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Azure Blue Integrated Living Project

October 2013 ($60M)
Queensland – Australia

This  new retirement, community and residential aged care project is located on a 4 hectare Greenfield site at Carina in Brisbane.

Azure Blue Carina will comprise both a care precinct and a luxury retirement living precinct where residents’ amenities include a swimming pool, café, library, function room and media room.

Residents will have access to a range of hotel services including meals, laundry and cleaning as well as the option of in-home care, provided by Blue Care’s Community Care services.

The site also offers the benefit of a co-located residential aged care facility for 128 residents.

The project consists of a 128 bed High Care aged care facility in two, three storey connected structures, plus administration, community facilities, a commercial kitchen, commercial laundry, loading dock and basement car parking.

It also includes 98 Independent Living Units (ILUs) comprising 22 apartments over four storeys including recreation facilities, café and pool, and basement car parking; 70 Units in three and four storey connected buildings including basement car parking; and six single storey villas (duplexes).

Wesley College Moubray Street Project

June 2013 (21.7M)
Vic Australia

The Moubray Street Project includes refurbishment of the Menzies Wing and Adamson Hall, and construction of a new Music and Performing Arts Centre. The project includes a staged handover and will be carried out while normal operations continue on campus.

Box Hill Institute Integrated Technology Hub

May 2013 ($26.1M)
Vic Australia

An educational building comprising 4 levels for a total GFA of 6000sqm. The project will include construction of the base building, integrated firtout, link structure, access road, and all external works (hardscape and softscape). The building will accommodate an occupancy of 584 persons, consisting of 70 staff and 514 students.

Deakin University AFFRIC Buildings ‘nj’ and ‘nk’

May 2013 ($26.7M)
Vic Australia

The project comprises of two buildings; ones to be occupied by the Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing (VCAMM) the other by the CSIRO. Both buildings are PC2 capable. VCAMM will occupy the building known as ‘nj Building’. This building, when completed will deliver 2,771 sq/m Gross Floor Area (GFA) (not including mezzanine level plant areas) and includes:
A highly serviced space for the manufacture of carbon-fibre (CF)
A gas oxidation plant to treat oven and furnace waste to worlds best practice
An air-conditioned plant control room, rack room for control equipment and a ventilated power room to directly support the operation of equipment on the CF line
Specialised plant spaces and storage spaces to support the operation of the CF line, including a cooling water system
An Ultra High Purity (UHP) N2 storage facility, industrial grade compressed air and a fire separated room for the storage of precursor material
Air-conditioned office space for administration, meeting rooms, amenities and storage.
Storage for a laboratory and plant waste.
The VCAMM facility is the first carbon fibre pilot line operated by a university in the world an is a unique project. Consultation with stakeholders to ensure that all design parameters are well understood has been critical to the design development of this part of the project.

Royal Melbourne Hospital Allied Health Project

September 2012 (20.0M)
Vic Australia

A highly complex project with a strong focus on existing building services, consituting enabling Works in the operational Royal Melbourne Hospital

University of Ballarat Science and Engineering Precinct

November 2012 ($31.7M)
Vic Australia

Construction of a new facility for undergraduate and post graduate courses and research in occupational health and safety, Environmental Management, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Geology, Civil Engineering and Structures, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry and Food Science and Technology as well as housing Administration and the Head of School.

Deakin University REACH

October 2012 ($40.0M)
Vic Australia

A 4 storey building of approximately 8000m2 of Educational, Office & Lecture Theatre facilities with central Atrium public realm space. Located at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds Campus, the main focus of the $40M Reach building will be Undergraduate teaching of Allied Health sciences programmes.

CSL Limited 5000L Cell culture Facility

May 2012 ($26.1M)
Vic Australia

A greenfield project, the first to be delivered as part of the expansion of the existing Broadmeadows facility.

University of Wollongong – Kooloobong Student Accommodation

May 2013 ($36.5M)
NSW – Australia

Located on the University of Wollongong’s Main campus, this project will mark the sixth project Cockram Construction have undertaken for The University.
Cockram were engaged late 2011 to undertake the early works prior to being awarded the main construction package. The early works included site clearance, services relocation, bulk earthworks and piling.
The project scope for the main works includes the construction of a new student accommodation building containing approximately 360 beds. Works also include basement car parking for 205 vehicles and extensive external landscape works.
The project works for the new facility will be staged with Block A to be handed over and occupied as the 1st stage prior to the remainder of the building being completed for handover

University of Canberra – Laboratory Project

January 2013 ($13.6M)
NSW – Australia

The project scope for the new laboratory facility at the University of Canberra includes the construction of a 4 storey building comprising:
- undercroft cycle/carparking space with potential Tutorial & Teaching facilities
- 1st floor – Mega Laboratory – a teaching laboratory with support facilities
- 2nd floor – Pharmaceutical Science & Pharma Laboratory – teaching laboratory with support facilities
- 3rd floor – Research laboratory with support facilities.
The facade to the building is dominated by vertical brick banding – the building has full/partial height vertically fixed metal fins to the east facade.
A heavy precast concrete wall wraps around 3 walls of the 2 teaching laboratory elements of the building leaving the fourth wall a transparent skin of glazing.

University of Sydney – Concord Clinical Education Centre

October 2012 ($8.8M)
NSW – Australia

The $8.7M project works which will be undertaken for the University of Sydney will be constructed in the live operational Concord Hospital Precinct.
The project works for this new facility designed by Suters Architects include the demolition of the existing building K26. On completion of the demolition, a new building will commence and comprise of 2 floors with office and teaching facilities, wet and dry laboratories and lecture theatres.
Some external works are included in the project scope and consist of landscaping and the re-diversion of existing services.

University of Sydney – Centre for Carbon Water and Food

July 2012 ($10.5M)
NSW – Australia

Due for completion in July 2012, the project involves the construction of a new 3-storey building containing offices, laboratories and meeting facilities. Project works include:
Level 1 – an initial preparation room, biogeochemistry laboratory, plant preparation laboratory, soil preparation, incubator room, store room, 2 cold rooms & 2 freezer rooms. This level also includes a dry laboratory, wet laboratory, analytical laboratories, image analysis & microscope room, plant physiology laboratory, balance room & bulk storage.
Level 2 – contains office space & amenities and a total of 32 academic offices are provided on the second level.
Level 3 – contains an accessible concrete roof, and an open roof area of 230 sq m. The western end of the building at level 3 would be used to provide general services such as amenities, staff kitchen, information technology services room & store room.

Tooheys Bright Beer Cellar

May 2012 ($1.8M)
NSW – Australia

Located at Tooheys Lidcombe facility, the project works for the new Bright Beer Cellar include:
- Demolition and Relocation of the existing Brewing Maintenance Workshop and Engineering Offices;
- Civil construction, foundation and drainage works;
- Installation of the new bright beer cellar plant within new civil structure including new beer transfer lines from each filter
line to the new bright beer cellar and to each packaging filler;
- Installation of new CIP set to service the new bright beer cellar and beer transfer lines to packaging and fillers;
- Installation of new services lines to service the new bright beer cellar (including CO2, compressed air, glycol,
de-Aerated liquor, steam, towns water)
- Electrical Low Voltage Control and Monitoring Systems Installation
This is the second project Cockram Construction has undertaken for Tooheys.

Charles Sturt University – National Wine and Grape Industry Centre

May 2012 ($7.2M)
NSW – Australia

The NWGIC is located on the grounds of Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga Campus.
Designed by DesignInc Architecture, the project works include the part refurbishment and additions of two existing buildings and the construction of a new three-storey laboratory building (including roof plant-room area) to provide for additional research laboratory space, functional staff and education areas and a larger cellar door facility for CSU wines and cheeses.
The Services within the facility include: Level 1 – Cellar, Lounge Room, Wine Store, Office, Wet Areas; Level 2 – Shell Structure Only; Level 3 – Radiation Room, Office, Calibration Room, 4x PC2 Lab Rooms, Wet Areas, Cool-Room, Freezer Room; Level 4 – Plant Room & Attic Level.

Continental Expansion Storehouse

June 2012 ($5.0M)
Tianjin China

The project is an expansion of an existing facility in Tianjin and will primarily consist of warehouse space for the storage of high quality automotive electrical parts. The building will incorporate inspection rooms, storehouses and office areas.
Cockram was engaged by Continental to provide an EPCM consulting service which involved the URS preparation and review of the design documentation prepared by a local Chinese Design Institute. Our service continued on into a full construction management delivery where CPL engineers were provided to the site to supervise and manage all site activities, including Safety, Quality, Time and Cost. The project was completed in January 2012 and achieved all client objectives.

AstraZeneca Broad Market Manufacturing Site Project

December 2013 ($230.0M)
Taizhou China

AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading Pharma companies, is planning to establish a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Jiangsu Province, China. The proposed manufacturing facility is named China Broad Market Manufacturing Site, which is located in China Medical City, Taizhou, also known as “The Medical City” due to the rapid development of medical research centers. The land size of approximately 92,000m2 and gross build up area of approximately 51,000m2 including two main production areas:
• Sterile dry powder filling for injectable Cephalosporin products
• Oral Solid Dosage products
The project consists of two phases, Phase 1 and Phase 2. Both phases are considered as one project and will be built now with different fit-out contents.
As the leading CM Company for Major Pharma projects in China, Cockram Projects is contracted to provide Procurement and Construction Management Services. The services will involve a team of approx 40 CM professionals for a 2 year period. Cockram’s past experience over the past 20 years in China on similar projects was instrumental in AZ’s decision to select Cockram over other international Engineering firms.

Boehringer Ingelheim Panda Project

December 2013 ($50.0M)
Shanghai China

The project is the enlargement of the production and packaging capacity of Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) existing Shanghai site, to fulfill the requirements of the Chinese market and other regional markets. The total constructed new building area is approximately 17,000m2 for this current phase due for completion in 2013. Cockram’s role is the Procurement and Construction Management Company responsible for the execution and delivery.

The scope of the project includes Four new major buildings & two smaller buildings including an Ampoule & Solids packaging building (APP), a High-Bay Warehouse (HBW), a Centre of Competence (CoC), a New Canteen (CAN), a New hazardous goods store building (HGS), and a New south gate house (SGH). Also included are modifications for a new shipping & receiving area, a new QA/QC Lab, alterations to site infrastructure (e.g. new 4000KVa substation) and Alterations to roads & parking.

Due to the project being constructed on a fully operational pharmaceutical manufacturing site, extensive planning and great care has been required to ensure facility operations will not be impacted. Heavy construction will occur beside the existing facility and the team will not only deal with many constructability issues, but also need to make adequate consideration of the many GMP and regulatory issues to ensure the daily site operations are not impacted.

Applecross Senior High School Redevelopment

February 2012 ($40.0M)
WA – Australia

The Applecross Senior High School Redevelopment project consists of the construction of a new building and the refurbishment of existing facilities. The school was built in 1958 and is heritage listed. The project is staged over 6 separable portions with an estimated completion date of 27 February, 2015. Estimated value of the project is $40m.
One of the biggest challenges of the project is ensuring that the school staff/students are not impacted in their day to day activities. The school staff and students will be moved around progressively to accommodate the construction stages.

Hunter Medical Research Institute

Apr 2012 ($70.0M)
Newcastle, NSW – Australia

Located within the Rankin Park campus adjacent to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, the 16,000 m² building consists of two five-storey wings (east & west) of solid elements linked together by a two-storey elevated glass entry pod. The partnership development between Hunter Medical Research Institute, Hunter New England Health and The University of Newcastle represents a significant capital investment at the John Hunter Hospital Precinct and shall provide for 450 leading researchers under the one roof. The project consists of the following key features: PC2 laboratories, specific pathogen free zones, clinical trial support unit, animal holding areas (bio resource facility), outdoor semi enclosed recreation and barbeque area for the staff, workstations and generic open plan laboratories, lecture theatre and associated support staff offices and amenities. Construction of a three tiered open deck car-park for 250 vehicles is also part of the construction works to be undertaken.

Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland

April 2013 ($32M)
Queensland – Australia

The Centre for Advanced Imaging is a highly advanced medical imaging facility which will include two cyclotron units, used to generate radioactive isotopes for medical imaging equipment. The new structure is being built on the University of Queensland’s St Lucia Campus, and will also include several magnetic resonance imaging units, a full floor of PC2 laboratories, associated teaching and academic spaces and related facilities.

It is the only facility of its type in Australia, one of only a handful in the world and once completed will house a powerful MRI system that is more than twice as strong as any other MRI system currently available in the Southern Hemisphere.

The project includes the extensive refurbishment of the adjoining Gehrmann Building and also the chillers on the nearby Ritchie Building.

This highly advanced project requires specialist construction skills, given the very high operational standards required for cyclotrons and MRI installations. Cockram Construction’s prior experience with cyclotron and advanced medical imaging projects, plus our commitment to deliver a highly skilled project team, were instrumental in reinforcing our reputation as one of a small number of contractors capable of delivering a project of this nature.

Learning Innovation Building, University of Queensland

May 2012 ($12.0M)
Queensland – Australia

The Learning Innovation Building, designed by Richard Kirk Architect, will co-locate multiple teaching, learning and innovation based centres and institutes.

This new building is centrally located within the campus, and features Class II coloured concrete and an innovative louvre façade system.  Focussing on the delivery of advanced learning technologies, the structure has a gross floor area of 2400 square metres over four levels, with associated external works.

The building was constructed within an operating university environment, and is adjacent to highly sensitive seismic facilities in the Richards Building, posing a number of construction challenges.

Minerals Accommodation and Laboratories (Bldg 21B)

February 2012 ($8.0M)
NSW – Australia

Located within the Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organisations (ANSTO) Lucas Heights facility, the project works include the construction of a new laboratory and an extension to the existing mineral accommodation building. In continuing our long standing relationship with ANSTO, this will be Cockram Constructions 11th project undertaken with the organisation.

National Wine and Grape Industry Centre

May 2012 ($7.2M)
NSW – Australia

The NWGIC is located on the grounds of Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga Campus.  

Designed by DesignInc Architecture, the project works include the part refurbishment and additions of two existing buildings and the construction of a new three-storey laboratory building (including roof plant-room area) to provide for additional research laboratory space, functional staff and education areas and a larger cellar door facility for CSU wines and cheeses. 

The Services within the facility include: Level 1 – Cellar, Lounge Room, Wine Store, Office, Wet Areas; Level 2 – Shell Structure Only; Level 3 – Radiation Room, Office, Calibration Room, 4x PC2 Lab Rooms, Wet Areas, Cool-Room, Freezer Room; Level 4 – Plant Room & Attic Level.

Baxter Healthcare Expansion Project

March 2011 (US$40.0M)
Guangzhou – China

The facility will produce sterile renal products in soft plastic bags and the project scope includes a full development of 2 new filling lines and the construction of a multi storey manufacturing building around 20,000 sqm with associated facility and utility systems and a new additional 2nd floor office adjacent. The facility will have full sprinkler protection and will be required to meet both local Fire Code and Factory Mutual standards requirement.

Sanofi Minsheng Relocation Project

December 2011 (US$30.0M)
Hangzhou – China

This Relocation Project is a joint venture between Hangzhou Minsheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Sanofi-Aventis.

The current facility specializes in manufacturing OTC items such as vitamins and health products, predominantly coated and non-coated tablets, capsules and soft gelatin capsules, including packing of the products in bottles or blister packaging. The existing plant will be under ongoing production during the relocation phase.  Major equipment will be relocated and started up in the new facility so as not to affect the supply to market.

Sanofi-Aventis Lotus Relocation Project

January 2012 (US$50.0M)
Hangzhou China

Located within the Rankin Park Campus adjacent to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, the 16,000 m²building consists of 2 five storey wings (east & west) of solid elements linked together by a two storey elevated glass entry pod. This project is a green-field facility in Hangzhou for Sanofi-Aventis designed to replace the current production facility. The site has a total area of 49,587m2 of which the new plant will be approximately 30,000m2.  The new facility will comprise areas including manufacturing, distribution centre, warehouse, solvent store, energy centre, administration, laboratory and amenities.