Project overview:

• Location: UWA Crawley campus
• Works completed: November 2016
• Architect: Ferguson Architects
• Project Manager: James Wun, Project Manager Engineering Services, Campus Management and Western Australian Electric Power Services

This project involved replacing and relocating the UWA Crawley campus intake substation due to an ageing switchgear. The new substation has three dedicated feeders to the campus mitigating risks of single point of power supply.

• Smaller footprint from 1500 to 200 square meters
• Three dedicated feeders from QEII substation
• New state of the art switchgear meeting industry and Australian Standards
• Provide safer environment to operate the HV switchgears.

The purpose built facility - known as the Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, has been constructed at the UWA Crawley campus.

Major refurbishments were also undertaken at the existing Department of Fisheries' marine centre approximately 24kms from Crawley, now also know as the Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Watermans Bay.

• Location: UWA Crawley campus
• Works completed: October 2016
• Architect: Ferguson Architects
• Project value: $62m
• Project Manager: Chris Binks, Manager Capital Projects Campus Management

The lobby of the Physics Building underwent a refurbishment that has created an improved, accessible, light and bright space.

• Location: Physics Building, Crawley campus
• Works completed: October 2016

The refurbishment works included:

• Relocating accessibility ramp
• Installing handrails and tactile flooring (to improve building accessibility)
• Office demolition
• Painting
• Lighting and signage upgrade
• New central automatic-door
• New seating furniture

The School of Sport Science's Human Movement pool has been an important part of UWA since it opened in 1991. The five-lane, 25-metre pool has undergone a facelift with works including removing the tiles and plaster right back to the original concrete structure.

The refurbishment of the pool included concrete repair works, tiling the entire pool, waterproofing of the pool gutters, new gutter grates and new stainless steel ladder.

• Location: Human Movement - School of Sports Science, Crawley campus
• Works completed: September 2016

The Reid Library refurbishment program was one of UWAs most innovative and exciting refurbishment projects-to-date, with one of the busiest student buildings undergoing a major facelift.

• Location: Reid Library, Crawley Campus
• Architect: Schin Architects
• Works completed: September 2016

The Reid Library refurbishment project has transformed the ground-floor of the library with a state-of-the-art design, where it has become open and light and makes the most of its beautiful and central location on campus.

The number of student spaces for collaborative and informal learning has increased from 350 to 700. There has been improved access to wifi, power points and locker space, increased and upgraded bathrooms and the new Quobba Gnarning café.

Other highlights of the refurbishment include:

• A new entrance off Saw Promenade
• A range of collaborative learning spaces to meet different learning styles
• A learning suite for interactive tutorial style teaching for up to 60 students which can also be booked and used by students when not being used for teaching
• Relocation of the resource room from the first-floor to the ground-floor of the library to improve accessibility
• A dedicated space for WriteSmart (a daily help service for students delivered collaboratively by Student Services and the library)
• Full refurbishment including new furniture, carpet and paint.

Campus Management undertook an audit of more than 500 rooms (approximately 10 per cent) across the Crawley campus.

The audit was undertaken between April to July with representatives from consultants Hames Sharley who accessed a number of buildings – from lecture and seminar rooms to laboratory and instrument rooms – to record the rooms’ usage, function and condition. 

The audit provided useful information to assist Campus Management in planning, developing and managing the University’s estate and property portfolio and ultimately meet the needs of current and future students, staff and the community.  

• Location: Crawley campus
• Consultants: Hames Sharley
• Works completed: July 2016
• Project Manager: Denyse McCulloch, Project Manager Design, Campus Management

Campus Management oversaw the refurbishment of The University Club Restaurant and Lounge Bar. The result of the refurbishment is a more open, fresh and contemporary space for members and their guests.

• Location: University Club of Western Australia, Crawley campus
• Architect: spaceagency: architects
• Works completed: February 2016

The refurbishment included:

• relocation and refurbishment of the lounge bar to a more central position
• fitting of new dining furniture
• installation of new carpets and window treatments
• painting of internal walls.