Hybrid concrete construction can be described as being 'best of both worlds'. It marries together the advantages of precast and insitu concrete construction with often significant benefits. For example, the adoption of a hybrid concrete frame instead of a composite steel frame on a shell-and core office project in central London resulted in construction savings of 29 percent and a 13 percent increase in net lettable floor area.

235 St Georges Terrace, a joint venture project by Hawaiian and its development partner Brookfield Multiplex, will provide an unparalleled commercial building set in the hub of the Perth CBD.

Bishops See Stage 1 - South Tower, comprising a nine level office tower totalling 18,00 sqm is the first 5 Star Greenstar building in Western Australia and is set for completion in early 2009

Multiplex in Perth recently strengthened ties with SSL Western with the recent award of a significant contract on the Bishops See Stage 1 Project in the CBD.

The Bishops See Stage 1 south tower has set a first for Australia in being the only fully precast office building to attain the coveted 5 Star Greenstar office design rating awarded by the Green Building Council of Australia.

Bishops See Stage 1 has become the first project in WA to achieve a 5 Star Green Star - Office Design v2 rating

Arboricultural assessment Bishops See gardens. Report, 2006 ... Project future 239: Bishop's See development : application to commence development planning.

32-page booklet covering design and construction using hollowcore floor planks. Contents include: Introduction, Design Approach, Pre-Planning, Preliminary Design, Final Design, Construction, Guide Specification, Bibliography, Sample, Calculation.

This Handbook covers all aspects of Australian precast concrete construction including design, specification, manufacture and installation. The Handbook reflects current industry best practice featuring the latest innovative applications of precast concrete. It provides guidelines in the form of graphs, charts and worked examples. The Handbook is intended for architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and students as well as those involved in the building, infrastructure and construction industry.
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Precast concrete construction has managed to remain the least understood of the major forms of multi-storey building construction. Precast structures have been shown to be extremely cost effective, durable, stable, and of the highest quality and strength. Design, due to its specialised nature, often remains with the manufacturers and their personal engineers. This paper is designed to give further insight into the benefits of structural precast concrete design and construction, with particular emphasis on skeletal frame structures.

This paper has provided a broad overview of different historic developments for concrete high-rise buildings. The evolution of concrete skyscrapers from the first reinforced concrete high-rise, the Ingalls Building, which was 15 stories high to modern skyscrapers Petronas and the Jin Mao is discussed. How new innovations in construction technology such as the advances in formwork, mixing of concrete, techniques for pumping, and types of admixtures to improve quality have all contributed to the ease of working with concrete in high-rise construction is also briefly discussed in the paper.

Guide to Long-Span Concrete Floors has been produced to provide architects, building designers, structural engineers and architectural and engineering students and lecturers with an appreciation of the factors that should be taken into consideration in selecting a flooring system for a particular building. Covering major architectural, structural design and construction considerations this publication incorporates sketches and photographs and included graphs to enable designers to quickly identify appropriate floor systems to carry applied loading for the desired span and provide approximate dimensions for the preliminary design.
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Vibration is a serviceability limit state for the design of suspended floor systems in buildings that is not well understood by many structural engineers. Dynamic behaviour is an important design consideration for slender, two-way floors, particularly for those of post-tensioned concrete construction. At present, there are no reliable design guidelines that deal with this problem. This paper describes a research program on the dynamic behaviour of post-tensioned concrete floors that is presently underway at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

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Vibration is a serviceability limit-state for the design of suspended floor systems in buildings that is not well understood by many structural engineers, and is often ignored. Dynamic response is an important design consideration for slender, two-way floors, particularly for those of post-tensioned concrete construction. At present, there are no reliable design guidelines that deal with this problem. This paper describes a new approach for predicting the natural frequency of flat, post-tensioned concrete floor structures. The FCRF method is a revolutionary and convenient tool structural engineers can use to design for the vibration serviceability limit-state of cast-insitu, post-tensioned concrete floor systems.

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Fabquick are a supplier of self climbing jump form systems and self climbing perimeter screen systems, their website has a range of technical and project information on these systems.

Peri Australia are a supplier of self climbing jump form systems and self climbing perimeter screen systems, their website has a range of technical and project information on these systems.

POST-TENSIONED slab design is widely used in Australia, with the main benefits over conventionally reinforced concrete being its ability to span greater distances without resorting to thick slabs and beams (and the consequent loss of head height), and reduce deflection and cracking. There are also some associated labour and time savings.