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Left, below and below
right:Communal areas are
positioned between the offices
and laboratories on each floor.
Facing page, lower:A 250-seat
auditorium is also a feature.
Lower left and right:Each
floor is colour coded. Clutter
is minimised by keeping most
equipment in a central store.
Full-height windows provide
plenty of natural light.
Story by Colleen Hawkes
Photography by Robert Frith

some or all of a zone’s cooling needs without
mechanical cooling from chillers. Variable speed
drives allow equipment to be accurately controlled,
which results in greatly reduced energy use.
Air-to-air heat exchangers precondition the outside air, and variable volume air conditioning allows
different areas to be supplied with conditioned air
from one item of plant, while maintaining accurate
temperature control in each space. Water-cooled
high-efficiency chillers also provide increased
efficiencies over conventional chillers, particularly
during part-load operation. This results in significant reductions in energy usage.

The success of the building is not only evident in
the community involvement, but also in the industry
awards it has received to date.
These include the Jeffrey Howlett Award for
Public Architecture, 2014 in the Western Australia
Architecture Awards; the Best Education Building
in the Master Builders-Bankwest Excellence
in Construction Awards 2014; and the Interior
Architecture Award 2014 from the Architects
Institute of Australia.

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