Second timber building, Daramu House, to call Barangaroo Home
25 June 2018
Lendlease:
Barangaroo South has further cemented its
reputation as Australia’s best
property development with
planning
approval for a second
engineered timber office building being granted.
The
building will be known as
Daramu House, which means “tree house” in
the aboriginal
Sydney Language[1] (also known as Dharug and Eora). Its construction
will follow the successful completion of
International House Sydney at
Barangaroo in 2017.
Daramu House will be Lendlease’s sixth engineered
timber building in
Australia, and the third project to have come out of the company’s
precision timber manufacturing centre in Eastern Creek,
Western Sydney.
The new building, which will be completed in late 2019, fronts Hickson
Road and will be an outstanding addition to Barangaroo South’s already
thriving mixed-use
precinct of restaurants, cafes, shops and services.
Daramu House will consist of more than 10,000 m2 of commercial floor
space and approximately 680 m2 of new retail. Building on Barangaroo’s
already well-established green credentials, Daramu House will include
the use of sustainable timbers, as well as roof-top planting to capture
rain, and solar photo-voltaic cells to enable power to the building and
the precinct.
Quotes attributable to Rob Deck, Managing Director, Barangaroo
South.
“Daramu House will provide tenants with health and wellbeing benefits
combined with a warm, clean and natural environment.”
“This building will be Lendlease’s sixth engineered timber building in
Australia, joining its neighbour, International House Sydney as well as
25 King St in
Brisbane, the
Forte Apartments and Library at The Dock in
Melbourne, and the
Jordan Springs Community Hub in Western Sydney.
“With engineering by Lendlease’s DesignMake business, Daramu House will
offer ground level retail tenancies, six floors of office space
constructed from cross laminated timber and glulam (glue laminated
timber), a building material with a structural strength akin to concrete
and steel.
“Lendlease is committed to achieving innovative and sustainable
solutions. Barangaroo South has already achieved Australia’s first 6
star
Green Star Communities rating and
WELL Certification for Core &
Shell at the Platinum level, the highest certification available.
[1] http://www.williamdawes.org/docs/troy_sydney_language_publication.pdf
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