The Carlton Wellbeing Precinct Project will provide three stand alone buildings arranged around a new central public park, and will consist of retirement living, aged and assisted care accommodation and community services. Meinhardt is providing structural and civil engineering services for Building 5.

Early on in the project we worked with the architect to eliminate costly transfer structures and create a flat plate situation for the slab, thus reducing formwork and manual labour costs. As the most expensive part of a building is labour, having thicker slabs and higher material quantities but a simple build is more cost effective.

By reducing steps and changes in geometry in the slabs it speeds up the cycle time to build suspended floors. This process will reduce the cost to the building and as such allow more architectural features to remain part of the building post tender, creating a more attractive end product. We have been accommodating of the very tight time frame with scheme to tender in just 6 weeks.