Our projects
The Cobar Ward Oval Pavilion is a multipurpose hall part of the Cobar Ward Precinct Masterplan, designed by DunnHillam Architects to significantly enhance communal facilities located within the precinct.
The single-storey building is located centrally on the northern edge of the existing sports oval, and features a large, flexible multipurpose hall, a commercial kitchen, bar, canteen, public bathrooms and change rooms suitable for hosting various sports and community events. Designed to reflect the scale and charm of Cobar, it brings the community together by providing a venue for the annual Cobar Show and various sports and community events throughout the year from little athletics to regional conferences.
This project involved the adaptive re-use of the heritage The Gunnery building for Artspace, providing a completely revitalised multi-platform contemporary art centre. The transformed facility will support the function of Artspace as one of the leading institutions for the production and presentation of contemporary art in the Asia Pacific. All three floors of The Gunnery building were carefully restored to deliver expanded gallery spaces over three floors, a sound-proofed 250sqm multipurpose performance space, an accessible archive, offices, resident artist studios, and new facilities for learning, performance and public programs. JHA provided multidisciplinary building services for this project. Images: Artspace
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JHA was part of the project team that recently delivered the new contemporary pavilion and grandstand at Allan Border Oval for Mosman Council.
This project involved replacing the existing outdated facility with a new 2-storey pavilion building and grandstand equipped with inclusive and accessible public amenities, function areas, canteen, and outdoor BBQ facilities to act as a modern sporting venue for the local community.
Chatswood RSL is the premier club on the Sydney Lower North Shore, providing entertainment and dining for over 25,000 members. A longstanding collaborator, JHA recently delivered specialist lighting, electrical, and audio-visual consultancy services for the club’s refurbishment, encompassing the reception and foyer, pizza bar and bistro, Dim Joy House, and Yogi’s Sports bar.
The Chaucer Residence is a striking example of aspirational modern living within a vibrant inner city suburban community. JHA provided Hydraulic & Civic/Stormwater services for this architecturally designed renovation and extension of the Federation home in St Kilda. The diversity of spaces and accommodation of extensive and complex programmes required a meticulous approach to detail and layout of the services.
The Quandamooka Arts and Cultural Centre – known as QUAMPI will be a new contemporary arts & cultural museum and performance institute focussing on the culture and heritage of the Quandamooka People. Ancient Quandamooka artefacts and contemporary art from Quandamooka and other First Nations artists and invited International First Nations artists will be showcased. QUAMPI will also be the home of the Quandamooka Festival and host Indigenous food tours and dining experiences, art markets, art tours and art-making workshops. JHA is delivering mechanical, electrical, audio visual and ESD services for this project, keeping in mind the venue’s varied innovative and flexible technology requirements, as well as environmental factors such as the close proximity to the sea and sand. Working closely with the architectural team and local suppliers, JHA designed specialist mechanical environmental control air conditioning for the museum and art gallery. Heavy consultation around security access control including CCTV took place, to ensure that the design was able to respond to the many modes of operation and access to promote safety of people, artworks and the broader facility. JHA
Edmondson Park Public School is a new purpose-built facility for School Infrastructure NSW (SINSW) that will accommodate up to 1,000 primary school students and 40 preschool students. The school is one of the very first public schools in Australia to achieve a 6-Star Green Star rating. JHA provided multidisciplinary engineering services for the world-class new school. JHA
The largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken by the ACT government, the Canberra Hospital Expansion project deliverd a new eight-storey Critical Services Building on the Canberra Hospital campus. The new CSB is the first fully-electric hospital building in Australia. The project will provide increased healthcare services for Canberra Hospital’s adult intensive care, paediatric intensive care, surgical, coronary care and emergency services with additional operating rooms, treatment spaces and intensive care beds. JHA provided electrical, audio visual, security & vertical transport consultancy under an ECI/peer review role for this landmark project. JHA
185 Wharf Street is a 36 storey premium grade residential tower project, being developed by Cbus Property. The project features a mixed of generously sized 2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments coupled with communal facilities such a WFH Room, Lounge, Spa, Sauna, Gym, and Private Dining areas. JHA is undertaking the mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, fire, vertical transport, and high voltage services for this landmark project. JHA
New K-12 school on a greenfield site in Edmondson Park for the Catholic Education Diocese of Wollongong, which is being built over several stages. JHA has been involved since the inception of this project, from the masterplanning and temporary school, to the staged delivery of permanent buildings including Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), Science Technologies, PDHPE multipurpose hall, Innovation Centre, Middle Block, Administration, Junior Block, Library, and Senior Block. Designed by JDH Architects and showcasing a seamless flow between the interior and exterior spaces, the state-of-the-art school will provide a high-quality learning environment for students in the local community. Images: JDH Architects. JHA
Located in Chatswood CBD at 763-769 Pacific Highway, Chatswood, Novus on Albert will be a 27-storey purpose-designed build-to-rent tower consisting of circa 198 premium apartments, basement car parking, ground floor retail tenancies and communal amenities. JHA has been engaged by Novus to provide multidisciplinary building services for this project, which is targeting 7-star NatHERS rating and 5-star Green Star certification. JHA
JHA collaborated with Davies Climate Control, Hutchinson Builders and Cottee Parker Architects to deliver Pillow Talk Australia`s new head office and warehouse in Darra, Queensland.
With exposed ceiling design to showcase the 1 MWR air conditioning systems throughout the building, this state-of-the-art complex provides Pillow Talk with a purpose designed ‘home away from home’ for their team.
Working alongside Davies Climate Control, JHA delivered mechanical services for the project, ensuring the mechanical systems were designed and coordinated to seamlessly blend into the space, while highlighting architectural features.
Engaged by Dunn & Hillam Architects, JHA provided multidisciplinary building services for this award-winning restoration project that completely revived the rundown heritage building into a culturally significant museum that explores the history of the mining town of Cobar. The museum seamlessly integrates indoor and outdoor spaces with the exhibition starting outside along the new accessible entry ramp, through the building’s nine ground-floor rooms, and out into the landscaped outdoor space. Sitting atop on the first floor is flexible space mainly used for archived material. Images: Dunn & Hillam Architects. JHA
The Meriton Pagewood project is a large precinct development comprising of multiple high-rise residential towers in the masterplanned Pagewood community. The build-to-rent towers (Centro Miro, Centro Uccello, Green Marigold, Green Orchid, Green Viola) include premium features such as oversized internal layouts, resort-style pools, rooftop and podium gardens, gym and saunas, as well as EV charging bays in the Pagewood Green Orchid building. JHA is delivering the high voltage network private HV design for the entire precinct, inclusive of:
Masterplanning for a new seven-lot subdivision including public roads
Provision of substation spatial options for seven different buildings all through a single HV switchroom for the precinct
Detailed private HV design (suitable for Tender)
Construction & Procurement support.
Adaptive fitout of an existing commercial building into a new headquarters/ centralised operations centre for NSW Ambulance. The new operations centre integrates critical emergency operations facilities including the Triple Zero (000) call centre, Sydney Control Centre, Ambulance Emergency Operations Centre, Aeromedical Control Centre, and Virtual Clinical Care Centre. The facility will also provide contemporary corporate, education and training spaces. As one of the state’s most critical pieces of infrastructure, redundancy had to be baked in - not an afterthought. JHA undertook numerous workshops with the client to realise integrated, redundant design across all sectors of the building, proposing challenging situations and nominating passive cabling solutions considerate of the unique requirements of 24/7 emergency workers. JHA
New sustainable, modern and purpose-built hospital to support the growing needs of the Eurobodalla Shire from Narooma to Batemans Bay. The new regional hospital will provide world-class health services equipped with the latest technology, as well as enhanced education and training facilities including a simulation lab. JHA has been engaged by Multiplex to undertake a peer review role of the mechanical, electrical, VT, ICT, high voltage and ESD documentation. JHA
The new Acute Services Building will be built on a partial brownfield site north of the existing campus and consist of approximately 6,000m2 of new clinical space. The facilities include emergency, medical imaging, pharmacy, mortuary, and day surgery departments, along with 46 in-patient bedrooms split into 2x IPUs and integration with the existing building. JHA is providing multidisciplinary consultancy including electrical, ICT, audio visual, high voltage, mechanical, medical gasses, acoustic, ESD (Section J), vertical transport, hydraulic and fire services. JHA
JHA has been engaged by Fredon as the high voltage consultant for the private HV network on the landmark Queen’s Wharf site. The Queen’s Wharf Integrated Resort development is a $3.6b tourism precinct project which will provide world-class public spaces (exceeding the size of 12 football fields), a signature Arc building with a sky deck, restaurants and bars, a moonlight cinema, high-end retail precincts, four new luxury hotels, two residential towers, approximately 50 new dining, world-class gaming facilities, and restored heritage buildings. The expansive mixed-use site has a total maximum demand exceeding 15MVA. JHA has successfully delivered construction design and commissioning support for high voltage and SCADA systems. This includes the integration of five 11kV feeders from Energex, two intake switching stations, and seven custom multi-transformer substations. The design work encompassed all substation spatial designs, earthing design, HV cable reticulation design, Arc flash reports and protection studies. Additionally, JHA coordinated with Energex for the incoming line differential protection and associated Intake switching station requirements. JHA
JHA collaborated with UNSW, MCA architects and the wider project team to transform a former commercial building into an innovative library in Block D of the University’s Paddington Arts & Design precinct. This project involved significant refurbishment and services upgrades to provide a contemporary library equipped with collaborative workstations, individual and group study spaces, consultation pods, meeting rooms with AV technology, staff room, lunch room and kitchen. The project also included the new landscaped courtyard and exterior awning structure cladded with aluminium battens JHA
JHA collaborated with UNSW and MCA architects to deliver a state-of-the-art teaching classroom equipped with sophisticated and modern audio-visual systems at the university’s J17 Building. The space is designed in such a fashion to enable the lecturers to conduct remote classes with cutting-edge technology, allowing students from around the world to attend lectures and actively participate in discussions with the lecturer. Lighting in this project was not only designed for aesthetics but also integrated with the AV system to provide a suitable space for presentations. The AV system’s primary objective which was to create an engaging virtual classroom was accomplished with an advanced design utilising the most modern engineering solutions and innovation. JHA
JHA provided electrical and ICT consultancy for the new world-class Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Precinct for Brisbane Grammar School. This award-winning facility spans over 16,000m2 and features a 300-seat auditorium and exhibition space, a central atrium, uniquely flexible learning areas that allow teachers to combine up to five classrooms into a single space, design hubs for student collaboration, specialised dissection laboratory and protyping spaces. JHA’s approach to the lighting design was carefully considered, to align with the project’s key principles - to provide flexible and innovative learning areas that work at both human scale and in context of the expansive open space. Architecture MasterPrize 2024 Awards- Educational Buildings Award AIA QLD 2024 Awards - Jennifer Taylor Award for Educational Architecture AIA QLD 2024 Awards - Commendation for Interior Architecture JHA
The Northern Rivers Schools project involves the construction of new flood-resilient schools in the Northern Rivers and North Coast region in NSW to replace damaged buildings from the 2022 floods. This project utilises modular construction techniques to fast-track the rebuilding process and provide improved educational facilities for the local community. To increase flood resistance and create useable undercroft spaces, the floor levels of the new schools are elevated above the design flood level. JHA has been engaged to provide electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and vertical transport services for Empire Vale Public School, Blakebrook Public School, Broadwater Public School and Wardell Public School. JHA
New 118-bed residential aged care facility in St Ives including a dementia care wing, basement carpark, and premium living amenities such as a community cafe, communal lounge room, indoor and outdoor lifestyle areas, gymnasium, hairdressing salon, nail bar and an on-site wellness centre which is also open to the public. The modern 7,067sqm facility provides a variety of room types to suit tailored care services such as short-term respite, long-term residential care, re-ablement, and dementia care, with some rooms featuring balconies and direct access to the landscaped courtyards. JHA provided multidisciplinary building services for the new development. Images: Taylor. JHA
New 6-storey development in Brisbane’s inner-west, featuring a 116-bed residential aged care facility on the lower floors, and 35 ILUs on the upper floors. The contemporary facility has been designed with hotel-style amenities such as the beauty salon, many spacious lounges, a sky terrace, as well as a commercial kitchen, laundry, carpark and back-of-house spaces. JHA provided mechanical, electrical, ESD and vertical transport services for this project. JHA
The St Marcellin Centre is a new, multi-level primary precinct featuring flexible teaching spaces, modern technology, open-learning classrooms connected by verandas and outdoor learning areas. JHA delivered electrical, mechanical, ESD and vertical transport services for this project. Particular attention was paid to the lighting design, in particular the communal podium level. Under the guidance of Phorm Architecture & Design, JHA was inspired by the College’s pursuit of a learning environment and delivered specialist lighting design that honour these values wherever possible. ‘Celebrate the concrete’ is one of the key design strategies used, utilising the fine concrete surfaces to diffuse light. JHA
Continuing on from JHA’s earlier involvement on the Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College site to provide masterplanning and assessment of existing infrastructure, JHA was engaged to provide building services for the new Scientia Terrace building. Designed by Hayball, the six-storey Scientia Terrace features specialised science laboratories, a rooftop multipurpose sports court, indoor sports courts, a gymnasium, outdoor running track, PDHPE learning spaces, a dedicated social enterprise and innovation hub, flexible learning spaces, open green spaces and an underground carpark. The new facility is established around a new circular lawn that connects to other heritage buildings within the campus JHA
Located in TAFE Queensland’s Bohle campus, this project saw the construction of a main hydrogen and renewable energy training facility, an advanced manufacturing skills lab, and a separate electric vehicle workshop. Additionally, the project included the development of a new car park and the refurbishment of existing classrooms. JHA was involved in supporting the construction team to compile credits for the project’s 5 star Green Star Buildings certification. JHA developed a comprehensive social procurement plan, gathered and documented evidence of community engagement and ensured thorough compilation of procurement and investment efforts focused on disadvantaged groups. Images: Paynters JHA
The Rhodes Central Stage 2 project comprises of over 670 residential apartments across two high-rise buildings – Peake Tower and Oasis, basement car parking, as well as an integrated fitout of the new 9,100sqm multipurpose community recreation and childcare centre located in the precinct’s three-level podium. JHA is delivering mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, fire, high voltage, civil, ESD, vertical transport, audio visual and ICT consultancy, including the design of an Integrated Communications Network for the recreation and leisure centre. The Smart Buildings scope of this project encompassed design of an Integrated Communications Network (ICN) for the recreation and leisure centre, integrating council requirements with a comprehensive audio visual system; and an integrated ticketing and real-time parking management system.
Alumni Park is a recreation and gathering space located on UNSW’s western Kensington campus. This project involved the revitalisation of Alumni Park to provide new recreational outdoor facilities suitable for hosting events, performances, club and social activities. The enhanced landscape includes native plants and tree species along with integrated local indigenous artwork. JHA provided specialist lighting and electrical design works associated with the refurbishment, as well as an integrated lighting solution within the feature wooden bleachers. JHA
Master planning and assessment of existing infrastructure to facilitate the 2050 masterplan vision for the Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College site. The first phase of the masterplan included major campus infrastructure re-diversion works for ICT Fibre, New HV and LV infrastructure and a new Science and Sports Building /Hub, spanning over four storeys plus a roof top court including basement car parking with access from Miller Street. The phase 1 works encompassed the following: New main campus site switchboard to cater for the southern precinct masterplan works; ICT Fibre re-diversion and new master planning pit and pipe infrastructure; New Science and Sports Building/Hub (Scientia Terrace). JHA