Residential Project

ACI STAGE 2, SOUTHERN CROSS DRIVE, MOORE PARK Extensive one hectare site consisting of five residential apartment towers, varying in height from 8 to 17-storeys, located over an extensive raised podium, with two below ground levels of basement carpark. The structure was designed and built as load bearing precast, with flat post-tensioned slabs. Precast walls were designed as spanning panels across carpark aisles, to avoid heavy transfer beams at podium level.

ADELAIDE STREET, BRISBANE Meriton Apartments first development in Brisbane is a 77 level apartment building located on the river adjacent to the Boundary St Bridge. The tower extends 245m above ground with a plan width of only 19m makes this building one of the most slender buildings for its height in the entire southern hemisphere and will require a liquid tuned mass damper on the roof to reduce the accelerations of the building under wind loads to within acceptable levels. The basement extends 10 levels below Adelaide St making it one of the deepest basements ever constructed in the Brisbane CBD and will take over 9 months to excavate.

XXV BREAKER Bonacci Group, Sydney, is currently working on XXV Breaker Street on the Gold Coast. The building is being developed by Macquarie Bank and is 25 storieys high, but only 9m wide and 30m long. The project began construction in April 2008. The majority of apartments in this luxury residential development take up an entire floor level and the distinctive shape of this building will ensure it becomes a prominent feature in the Gold Coast skyline.

COTTON BEACH Multiplex Living’s Cotton Beach development consists of 129 apartments and a café and is located in the beachfront community of Casuarina Beach on the far north coast of NSW and is a prestige low-rise, multi-residential development which forms part of the award winning master planned community of Casuarina Beach. The project features a central lagoon pool area and numerous apartments have individual plunge pools with infinity edges with the development rising three levels above ground with a single level basement. The project utilized full load bearing precast which helped significantly reduce construction times and also create the curved balconies which give this development its distinctive shape.

Dalgety A 22 storey apartment building in Townsville that once completed will be the tallest building in Townsville. The development also comprises a separate above ground 9 storey carpark. The tower building cantilevers 3m over adjacent building at L4 and is constructed with a combination of precast and insitu walls.

KIRRA SURF APARTMENTS A joint development between Macquarie Bank and Parkview Constructions, this luxury residential apartment building is located on the beach front at Kirra Beach and consists of a fourteen level apartment building over a large retail level with a single level basement below ground. Load bearing precast was used for the vertical structure for this building to both speed up construction and also provide the high quality external finish required by the project architects

LOUISA ROAD, BIRCHGROVE A luxury apartment building consisting of 6-storeys and 10 units, set on the banks of Sydney Harbour, at Birchgrove. A concrete framed and reinforced structure cut into a deep sandstone cliff face with Heritage buildings in the nearby vicinity that required attention to detail in excavation processes.

MOSAIC APARTMENTS Located at 420 Pitt Street, Mosaic is a 27-storey luxury hotel constructed in Sydney’s CBD, with a 9-level basement, external precast walls. Due to limited basement floor plate, the project contained a double car lift, rather than a basement ramp. The heritage façade on the lower levels has been restored to its original char

NORTH APARTMENTS A conversion of an existing 14 storey office building in luxury apartments overlooking the Harbour Bridge, a new 11 storey building & lift core is being constructed and will be fully connected to the existing structure to form a single building once completed.

The Melburnian The project, located on St Kilda Road, takes up a whole block and comprises three basement levels and a ground level podium. There are two identical mirror imaged residential towers of 26-storeys, which have a side core, flat plate floors, which are partially post-tensioned. Extensive use of precast load bearing walls was made to improve buildability and quality of finish. Bonacci Group provided full civil and structural consulting engineering services, including documentation of a number of façade elements.

Watergate Apartments, Docklands Watergate apartments is built on a triangular shaped site, in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. The structure consists of identical twin towers rising from a five storey podium. The development is a mixed-use commercial, retail and apartment complex, and also includes four-levels of carparking above ground level. Apartments are designed to function as home/offices and, internally, the apartments have separate arrangements for ‘work’ and ‘home’, allowing flexibility in both environments. The striking feature of this development is the diamond form of the chiselled towers. The perforated steel mesh panels provide a translucent but protective skin, which reflect the harsh sun and reduce solar heat loads, while the coloured glass ends provide further visual effect.

Pegasus A remarkable development situated on Queensland’s Gold Coast is being engineered by Bonacci Group’s Sydney office. The twin tower Pegasus apartment and commercial development will be located on a prominent highway site at Broadbeach. The two towers will be built on more than 8,600 square meters of land, with frontages to the Gold Coast Highway, Surf Parade and Elizabeth Avenue. The two towers are fully connected over ten levels starting at level 11. A complex piled raft foundation was designed for various stages of construction to ensure differential settlements between the two towers met with the design specification and tolerances.