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NIOA Brisbane Office Expansion

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

Commercial, Defence, Workplace

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

Commercial, Defence, Workplace

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

Commercial, Defence, Workplace

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

Commercial, Defence, Workplace

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

Commercial, Defence, Workplace

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

Commercial, Defence, Workplace

Nioa Headquarters and Office Expansion

The NIOA Brisbane Office Expansion project was a response to demand for increased permanent office space for NIOA, a national defence supplier, and their rapidly growing workforce. The project includes 4 levels of new office space, a state-of-the-art boardroom space and a new glazed staff courtyard to tie the entire precinct together.

Location
Brisbane Airport

Client
Nioa

Status
Expansion - Under Construction | Headquarters - Completed 2014

Area
Expansion - 1,445m² | Headquarters - 8,100m²

Nioa Office Expansion

The NIOA Brisbane Office Expansion project was a response to demand for increased permanent office space for NIOA, a national defence supplier, and their rapidly growing workforce. The project includes 4 levels of new office space, a state-of-the-art boardroom space and new glazed staff courtyard to tie the entire precinct together.

Mass Timber

To enable a timely delivery for new office space, the entire structure is CLT which will be expressed internally and allows for a much shorter build time when compared to conventional systems. Timber buildings also generally have a lower embodied energy, being a sustainable and efficient alternative to traditional construction systems like steel and concrete.

The versatility and lightweight nature of the timber means it can be designed to be easy to disassemble, recover, reuse and/or recycle. Prefabricated timber can also reduce construction periods, be a safer and quieter material to work with. XLAM and Hyne, the Australian based CLT and Glulaminated timber suppliers estimated that the structural timber used for the new office would regenerate in approximately 45 minutes from the existing Australian commercial plantation forests.

NIOA Brisbane Headquarters - Commercial Architecture

Nioa National Headquarters - 2014

KIRK Principal, Dr Andrew Magub* was the Project Director, Project Architect and Project Manager for the new NIOA National Headquarters at Brisbane Airport. This unique facility is arguably one of the most advanced private defence facilities in Australia, directly supporting NIOA as the largest private supplier to the Australian Defence Forces

The NIOA state-of-the-art, high-security facility includes 5,000m² of warehouse, 2,600m² of office, showroom & conference centre, an indoor 100m test fire range, weapons maintenance facility, secure armouries and explosives stores.

*(as a Director of Artas Architects)

Dr Andrew Magub has designed, project managed and delivered a superb outcome for Nioa. The completed facilities have exceeded our brief and our business has been bolstered by such a unique and functional design. Our staff simply love working here and our clients are awed at the facility and our subsequent capabilities. The project included a large number of complex design, programming and detail requirements as well as a series rigorous authority bodies. All of which were resolved and managed successfully. I cannot recommend Dr Andrew Magub highly enough for any project.

Robert Nioa,
Managing Director, Nioa

Design Process & Approvals

The design and project management of the NIOA national headquarters included all briefing, negotiation and approvals from relevant authorities such as the Airport Building Controller, Brisbane Airport Corporation, Department of Defence, Queensland Police Service and Queensland State Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy.

High Security

The NIOA National Headquarters is a high security facility, designed from inception to include significant physical security measures in the design and construction as well as electronic measures. The entire facility has been designed and constructed with ramraid and intruder denial features.

Indoor Range

One of the key features of the NIOA National Headquarters is the indoor 100m test fire range, rated to cover weapons from small calibre up to 40mm cannon. This range is the only 100m indoor range of its kind in Australia and has been designed and constructed with significant mechanical, acoustic, ballistic, safety & security requirements. This provides perfectly controlled environmental range conditions.

Dangerous Goods

The Nioa National Headquarters includes the storage of dangerous goods (1.4S, 1.4C and 1.3C) in appropriate certified facilities.

Armouries and Maintenance Facilities

The NIOA National Headquarters included 3 of the largest private Defence Certified Type 1 armouries in Australia. The design, coordination and construction of these facilities was significant and involved at all stages. The facility also includes a state-of-the-art weapons maintenance facility and positively pressured clean room/optics lab. A high-end showroom was designed into the facility with the brief of a ‘European Hunting Lodge’ and is also a Queensland Police Service rated armoury vault.

Team
Project Director Expansion - Richard Kirk | Headquaters - Dr Andrew Magub (as Director of Artas Architects)
Project Manager Dr Andrew Magub
Structural Engineers Expansion - Aurecon | Headquaters - Optimum Structures
Buildings Services Expansion - Aurecon | Headquarters - BSI Projects
Hydraulic Engineer Expansion - Aurecon | Headquarters - BRW Hydraulics
Geotechnical Engineer Expansion - Douglas Partners | Headquarters - Soil Surveys
Certifier Expansion - Phillip Chun
Fire Engineer Expansion - Sotera
Acoustic Engineer Expansion - Vipac

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