Residential
Residential projects challenge life safety objectives greatly, with higher fire and fatality statistics than any other building type. Design objectives often compete with the Building Code’s fire safety requirements to achieve effective use of floor space and architectural aesthetics and to allow other Building Code requirements to be met within a limited space. Affinity has developed many Performance Solutions addressing egress conditions, fire compartmentation proximity to boundaries and even atria in residential developments, including apartments, serviced apartments and hotels.
IVANHOE ESTATE, MACQUARIE PARK NSW
Midtown A1 Mac Residences is part of a larger development of the former Ivanhoe Estate. It consists of a residential tower that incorporates a childcare, loading dock and associated carparking facility. Affinity provided fire safety engineering advice for the project ensuring that is a safe and amenable building for its future tenants.
Developer: Frasers Property
Architect: Bates Smart Architects
Builder: Parkview Constructions
PETERSHAM RSL, NSW
The Petersham RSL development features 8 levels of residential apartments situated above the new locality of Petersham RSL. The project involved challenges from a fire safety perspective in ensuring that occupants within the residential tenancy are protected from the fire and egress hazards presented by the RSL club. Affinity provided a comprehensive solution to ensure a harmonious coexistence between both use cases of the building.
Developer: Deicorp
Architect: Candalepas Associates
Builder: Deicorp
KEW RESIDENCES, SCHOFIELDS NSW
Situated in one of Sydney’s new suburbs, Kew Schofields contains 137 modern apartments and a basement car park. Affinity Fire Engineering undertook a fire performance-based solution for the extension of the two additional residential towers to the existing Building A and the underground car parking. The Affinity team has completed detailed assessments in order to provide fire safety to the occupants and the property.
Developer: Positive Investment Enterprise
Architect: PBD Architects
Builder: Binah Constructions
THE CIVIC, WOLLONGONG NSW
77 Kembla Street features a luxury complex of apartments with communal pool and gardens located close to the coast. The Civic is one of new centrepieces of Wollongong presented a challenge for the fire engineering team. The high-rise development necessitated the fire engineering performance-based solutions to provideand detailed assessments for occupant egress, fire brigade intervention and structural, mechanical, and hydraulic engineering design.
Developer: City Investments Pty Ltd
Architect: ADM Architects
THECLA TOWERS, DAPTO NSW
This development will be the Dapto’s first high-rise apartment building with 8 levels and 2 blocks. Affinity Fire Engineering developed the performance-based Fire Safety Engineering solutions to provide a cost effective, low risk and flexible design including the rationalising of fire ratings, occupant egress, fire brigade intervention and smoke hazard management systems.
Developer: Escarpment View Apartments
Architect: ADM Architects
ANCORA APARTMENTS, SHELL COVE NSW
Ancora features 64 apartments above a basement-level car park. It was a pleasure to be a part of this project and bring our extensive experience in emergency management, fire design redundancy, long-term management in use strategies, required egress pathways and requirements for fire brigade intervention in such buildings.
Developer: Frasers Property
Architect: WMK Architecture
Builder: Parkview Constructions
NAUTILUS APARTMENTS, SHELL COVE NSW
This apartment complex, which includes 116 apartments and two levels of underground parking, was awarded the National Design Excellence award. Affinity assisted the project team in delivering the final luxury finish of these harbour front apartments without adversely affecting the occupants' fire safety.
Developer: Frasers Property
Architect: Smart Design Studio
Builder: Parkview Constructions
PROXIMITY, ROUSE HILL NSW
The completed urban development has a lot of natural space and parklands. The site consists of six residential towers, several retail tenancies, and basement parking. The Affinity team worked closely with the project team to overcome the restraints imposed under the regulations/codes by developing an Alternative Solution to allow flexibility in design whilst maintaining the occupant and fire brigade life safety, and property protection.
Developer: Deicorp
Architect: Group GSA
Builder: Deicorp
RISE ON GIPPS, WOLLONGONG NSW
Rise on Gipps located minutes from the heart of Wollongong, this beautifully designed apartment complex offers relaxed luxury living with the convenience of vibrant city living. Offering highly coveted and breathtaking coastal views, this apartment complex contains 18 spacious apartments spanning across 9 storey's, and situated above 2 carparking levels, all within a kilometer of the beaches, the mall and local bike tracks. Affinity Fire Engineering provided the design team with the confidence of delivering a luxury finish without impacting the overall fire safety of the project.
Developer: Rise Property Group
Architect: ADM Architects
Builder: Rise Property Group
RISERVA, CAMMERAY NSW
Located in the Lower North Shore suburb of Cammeray, Riserva encompasses 20 spacious apartments providing everyday luxury for its residents, with basement carparking and communal spaces. Affinity Fire Engineering provided performance-based design solutions to assist the design team with delivering the open-plan, light-filled design of these apartments, whilst maintaining the fire safety to the occupants and the building.
Developer: DKO Architecture
Architect: Dynamic Projects
Builder: Peirce Property
ROYAL SHORES, ERMINGTON NSW
The Royal Shores development spanned an area of over 20,000m2 and 9 separate buildings to include 632 residential apartments. Situated along the Parramatta River the engineering strategy required detailed integration of fire and life safety provisions with potential river flooding risks. Through Affinity’s involvement the project deliverables were able to be realised and a unique stretch of family friendly apartments created to replace the previous industrial area of Parramatta River.
Developer: Sekisui House
Architect: HDR | Rice Daubney
Builder: Dasco
JEWEL, WENTWORTH POINT NSW
Jewel comprises three residential towers rising up from a ground floor retail podium, intersected by a through-site open shopping district that connects Wentworth Point to the Homebush Bay Ferry Wharf and Parramatta River waterfront. The development consists of multi-level carparking and a total of 256 boutique apartments. Affinity developed a fire engineering strategy that enabled the harmonised integration of the ground floor retail tenancies and childcare centre with the residential tower above to achieve a key centre piece of the Wentworth Point area.
Developer: Payce & Sekisui House
Architect: Stanisic Architects
Builder: Dasco
SOUTH VILLAGE, KIRRAWEE NSW
South Village is a mixed use residential and retail facility containing multi-storey carparking levels, a ground floor shopping centre spanning 300m of major and specialty tenancies, community centre, and 750 apartments over seven residential towers and 13 storeys. The large development is expansive and complex in nature, however with the involvement of Affinity the design was able to be realised in a cohesive outcome to create an entirely new neighbourhood.
Developer: Deicorp
Architect: Turner Architects
Builder: Deicorp
ONE MELROSE, MELROSE PARK NSW
The first completed stage of the Melrose Park North redevelopment includes 277 apartments across three sinuously curved residential buildings. Forming the primary entry to the Melrose Park North precinct, the development is unique with its integration with the sloping land. Receiving architectural awards in 2019 and 2020 for a Large Site, Gold Award Winner, and Residential Concept, Second Award Winner respectively.