Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
Defence
Nioa Headquarters
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 arguable 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 center, an indoor 100m test fire range, weapons maintenance facility, secure armouries and explosives stores. *(as a Director of Artas Architects)
Location
Brisbane Airport
Client
Nioa
Status
Completed 2014
Area
8,100m²
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.
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


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