EDGY Building University of Southern Queensland

Location

Springfield, QLD

Client

Badge Constructions

Role

Design & Construct

Year

2016

Value

$5.6M

VAE were engaged by BADGE Construction to design and deliver the mechanical services within the new EDGY building at the University of Southern Queensland’s (USQ) Springfield Campus.

The new building consists of a working TV studio with supporting production rooms, flexible teaching spaces, executive offices and meeting rooms, laboratories, café and bookshop as well as multi-purpose media rooms with dedicated areas such as rehearsal rooms.

#The Project

The EDGY building was designed and built to achieve a 5-star rating under the Green Star Education V1 criteria. This system includes environmental improvements such as increasing the outside air rates within the building, improved circulation, demand-based ventilation through the use of carbon dioxide monitoring and control, improved setpoint and control to raise the thermal comfort levels, exclusion of hazardous materials such as formaldehyde and products giving off high Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and high efficiency Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems to reduce the carbon footprint of the site.

Engineer

Advisory Services
Design
BIM Drafting
Drafting co-ordination
Audit

Construct

Prefabrication
Installation
BMS
Automation
Electrical
Co-ordination of Services

Manage

BMS
Bureau Performance Management
Maintenance
Compliance
Upgrades

#Smarter HVAC Solution

During the construction of the EDGY Building, the university was undergoing a separate project (being completed by another contractor) involving their existing central energy plant (CEP). The CEP project experienced a major pipework failure (main chilled water line imploded), due to incorrect isolation of plant. This resulted in the University having no Air Conditioning (AC) within any of their existing operational buildings. VAE were requested to assist in getting the AC at the University up and running, we had the plant back online within 48 hours.

BADGE’s Services Manager, Ian Smith, said that there was “no other company in Brisbane who could provide the Engineers, Automation Technicians ad Plumbers to rectify the problem that quickly.”