METRO Property Development's Newstead Central - Stages 2 & 3 towers named Laguna and St Tropez respectively are currently under construction at the hands of Hutchinson Builders. Architecturally designed by COX Rayner, Laguna and St Tropez will share their site with five towers upon final completion of all stages.

As the principal structural engineer on the project, FSE has collaborated and coordinated with Hutchinson and COX to to arrive at an efficient solution that consider's constructability and performance. The structural analysis and design of walls and columns for gravity, wind, earthquake and robustness load combinations was conducted using RAM Structural System (RSS). The structual analysis model was assembled by stacking the individula RAM Concept (CPT) floor plate models. After the building was analysed in RSS, the Level-4 transfer podium was exported from RSS and imported into CPT with all of the transfer loads applied and load combinations defined for detailed design of the post-tensioning tendons and conventional reinforcement. One of the many engineering challenges, including partial top-down construction, was that the tower loads from the future Stages 4 & 5 had to be accounted for in the design of the Level-4 transfer as well as the associated walls, columns and piles that needed to be built for Laguna and St Tropez. This meant that a complete analysis of all four buildings was necessary. Using the stare-of-the-art in structural engineering software such as RSS and CPT facilitated itteritave analyes and design with agililty.

The directors of fidelisstructural engineering extend their gratitude to Hutchinson Builders for providing the opportunity to work with them and their entire team on this very special METRO Property Development project... THANK YOU!

FSE is proud of its involvement as the structural engineer for the design of an innovative segmental anchored waler system for the retention of 1 WIlliam Street with TEAM Rock Anchors and Mainland Civil Contractors. Anchor assemblies on th...e Gardens Point Road side of the excavation had to be on a 60deg declination from horizontal in order to strike competent rock and avoid the footings and pilons of the Riverside Expressway and achieve loads aproaching 180 Tonnes on two rows at 2.4m horizontal centres.