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To design and manage, within a very tight timeframe, the construction of the building and civil engineering components of a $50M extension to the existing sawmill while it remained in operation.
To provide robust, low maintenance, economic, durable structures accommodating the chosen sawmilling plant but with flexibility to alter or add to this in the future.
To minimise noise transmission to neighbouring residential areas.
To use timber construction where appropriate.
- A 9000sq m building extension with an upper level mill floor and massive machine bases all constructed around three sides of the existing operating mill and designed to accommodate the installation of new sawmill plant and 100 bin sorter.
- A new, 8000 sq m planer mill and dry store for packaged product housing a high speed planer and associated bin sorter on a partial mill floor. Floor slab designed for 28 tonne axle load forklifts.
- New kilns and associated buildings, 3.4ha of hardstand, new roads, new offices, car parks, landscaping, stormwater disposal etc.
Principal consultant for civil”contracts. Design of all buildings, foundations, machine bases, etc.
The forestry building design brief was fully met and production was maintained throughout the construction period. Client-supplied product use was maximised with the 50m clear span Planer Mill structure being predominately constructed of Pan Pac timber and mill floors and sound attenuation being achieved using LVL in conjunction with other timber products. The buildings have proved to be robust, economical and functional and the noise mitigation effective. Tight budgetary and time constraints were met.
The planer mill design won the Bureau Veritas / Carter Holt Harvey / SETMA Award for Functional Excellence in Timber Design for 1998-9.
For a client’s perspective of this project please contact Tony Clifford of Pan Pac Forest Products, who was Project Manager for the Sawmill Redevelopment Project. Phone: (06) 831 0100.
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