Another heritage restoration project engineered by Woolacotts is due to open in late 2017
Woolacotts is providing structural and civil engineering to specialist justice and emergency architects Perumal Pedavoli. One of the key challenges is the preservation of the heritage elements and the façade facing Albion Street. Being a tight inner-city site also meant significant underpinning of an adjacent church. The $38 million specialist Children’s Court is a blend […]
Enhancing the Potts Hill Police Facility: Restoring Stability for Long-Term Safety
The Potts Hill Police Facility required essential remediation after hillside instability and localised landslip caused significant building movement and pavement failure in critical operational areas. Restoring a safe and reliable environment was central to protecting the NSW Police Force’s ongoing daily functions. Woolacotts supported Downer Group and Duratec Limited by assessing the site conditions and […]
Design Solutions for NSW Gun Ranges
Due to our extensive experience working with correctional facilities, Woolacotts Consulting Engineers have recently been engaged to investigate options for the remediation and prevention of further slope failures at various correctional centre shooting range sites.
Clarence Correctional Centre
Woolacotts contributed in a significant way to the concept design, authority approvals, detailed design and construction of the new Clarence Correctional Centre. This major facility with a construction budget of $700M has almost reached completion of the structural and civil engineering components. All buildings have now been roofed and enclosed, and almost all of the […]
Grafton Correctional Facility – Update
The Northern Parthways Consortium has released renderings and a fly-through of what our engineers have been working on at Grafton Correctional Centre. Link here to check it out, caution when downloading its a large file (for a large project!) Site establishment work is already underway. Have a look at the project backstory for more details of our […]
Engineered options for gas, water, sewerage and fire hydrants systems
John Morony Correctional Complex is an Australian maximum- and minimum-security prison complex for males and females. The complex comprises three separate correctional facilities: John Morony Correctional Centre (a medium security correctional centre for men); Outer Metropolitan Multi-Purpose Correctional Centre (a minimum-security correctional centre for men); and Dillwynia Correctional Centre (a medium security correctional centre for […]
Grafton Correctional Centre
The new 1700 bed Grafton Correctional Centre is being delivered as a PPP (Public – Private – Partnership) by The Northern Pathways consortium on behalf of the NSW Government. Woolacotts is supporting John Holland as the structural and civil engineering design partner for the new facility. Woolacotts has one of the most comprehensive and successful histories of […]
Prisons passing capacity
Woolacotts Consulting Engineers has seen a sharp spike in enquiries to provide engineering design services from builders, architects, private prison operators, and state governments for prison projects. Business Development Director Jeremy Bierer believes that our growing population, truth in sentencing laws and stalled capital investment to build new beds has resulted in “a pent-up need […]
Engineering Innovation In Victoria
Woolacotts Victorian team, based in Melbourne, deliver a range of engineering consulting services across Structural, Civil and Hydraulic disciplines. With 80 years of company experience, Woolacotts have been operating in Victoria since 1970, and have developed a vast portfolio of successful projects across a wide range of sectors. Working alongside Victorian councils and Government bodies […]
Assure Partners selected for Eastern Goldfields Prison PPP
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, […]