Borallon Correctional Institution

Location

Ironbark, QLD

Client

BAS (Building & Asset Services)

Year

2017

Value

$5.4M

#The Project

Borallon Correctional Centre is a 492-bed facility located outside of Brisbane. It incorporates a training facility educating inmates in skills such as automotive, engineering, construction, horticulture and kitchen operations which increases the opportunity for gainful employment upon release. 

The construction project is currently run within the live Prison at Borallon which requires a higher level of coordination for logistics and pre planned constructions activities that normal sites do not normally experience.

With upfront engineering, VAE were able to provide an alternative mechanical design to not only provide a significant cost saving to the client, but to also provide a more efficient mechanical system that is easier to construct, commission and maintain.

#Key Achievements

01

Off site fabrication to minimise waste within the facility.

02

Management of construction zone to eliminate temptation for theft.

03

Quality plan to ensure built in certainty of operation.

Complete turn key Distech BMS package with HLI monitoring of the HVAC plant

Complete turn key Distech BMS package with HLI monitoring of the HVAC plant

Manufacture of over 1000 custom stainless steel perforated security grilles and bars

Manufacture of over 1000 custom stainless steel perforated security grilles and bars

Automated smoke control louvre systems with BMS monitoring

Automated smoke control louvre systems with BMS monitoring

Active hot smoke testing of smoke extraction systems to ensure compliance

Active hot smoke testing of smoke extraction systems to ensure compliance

12

The project has an approximate build time of 12 months.

300,000

Over 300,000 minutes of laser CNC cutting in the custom stainless perforated steel grilles.