Ever increasing commercial pressures require that building designs be effective and economical from project inception. The failure of a consultant to recognise this fact can affect project viability.
This does not mean that developers no longer seek high quality outcomes. Required building quality levels vary from project to project. It is a key role of the consultant to recognise the Client’s building quality aspirations whether they be high or low, and to design accordingly.
Members of the Octave team have extensive experience in the delivery of building projects of all quality levels from bare code compliance through to ‘ultra premium’. Whilst acoustic requirements may vary significantly from project to project, one thing that remains the same is the need for value management to achieve the required outcomes as cost effectively as possible.
Members of the Octave team have an acute understanding of this need which they have demonstrated in their long list of experience on the planning , design and construction stages of all types of projects including apartment, hotel and commercial towers, shopping centres, airports, cinema complexes, defense facilities, schools, tertiary institutions and entertainment centres.
Project types that we provide services to include:
- Multi-residential / Apartment buildings
- Mixed use buildings
- Educational facilities (School, Universities)
- Office buildings (base build & fit-out)
- Critical spaces (cinemas, studios, auditoriums, performing arts)
- Health care facilities
- Shopping centres
- Libraries
- Stadium & sports facilities
- Aged care facilities & retirement living
- Places of worship
Services that we provide include:
- Comprehensive acoustic contract documentation & construction stage services
- Air-borne & impact sound insulation testing
- Façade design & assessment
- BCA/NCC Design, assessment & testing
- Town planning assessments & reports (DCP, DA)
- Mechanical Services / HVAC attenuation design
- Strata & body corporate assessments
- School BQSH assessment
- Reverberation design, testing & assessment
- Construction site inspections
- Construction noise & vibration management
- Green Star design & assessment
- Acoustic peer review & value management
Building projects our team has worked on include:
- Hyatt Hotel, Downie Street, Melbourne
- Yarra Valley Grammar: George Wood Performing Arts Centre Redevelopment
- Marrickville Aquatic Centre redevelopment
- Moritz Apartments St Kilda
- Bowden Brae Aged Care, Stage 2, 40-50 Pennant Hills Road, Normanhurst
- Hoyts Cinema Complex Redevelopment, Chadstone
- Malvern Gateway Apartments, cnr Princess Highway & Glenferrie Road, Malvern
- Pinks Reserve Netball Facility
- PBS Studios, Melbourne
- Botanic Apartments, 25-29 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
- Mentone Grammar: Creativity Centre (includes 450 seat theatre)
- Boutique Luxury Apartments, 171 Wattletree Road
- Student Accommodation, 303 Royal Parade, Parkville
- Prahran Apartments, 17 Grattan Street
- Doncaster Apartments, 19-21 Fredrick Street
- Trinity College Student Accommodation (100 bed), Parkville
- Brunswick Apartments, 240-250 Lygon Street
- St Peters College Theatre
- Preliminary review for the new Hoyts Docklands complex
- Mazenod College Lecture Theatre
- SCC Chapel, Dandenong
- North Geelong Chapel
- Leopold Community Hub
- Frankston City Monterey Reserve Soccer Pavilion
- Dock Square Library
- Wheelers Hills Secondary College Gymnasium
- Cranbourne RACE
- Grovedale Community Hub
- Manningham Community Centre
- Lincoln Square Student Accommodation, Carlton
- Event Cinema Complex, Northlakes
- Student Accommodation, Franklin Street, Melbourne
- Oak Park Aquatic Centre
- Monash University Main Sport Pavilion Redevelopment
- Grey Street Serviced Apartments, Traralgon
- North Melbourne Apartments, 3 Howard Street
- Riverside Netball & Tennis Centre Redevelopment – City of Moonee Valley
- Hoyts Cinema at the Monash Children’s hospital
- Spring Road Apartments, Malvern;
- Vermont South Apartments, 431-441 Burwood Highway
- Hawthorn Apartments, 469-471 Riversdale Road
- Thornbury CLT Apartments, 752 High Street
- Malvern Apartments, 1-3 Como Street
- Preston Apartments, 161-195 High Street
- Essendon Apartments, 118-120 Buckley Street
- Highett Apartments, 10-14 Major Street
- Parkdale Secondary College Performing Arts
- Shirley Burke Hall Refurbishment
- Theatre at Victoria International School, Sharjah, UAE
- De La Salle College Chapel Development
- De La Salle College Lecture Theatre Development
- Victoria Harbour Boating Hub
- Kathleen Syme Library
- Hawthorn Aquatic Centre redevelopment
- New Schools PPP Project 2015
- Diamond Creek Stadium
- Kew Aquatic Centre Upgrade