Frasers and Sekisui House's One Central Park in Sydney gets Australia's first rooftop heliostat
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In an Australian-first engineering feat, Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia have elevated a 110-tonne steel frame 100 metres in the air, successfully attaching it to the One Central Park apartment block on Sydney’s Broadway.
It is considered the most complex part of the construction process in building Australia’s first residential heliostat. Frasers Property Australia chief Guy Pahor says the joint venture partners are delighted builder Watpac was up to the the "highly challenging engineering and construction task".
He said it had been 30 months in the making.
When the cantilever is completed, the residents of Sky at One Central Park will have access to the sky garden with outdoor dining and a plunge pool.
Underneath its 3,000 coloured LED lights will become an eye-catching piece of public art at night, illuminating the residential towers with a light display designed by French lighting artist Yann Kersale.
With the reflector frame now in place, the next complex task requires 320 large mirrored panels to be affixed to the enormous reflector frame.
The Sky apartments comprise 38 penthouse and sub-penthouse apartments, ranging in size from 120 square metre to 200 square metres for the two bedroom offerings and 190 square metres for a dual-level, three-bedroom penthouse.
Construction completion is expected in late 2013.
