WORLD-CLASS MUSIC, WORLD-CLASS ELECTRICAL

摘要

Prime Electrical has had a major role in one of Australia's most technically advanced buildings. Sean Carroll delves into the scope of the award-winning project. The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is an advanced facility housing Australia's oldest and most prestigious music institution. It sits in The Ian Potter Southbank Centre at the heart of Melbourne's arts precinct. The Con offers University of Melbourne students a range of disciplines at undergraduate and graduate level as well as being a performance space for the university's Symphony Orchestra. The entire development is a $105 million project across nine floors, and it includes a 443-seat cantilevering auditorium, a 200-seat ground-floor studio, and various rehearsal spaces and studios. It can also claim to have the world's largest oculus windows, which are 6m in diameter. With the music cohort increasing by more than two-thirds since 2010, the Con has evolved to cater for student numbers while expanding its availability to the public. Prime Electrical & Data Services was responsible for the electrical side of the new building, work that won the medium commercial project category at the 2019 NECA Awards. After winning a competitive tender from Lendlease, Prime completed the supply, installation, testing and commission of the project. Project manager David Edgecumbe says Prime has exceptional longstanding partnerships with suppliers, allowing project pricing to be packaged and margins to be enhanced. "We openly communicated the project expectations, and our suppliers understood our requirements. This resulted in fast delivery of products and helped us to meet the tight deadlines."