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University of South Australia: City West Campus University of South Australia: City West Campus University of South Australia: City West Campus University of South Australia: City West Campus University SA Building 3A
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Steelwork construction for 'The Drum' Steelwork construction for 'The Drum' Southern building detail The impressive glass facade of 'The Drum' The impressive glass facade of 'The Drum'
'The Drum' glass facade and East wall 'The Chasm' North Terrace facing glass detail 'The Chasm' North Terrace facing glass detail

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: HAWKE BUILDING

Designed by John Wardle Architects in association with Hassell, the building will be the University’s corporate headquarters, and includes a 450 seat auditorium and a substantial new University Art Museum gallery.  Unique architectural features include the North Terrace “dramatic concrete façade intersected by a rock-clad waterfall of blue glass, cascading to ground level” and a large cut-away drum shape at the upper level. 

Engineering Surveys was involved at all levels of building setout including foundations, columns, precast-walling and subsequent steelwork and glazing.  Reflectorless distance measurement technology was used with great effect in the alignment of the drum feature and particularly with the as-built and setting-up of the unique cut-away glass façade section – which features 3 adjoining triangular glass planes with different aspects.  This survey technology effectively slashed the time of steelwork as-builts and design plane setting-out by half.

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