and prefabrication of all these structural members and assisted with straightforward on-site construction.
The elegance of the timber structure was achieved with 100% renewable, plantation grown radiata pine LVL. The portal frames act as a carbon store which helps offset energy used during construction. Concealed steel fin plates and stylish metal dowels completed the high architectural finish.
...the prefabricated long span timber portal tolerances...required careful attention to detail