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Design makeover for Scott Base
Specialist designers will be involved in an upgrade of Scott Base at Antarctica that will allow scientists to undertake crucial field work year round.
THE REFURBISHMENT, part of a 3-year project to enhance the base, will add three new internal laboratories, mobile laboratories, additional capacity for specialised external laboratories and other facilities.
Antarctica New Zealand has assembled a team of four to create four designs over the next 12 months as the current base reaches the end of its functional life.
They are:
● architecture – Jasmax-Hugh Broughton
Architects
● quantity surveying – Turner and
Townsend
● structural/civil engineering – WSP Opus
● building services – Steensen Varming. Euan Mackellar of Jasmax-Hugh Broughton Architects says he is looking forward to the challenge. ‘It is an incredible honour to be working with Antarctica New Zealand on the plans to redevelop Scott Base where we need to deliver high-performance
Scott Base – a specialist team will create design options for the future.
buildings in one of the most extreme natural environments on the planet.
‘We intend to role-model environmental stewardship while creating a design that caters to New Zealand’s scienti c and strategic needs in Antarctica. We are
looking for e ciencies in how we, and our facilities, operate through all aspects of the design.’
A detailed business case will be presented to government with concept designs in December this year.
residential, public and commercial buildings where lead paint is present.
AS/NZS 4361.2:2017 provides information on methods to determine:
● if lead is present on a building
● the amount of lead present
● the selection of an appropriate manage-
ment strategy.
It applies to lead paint only and provides guidelines to produce a safer working environment.
Standard for lead paint management
A new standard provides a guide for tradespeople performing lead paint management work to deal with lead paint and related hazards in a safe and responsible way.
AS/NZS 4361.2:2017 Guide to hazardous paint management – Part 2: Lead paint in residential, public and commercial buildings provides guidance for the manage-
ment of lead paint on non-industrial structures like residential, public and commercial buildings. It will help builders, tradespeople, architects and owners of
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