AUT Millennium Aquatic Centre Feature Facade

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To create an massive decorative pipe façade with clear polythene inflated cladding for the outside of the new AUT Millennium Aquatic Centre.

Challenges:

This was one of the most challenging fabrication jobs we have undertaken. The structure was fabricated full size (at 30m x 14m x 5m high) and took up an entire fabrication bay at our HQ. It was then broken down into 8 very awkward truck loads for coating and transport to site.

Every intersection of pipes had 20mm strengthening plates inserted in both directions and were full strength butt-welded and tested.

Facts & figures:

There are over 300 strategically positioned fittings on the structure to carry the cladding system.

It needed over 350 metres of Ø150mm scheduled pipe and 50 full-strength plated connections.

It has over 50 internally bolted splice connections with access holes that were capped and sealed after assembly. It took over 1600 fabrication hours.

Structural Steelwork