Midtown Centre
Brisbane

Formerly known as the Forestry & Health Buildings

Services
Project Director

Client
AM Brisbane CBD Investments

Involvement
July 2017 to September 2021

Scope of service as Project Director includes responsibility for managing the project from a strategic level, managing the design, authority approvals, marketing and leasing strategy, procurement, project budgets, reporting and delivery in the redesign of the former Forestry and Health buildings (26,500sqm over 20 levels in 2 separate buildings), to combine into a single commercial building, achieving 45,000sqm over 26 levels.

Midtown Centre redevelopment has been designed to facilitate the achievement of ecological sustainability and is an exemplar project of how to repurpose existing end-of-life assets into a contemporary, next generation workplace.

Features

• Australian exemplar for urban regeneration:

  • 246% more environmentally friendly by retaining and repurposing than demolish and new build;

  • 36% reduction in carbon emissions

  • Equivalent to removing 2,500 cars from the road or 4 years of the buildings energy consumption

• Industry benchmark for re-purposing two 1980’s office buildings into a single modern commercial office building 

• Industry first to yield an additional 70% NLA

• True Value-Add proposition, transforming a $66M acquisition into a $660M institutional grade asset

• PCA A-Grade and Premium lifting standard (2019)

• Target 6-Star Green Star Office Design and As Built ratings

• Target 5-Star NABERS Energy (Base Building) rating

• Target WELL Gold rating (Core and Shell)

• COVID responsive design

• 3,150sqm outdoor space (91% site area)

• Two and three-level mixed-mode atriums

• Wellness centre

• End of trip facility for 580 bikes with 800 lockers and 52 showers with “Chill-Out” lounge

• Publicly accessible, retail activated and art curated laneway-link