Client: JAC Group

Location: Battery Point, Tasmania

Category: Multi-Residential

The MET Apartments are a luxury apartment complex in Battery Point Tasmania, comprising seven high end apartments and a lap pool.

The works included extending and converting the existing office buildings, comprised of a three-level structure and a five-level concrete and precast structure, into luxury apartments with views over Hobart and the surrounding area.

Key engineering features of the project included:

• Occupancy sensing for various exhaust and electrical systems control.

• Lighting throughout utilised the latest in technology for the period coupled with control systems.

• Public access, carpark lighting installations.

• Multi-installation NBN service.

• General power, data and USB charger outlets design including surge protection.

• Individual MATV systems.

• Panel heating and associated controls.

• Under tile floor heating and associated controls.

• Towel heating.

• Fully integrated access control and video intercom systems allowing remote unlocking/locking of Apartment and Common Area entry doors and gates.

• High level, complex integrated home automation systems to controls items such as lighting scenes, motorised blinds, electric windows, background and cinema systems, air-conditioning and heating systems.

• Split system, ducted A/C systems with particular attention to acoustics.

• Natural gas reticulation to each apartment to service outdoor BBQ’s, decorative log fires and cooking appliances.

• Smoke exhaust/pressurisation systems to AS 1668.1 to allow safe evacuation by residents inclusive of smoke dampers and fire fan control panel.

• Car park exhaust with variable speed drive control to automatically adjust fan speed settings via remote CO and air monitoring sensors.

• Laundry dryer exhausts.

• Kitchen rangehood exhausts.

• Ducted vacuum systems.

• Wall wetting sprinkler systems to AS 2118.1 and 2118.2.

• Fire detection and occupant warning system to AS 1670.1 utilising multi-sensors to limit spurious alarms within each apartment form cooking mishaps and the like. Coupled with multi sensing fire detectors, each apartment had an alarm acknowledgement facility designed into the systems to allow residents reset an alarm caused by a non-fire event.

• Vertical transportation systems i.e. passenger lifts.

• Hot, cold and tempered water systems.

• Complex stormwater and sewer systems.