Builder: Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd
Architect: PDT Architects & RPA Architects
Contractor: Brennly Enterprises Pty Ltd
Engineers: LCJ Engineers & Glynn Tucker Consulting Engineers
Project Value: $45million

The School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University is a multidisciplinary unit comprising of 40 academic, technical and administrative staff and 25 postgraduate and honours students.

This project proved to be quite a challenge for LCJ Engineers and Rondo to design, due to the very high wind loads together with wall heights up to 4.2m, which resulted in having back to back 150mm studs at 300mm centres. This project was nicknamed
“Steel City” and from viewing the images it explains why.

Rondo products specified for the project:
External Walls: 5,000m2 150mm x 1.15BMT (approx. 11,000 Lm supplied)
Internal Walls: 10,000m2 76mm x 0.75BMT
Ceilings: 10,000m2 DUO®

Brendan Johnston of Brennly Enterprises recognised this project as one of the most difficult he has worked on and thanked both LCJ Engineers and Rondo for their Technical Assistance in working out the design issues.