Ecologically sound

From the bottom up, this Sydney office building has been designed and constructed with care for the environment in mind

Office meeting room with striped couches and cane ceiling, interior design, lighting, lobby, brown — Office meeting room with striped couches and cane reclining chairs, yellow toned carpet, and red retractable wall and glass door.

W ith increased demand for workplace flexibility and diminishing construction content, rooms need to be adaptable for alternative uses and to accommodate large and small meetings. Whittaker Hadenham Openshaw (WHO) achieved this in the meeting areas of 30 The Bond by installing Rintoul operable walls.

In keeping with Bovis Lend Lease's desire to use environmentally friendly materials, WHO chose natural, reconstituted cork products for the finished cladding. This also achieved another key design element the need for surfaces suitable for pinning materials onto.

The Level 9 operable wall featured on this page is a mixture of the Variflex solid operable wall and a Varitans pivoted glass door.

Rintoul overcame the challenge of using two different track and trolley systems by adapting the glass operable wall suspension to accept the solid operable wall trolley. This enables the glass door to travel along the solid operable wall track into the stacking bay.

For more information, contact Rintoul, 26 Powers Rd, Seven Hills, NSW 2147, phone (02) 9624 5333, fax (02) 9838 8408. Website: www.rintoul.com.au.

Story by: Trendsideas

23 Aug, 2004

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