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St Peters Girls School engaged Swanbury Penglase to develop a new Science and Art Centre for dedicated ‘STEAM’ learning. Located at the entrance to the campus, it is a visible demonstration of the school’s commitment to the pursuit of these areas of study and their importance for the future.

The building is sited to complete and enclose the cloister created as part of the Middle School upgrade completed in 2015 and provides lift and stair access to the new two level facility and a roof terrace at the top of the development.

It houses seven new laboratories, including three dedicated to the main disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. These are located on the ground floor in a space with exposed services intended to demonstrate some of ideas learned within. The Physics lab can be opened to the circulation space via a curved operable wall which allows for larger scale experiments and demonstrations including the use of the school’s two hoverboards. The floor finishes create identity for each space with a square metre grid also marked out to provide a measurable context for learning.

On the second level are another four laboratories, including one set-up for longer term experiments, typically for a ‘scientist in residence’ program. Each level is serviced by dedicated preparation spaces including a fire rated Chemical Store on the ground floor. The lift allow for equitable access to all floors plus the easy transportation of equipment and goods to all levels including the roof terrace proposed for weather related experiments.

Nestled adjacent are two new art studios. On the ground floor, the Senior studio breaks into the rear of Elizabeth Pike building, breathing new life into this space gifted to the school by ex-School Principal Elizabeth Pike, for arts practice. The rawness of the older structure contrasts with the clean lines of the new building. Upstairs, a glassy and light filled studio awaits the Junior students with views back across the campus.

With a project budget of $7M, the school has gained a significant suite of new spaces slotted into the remaining space available on what is a very constrained site. The architectural façade signifies a new ‘future focused’ era of learning at St Peters.

Golden Grove based Pedare Christian College has undertaken an ambitious move to combine their Junior and Middle/ Senior School campuses onto a single site on Surrey Farm Drive. This project necessitated the relocation of the Middle School to make way for new Junior School buildings. It is part of a larger master-plan which will see the entire school refined and redeveloped.

Pedare has taken this opportunity to integrate current thinking around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) into a STEM- centric middle school building a prime educational space, as well as a showcase for the school. The flexibility demanded by such a programme has also heavily influenced the new Junior School buildings.

A gymnasium has been added to the campus, accessible by all school levels, incorporating basketball, netball, volleyball and badminton, with provision also for hiring to large sporting and non-sporting groups.

The landscape design is expansive, incorporating age-appropriate playgrounds, entrance treatments, soft and hard -play areas and a redeveloped northern car-park and kiss’n’drop.

The two cultures of the separate schools, until now geographically separated also have been brought together. The blending of these cultures has also very much influenced the arrangement and form of the new buildings.

2020 Parks & Leisure Australia Community Facility of the Year for South Australia.

Submitted as part of the Federal Stronger Regions Funding initiative, Edwardstown Oval was identified by Marion Council as an important cultural and community icon that would be strengthened through an upgrade.

The facility consists of an oval, velodrome, RSL memorial gardens, a community hall, football, cricket, cycling and bowling clubs and various leisure pockets including playgrounds and fitness areas.

The project consolidated the club functions into a single function centre, under a single management body incorporating representation from all clubs. In addition, extensive renovation of the velodrome was undertaken, and this is circumnavigated by a 1.5m loop path providing access and leisure opportunities for the community.

Upgraded car-parking and general landscape treatment further bolsters offering. This upgrade greatly increases the exposure of the grounds, attracting visitors from beyond the clubs’ traditional boundaries.

The St Clair Recreation Centre is the result of a design and Construct partnership between Swanbury Penglase and Badge Constructions.

The Centre consists primarily of a 6-court basketball stadium within a column-free space, afforded by a substantial and heavily engineered steel roof truss
system.

The courts are flanked by retractable seating areas, change rooms, store rooms and amenities.

Ancillary spaces include meeting rooms, a cafe at the front entry, an upper level function space, including commercial kitchen, with views over the indoor courts and a dedicated indoor roller skating rink.

The project is in the context of a broader City of Charles Sturt master plan which includes an outdoor nature play area, skate park, outdoor basketball and tennis courts and playing fields. The project originated as a refurbishment and extension of the existing St Clair Recreation Centre, a modernist structure built in 1962 as the ‘St Clair Youth Centre’, most likely designed by John Tulloch. The original centre has a local heritage listing, and has been stripped of later additions and incorporated into the new larger structure.

The project exhibits sustainable initiatives such as maximising natural light, (whilst excluding glare to the courts), admission of natural ventilation and on-site stormwater management, and a 30% increase over standard Building Code requirements for energy efficiency.

The redevelopment of Playford International College was the final piece of a 3-year transformation plan that focused on improving academic outcomes at the school. The physical improvements, comprising additions and upgrades, supported changes to the way the school will deliver education by providing flexible and stimulating spaces that encouraged different modes of learning.

Through a comprehensive briefing process with school and Department, Swanbury Penglase developed a detailed Scoping Study identifying development priorities which were costed to inform a final budgeted scope of works. The final scope of works comprised a new Performing Arts Centre, Physical Performance Training Centre, Hospitality Training Centre, Visual Arts Centre, Supported Learning Centre, the redevelopment of the school reception, new access and entry statement, upgrade of staff support spaces and amenities and general building refurbishment.

Following the completion of the redevelopment project, Swanbury Penglase was engaged to undertake a Planning Study for the STEM Works Upgrade at the school. Through extensive consultation with the school leadership team, Science and Maths (iSam) faculty and the Department, the proposal for a new building extension was agreed. The STEM Centre provided a flexible learning environment with interconnected ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ labs, project rooms, associated support spaces, teacher preparation spaces, informal student breakout spaces and dedicated outdoor learning areas. Moreover, the STEM Centre transformed the configuration of the traditional school buildings by connecting the opposite wings and establishing linkages with the adjacent science laboratories, new Visual Arts Centre (STEaM model), Global Studies (Humanity) programs, maths classrooms and IT facilities. The provision of new stair access resolved existing egress violations from the first floor whilst establishing the interconnection of ground and first floor learning spaces. It also served to create a double height space over the informal student breakout area with high level glazing to maximise natural light. Aligning with the building function, the design exposes the building structure and services as an added learning experience for students. In the same way, the existing building materials are exposed and featured as a way celebrating the building’s history.

Sited in a prominent location within the Bowden precinct, the design of this four storey residential development consciously drew on the history of the area and its industrial context. The dynamic facade references the sawtooth roof forms of the existing industrial buildings with materials and finishes evoking this historical industrial character. The articulation of the façade, with its projected window forms and balconies was a deliberate design response to activate the street frontage whilst capitalising on the views over the public park opposite.

Comprised of 34 residences, including one and two bedroom apartments and three bedroom penthouse suites, residences have a dual aspect, maximising natural light and promoting cross ventilation. Apartments are arranged around a large communal courtyard, ensuring a high degree of amenity, including facilities for outdoor cooking, entertainment and recreation.

The confined site posed a creative challenge to ensure that the project met the client’s commercial brief whilst still delivering high quality accommodation for residents. Collaboration with the construction manager throughout both the design and documentation phases allowed the project to be value engineered from the start ensuring a cost effective outcome.

Such was the success of our first stage warehouse and office development, Beerenberg Family Farm at Hahndorf engaged us to help them deliver a new state of the art food production and processing facility as well as a new product development area to support their rapid growth.

This second stage project commenced at the end of 2016 with a collaborative team approach including the Beerenberg production team, a process engineering consultant and Swanbury Penglase, all with the primary aim of delivering a suitable food production shell that facilitated the integration of highly technical food production equipment, bottling and packaging lines. Early in the design development, the process engineer established the importance of high quality control and speed of food production to make the most of the bottling and packing line equipment and ensure that it was being utilised to its full potential.

The end result is that Beerenberg now has a facility that has doubled its production capacity, keeping up with significantly increased sales in recent years.

Interestingly the facility can now produce 60,000 bottles of condiment in one shift and one of Beerenberg’s new production lines can now fill and label 120 retail jars every minute.

A third stage which mainly consisted of the actual production equipment installation and integration ran parallel with stage 2 to ensure a seamless coordination. This highly collaborative process between the consultants for both second and third stages, along with the approach taken by the Beerenberg team was even greater then what we traditionally experience but given the nature of the technical equipment, food hygiene and services requirements we believe this was critical to the success of the project.

As a new iconic address for the CBC Senior Campus, the building provides a new public entrance with supporting Administration spaces as part of a new three storey Innovation and Learning Centre.

The facility includes high quality specialised areas for music, science, and art to help establish another STEaM Centre (i.e. Science Technology, Engineering, Art(s) & Mathematics) with supporting collaborative study and maker spaces. The building’s design strongly references the use of crystallised geometric forms and mathematics and exposes building elements as an added learning experience for students.

The project improves circulation connectivity, with new multiple glass links and an open roof deck, specifically designed for student led STEaM and ESD experiments. Internally, the use of natural materials with simple colours and textures creates a high quality learning environment, complemented by controlled natural and artificial lighting, refined acoustics, fresh air movement and internal planting.

With a working relationship spanning over twenty five years, Fresenius Kidney Care and Swanbury Penglase have designed and delivered in excess of thirty dialysis clinics throughout Australasia.

The clinics provide a high level of clinical care whilst recognising that patients spend a substantial amount of time at the clinic on a regular basis; on average 3-4 hours a day three times a week. The design of the clinic environment therefore plays a significant role in their overall quality of life.

Typical aspects of the patient centred-design approach includes the use of soft welcoming colours, diffuse lighting, the maximisation of external views, the provision of audio-visual entertainment and internet connection are vital considerations in the final presentation of the clinics.

The clinics are highly serviced with high quality reverse osmosis water loops, body protected electrical services, patient monitoring software and nurse call systems. Mechanical services are specifically designed to provide a draught free environment and careful control as patients are temperature sensitive, particularly to the cold.

Maintenance of a sterile environment is also essential and the detailing of fixtures and fittings, wall and floor junctions and finishes selections have been developed to be both robust and be easy to clean and maintain.

Some examples of completed dialysis clinics nationally include:

• Mater Hospital, Sydney, 20 Stations
• NorthWest Hospital, Sydney, 16 Stations
• Auckland, New Zealand, 10 Stations
• Spearwood Clinic, Perth, 24 Stations
• Alice Springs, 18 Stations
• Katherine, NT, 20 Stations
• Varsity Lakes Clinic, 16 Stations
• Brighton, SA, 30 Stations
• Mater Hospital, South Brisbane, 16 Stations
• Brookwater, QLD, 8 Stations
• Sunshine, VIC, 16 Stations
• Forrest Hill, VIC, 16 Stations
• John James Hospital, Canberra, 16 Stations
• St George Hospital Satellite Clinic, NSW 23 Stations
• Clinic at Cannington, WA, 28 Stations
• Clinic at Midland, WA, 32 Stations
• Clinic at Stirling, WA, 32 Stations

Working in association with Sydney-based architectural firm BVN, our team successfully delivered the University of South Australia’s new 14 storey Bradley Building on North Terrace: on time and budget.

Located alongside the Morphett Street Bridge and adjacent the New Royal Adelaide Hospital, the SAHMRI building and Adelaide University’s Health and Medical Sciences Building, the Bradley Building is a high-profile landmark and an integral part of the new South Australian Health and Biomedical Precinct.

Our landscape architecture team also worked in collaboration with the Adelaide University design team to develop a new suspended landscaped ‘Urban Park’ between both buildings.

The building houses the Centre for Cancer Biology (CCB) which links the UniSA community with approximately 250 of Australia’s top cancer and health researchers, in addition to other innovative, multidisciplinary research laboratories. At the lower levels it features ‘MOD’, a new ‘future museum’ intended to inspire a new generation of science aware community.

Swanbury Penglase worked with Renewal SA and Sage Automation to develop a new head office and adjacent manufacturing space under the Main Assembly Building (MAB) roof at Tonsley.

SAGE Automation is a leading South Australian manufacturing business specialising in high end automation and engineering switching and signage systems. They had outgrown their previous space at Melrose Park which had seen the business split across six separate tenancies that had been acquired as the business grew.

The decision to relocate to a purpose-built central facility was a significant milestone for SAGE, allowing them to bring all of their teams back together in the one space, under the one roof. It was significant too for Renewal SA as it filled a comparatively large part of the MAB internal space, enclosing a significant portion of the western side of the MAB and providing further momentum to the redevelopment.

The project consists of a 1330m2 open plan office building floating below the existing MAB structure and a 2175m2 manufacturing space which utilises and integrates with the existing MAB structure to provide an open and light filled space suitable for high end manufacturing of complex automation and control gear.

The project includes base building works and an integrated open plan fitout for 100 staff, most of whom are engineers. While Tonsley has a range of excellent food outlets available, the brief included the provision of a large staff break out space, another first, to provide informal space for staff to gather.

The project development stage saw close collaboration between all parties to ensure the high design standards for Tonsley were delivered, both externally and in the fitout.

In addition to the Sage facility, a separate tenancy space of 165m2 was created and fitted out with an integrated tenancy for Co-HAB, another tenant which Swanbury Penglase had previously worked with in the Main Administration Building at Tonsley.

Swanbury Penglase were engaged in late 2016 by Flinders University to design a new Organic Chemistry Laboratory in the north east corner of level 2 of the Physical Sciences building.

The existing building was built in the late 1960’s and the area of works in the north east corner of the building had changed little since that time, incorporating some of the original laboratory spaces.

Due to the age of the building, there had been significant issues identified by the University with respect to existing Fire and Life Safety provisions being deficient with respect to current codes and standards. Of particular relevance to this project was the existing building fire compartmentation.

The new laboratory facility compromised two main spaces; a main wet laboratory space with four fume cupboards, flexible island benching and fixed wall benching supported by a smaller Equipment Laboratory with an additional Fume Cupboard and a mix of flexible, fixed and specialised wall benches.

Being located on second level down from the top of the building, there were significant challenges in reticulating fume cupboard exhaust risers through the occupied level above to the roof. These challenges were further complicated by existing fire compartmentation issues which involved extensive collaboration with our certifier and the fire service and required careful detailing of all existing and new building penetrations to ensure compliance with the NCC.