{"id":20767,"date":"2015-09-08T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/projects\/swanston-academic-building\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:22:17","slug":"swanston-academic-building","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/projects\/swanston-academic-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanston Academic Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology\u2019s (RMIT) Swanston Academic Building (SAB), located in the heart of Melbourne\u2019s central business district, is home to the university\u2019s College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>Spanning 35000m2 across 11 levels and accommodating up to 10,000 students and 850 staff, the building creates a series of social and learning engagement spaces which help foster a new type of collegiate environment between academic staff and students, facilitating mentorship and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>AECOM provided mechanical, electrical (including communications and security), fire protection services, fire engineering, hydraulics, vertical transportation, audio visual and environmentally sustainable design on the $200 million world-class learning and teaching facility.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Lyons Architects, the building has achieved a 5 Star GreenStar Education V1 design rating, with environmental features including mixed mode ventilated student break out spaces, demand driven conditioning systems, and integration into the RMIT district chilled water system.<\/p>\n<p>AECOM services engineering team leader Shu-Hsin Soong said the SAB set a new benchmark in learning innovation. \u201cThis vertical campus further incorporates RMIT into Melbourne\u2019s urban fabric, providing a new model for integrating learning, social and retail spaces in response to the \u2018generation next\u2019 student experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Awards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Australian Construction Achievement Award<\/li>\n<li>Premier\u2019s Sustainability Award for Infrastructure and Buildings<\/li>\n<li>CBRE Property Development Award<\/li>\n<li>Property Council of Australia (PCA) Innovation &amp; Excellence Award\u2019s \u201cBest Public Building\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Partners: \u00a0Lyons Architects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20772,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[138],"class_list":["post-20767","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","city-melbourne"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/20767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/20767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20767"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=20767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}