20 HINDMARSH SQUARE
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Contract Value
$80.3 MILLION
Construction Period
JULY 2008 - FEBRUARY 2010
Client
HINES GROUP
This project is situated on the former Academy Cinemas site on Hindmarsh Square in Adelaides CBD. It involved the construction of 311 hotel rooms over 15 levels, basement and level one car parking, conference rooms, and a restaurant and bar area. InterContinental Hotels Group was awarded the hotel management, and named the hotel Crowne Plaza Adelaide.
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This project is situated on the former Academy Cinemas site on Hindmarsh Square in Adelaide’s CBD. It involved the construction of 311 hotel rooms over 15 levels, basement and level one car parking, conference rooms, and a restaurant and bar area. InterContinental Hotels Group was awarded the hotel management, and named the hotel Crowne Plaza Adelaide. In addition to the hotel, a 14 level residential apartment complex will be constructed, offering 89 one and two bedroom apartments, car parking and ground floor retail tenancies. The structure is insitu reinforced stressed concrete with facades of insitu concrete, precast and aluminium glazed windows.
The façade was converted from a mixture of insitu and precast concrete to all precast concrete. This allowed for a faster floor to floor cycle and improved the final quality of the façade. Ongoing design reviews were driven by Baulderstone to achieve speed and efficiency on site throughout the structural, services and fit-out process. Design reviews also included subcontractor’s feedback to minimise costs.
Another innovative aspect of the project was that three jump forms were used to construct the lift shafts and fire stairwells. Post tensioned flat plate slabs were adopted to increase speed and efficiency. A specialised post tensioning consultant/contractor was engaged to design the horizontal elements of the structure i.e. suspended slabs. A local consultant was appointed to design vertical elements (lift shafts, stair wells blade walls, precast and columns).
