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Morgan Consulting Engineers Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation and Success

March 5, 2023,

Morgan Consulting Engineers recently celebrated a half-century of success in the Civil and Structural engineering industry. The anniversary celebration was a night to remember, filled with laughter, great food, and good company. As the company enters its next 50 years, it remains committed to providing innovative engineering solutions to clients and making a positive impact in the industry. The Triffid was host for nearly 200 guests to come together to commemorate the company’s achievements and milestones over the past 50 years.

Robert Morgan, (company founder and director) took the stage to deliver an emotional speech that reflected on the company’s journey and his wonder at how the company has grown. He expressed his confidence in James Thomas and Henry Morgan working with the emerging management team to take the company to even greater heights over the next half century.

James Thomas, (company director) highlighted the company’s successes, sharing photos and recounting stories from some of the memorable projects that Morgan Consulting Engineers has completed over the years and marvelling at how the industry and company have evolved.

Henry Morgan, (company director) thanked everyone for their presence and support, and for helping to make the 50th anniversary celebration a truly memorable event. The evening was a testament to the strong relationships that Morgan Consulting Engineers has built over the years, and the company is grateful to all its employees, clients, and supporters for their contributions to its success.

The Triffid provided delicious food, drinks and entertainment for all ages, which helped to create a relaxed and festive atmosphere. The celebration provided a unique opportunity for networking and catching up with old and new clients and friends, and for Morgan Consulting Engineers to show appreciation to the people who have been instrumental in the company’s success.

Morgan Consulting Engineers Delivers Followmonts New Distribution Centre

August 27, 2020,

This distribution warehouse is located in Woree with easy access to Cairns and northern Queensland.  The main warehouse boasts a floor space of 2,700m2 with an additional 280m2 workshop for servicing the transportation vehicles. A 32-bay car park was also constructed for employee and customer parking.

The site was originally 5 lots which required a modification to the existing industrial subdivision to create 2 new lots and secure the services for the future warehouse development. A drainage system was designed to capture the roof and hardstand runoff and direct it to the multiple property connections made available by the original subdivision.

Construction during the northern wet season was challenging. The foundation system used, readily allowed for adjustments to the design based on the soil conditions, minimising the effect of the high rainfall on construction costs and program.

The warehouse structure is a portal frame steel structure with a 10m awning. The workshop has tilt up panel walls with a braced roof structure. To account for cyclonic wind loads and the long roof spans several roof framing options were analysed to determine the most cost-effective solution. In this case additional columns were installed through the centre of the warehouse to minimise the effects of these loads. We are proud to have worked with Bootooloo Property, Sparc Architects and Followmont Transport on this project.

Delightful Residential Development in Clayfield

July 12, 2020,

20-22 Victoria Parade, Clayfield

This delightful residential building contains a total of 8 luxury 3-bedroom apartments over 4 storeys. These luxurious spaces boast home-sized living areas, uncompromising quality and the finest fit-outs. Each unit has large balconies with fantastic views 3 of which offer amazing south facing city views. A vehicle elevator has been designed to allow easy vehicle access from the ground level to the basement level parking without compromising parking space.

An upgraded water and sewer connection was designed to service this multi-unit development. All design and construction supervision was completed in accordance with the SEQ Water and Sewer Guidelines under the Minor Works Endorsed Consultants scheme with Queensland Urban Utilities.

The basement retaining walls were constructed using a Dincel wall system for efficient construction and effective water proofing. The basement excavation was completed using temporary retention piles to protect the neighbouring properties and allow excavation. Efficient use of high strength concrete core filling allowed the lower levels to be constructed with blockwork reducing the overall construction cost.

We are proud to have worked with HAL Architects, Constructions Group and Holm Developments on this project.

Boutique Mixed Use Development in South Brisbane

October 24, 2019,

33 Browning Street, South Brisbane

Located close to the vibrant neighbourhood of West End, this brand-new 4 level development features 15 two-bedroom apartments each boasting a spacious private balcony. The communal roof top terrace has a shared barbecue and outdoor living space perfect for taking in the views.

The ground floor hosts a commercial space as well as two apartments. The apartments on floors three and four are larger and have extensive outdoor areas ideal for alfresco entertaining. The balconies on the eastern and western sides have architectural corner V columns to provide unobstructed views.

The build, completed in May 2019, used retention piers and shotcrete concrete for the temporary basement excavation. This basement excavation proved challenging, with insufficient space under the ramp area for the boundary retention piers. To overcome this challenge the bulky piers were eliminated by installing a steel spreader beam below the capping beam and propping it to the footings.

Wider columns were used in the commercial area as a cost-effective method of achieving the increased required fire rating requirements. The blockwork party walls were strengthened with high strength concrete core filling to create cost-effective load bearing walls.

The project used around 1750 cubic metres of concrete and approximately 235 tons in steel. The overall project cost was $7 million.

We are proud to have worked with Constructions Group and Leith Architects on this project.

 

O3 Ozone residential development in northwest Brisbane

March 19, 2019,

3 Osborne Road, Mitchelton

This brand-new residential development in Brisbane’s Mitchelton contains twenty apartments, all with two bedrooms, split across six storeys. With overall dimensions of 50x18m, the property also has a communal recreation area on level five and carparks on the ground floor. A small ‘hole-in-the-wall’ commercial tenancy is located at the front of the building.

Using the whole property footprint, the ground floor has a 1:20 ramp towards the rear of the building. Along the north and south boundaries, retaining walls up to 1.2 metres high were used. On the eastern boundary, the walls are set back four metres where the ground floor level is higher than the natural ground.

A development application condition placed by the Brisbane City Council required the building to be set back three metres from the north and south boundaries. However, approval was granted for some vertical supporting elements along the boundary. One metre wide strips of the Level 1 transfer slab acted as beams to bridge the carparks to the boundaries. For the upper levels, masonry block walls were selected as the main load bearing elements due to their strength and cost-effectiveness.

Screw piles were selected for the footing system to achieve a rapid and cost effective solution for founding through existing fill and soft alluvial sandy clay soils.

The project used around 10,000 cubic metres of concrete and approximately 500 tons in steel. The overall project cost was $5 million.

We are proud to have collaborated with Wiltshire Stevens Architecture and Constructions Group on this project, which was completed in January 2018.

Charming Two Storey in Prime Location

October 12, 2018,

Construction has finished on this 3 bed 2.5 bath home on a 544m2 lot in the beautiful Brisbane suburb of Norman Park. The project involved the removal of the existing single storey residence and construction of a new two storey residence perched just 50m from the Brisbane River.

Morgan Consulting Engineers became involved in this project in August 2017 to provide residential soil testing services and design of a cost effective footing and slab system.

Shallow local underground services and deep filling across a portion of the site posed a significant problem for the project timeframes and budgets. Working closely with the builder and the clients during the design and construction allowed us to use a combination of shallow concrete piers and deeper screw pile foundations to keep the project moving.

The slab-on-ground was constructed using a ‘waffle raft’ style slab to reduce the cost of footing excavation and reduce the volume of concrete used. The two-storey timber framed residence was constructed on top of the slab with Morgan Consulting Engineers involved in site works throughout the project.

Concord takes Highset Home to New Level

June 4, 2018,

Construction is well underway at the Concord Apartments, Jimmac’s exciting new mixed-use development in Stuart Street, in the heart of Bulimba’s Oxford Street precinct.

The site was previously occupied by a highset Queenslander that was required to be retained on the site and is being renovated as part of the new development. One of the challenges for builders, Constructions Group, and Morgan Consulting Engineers, was to allow the excavation and construction of the basement carpark, which is built from boundary to boundary, directly below the original house.

In a complex multi-stage process, the house was moved onto a series of sacrificial cantilever CFA piles and steel posts, suspending it well above ground level to allow excavation and construction of the basement and entry ramps. Using the temporary house removalists support beams for vertical support and the CFA basement retention piles for bracing and stability the house is now safely suspended over the worksite.

With an impressive 10m total “stump” height, this soon to be beautiful old Queenslander sits dominant over the site while work goes on around and below. The ground floor, which acts as the foundation for the house, will be poured and the sacrificial piles and posts will be removed. The house will then be lowered into its final position, ready for the renovations.

Peak Apartments a top project

May 2, 2018,

Morgan Consulting Engineers provided structural and civil engineering services for this modern high rise multi-use building in Vulture Street, South Brisbane. The building consists of 46 spacious apartments, a luxury boutique hotel with 134 rooms, a pool, a gym and a generous three-level basement carpark.

Basement retaining walls were constructed using “Dincel” concrete walls. Precast concrete blade columns were chosen as main supporting elements for the structure above the level 1 transfer floor to expedite construction. The entry feature “V” shaped tapered column was cleverly designed to support the swimming pool which was integated into the transfer floor. With multiple changes in layout on various floors, the challenge was to minimise the transfer effect of these layout changes on the structure. We successfully worked with the design team and builders to create a highly optimised structure.

Our client for this project was Constructions Group as a design and construct collaboration. The architect was Husband Architects and HORAN Group were the developer. The total cost of the project was $47 million dollars, with the project being completed at the end of 2016.

Celebrating 45 Years

November 24, 2017,

Morgan Consulting Engineers recently celebrated 45 years as consulting engineers. The night consisted of many steins of beer and great food provided by Newstead Brewing Co.

James Thomas (company director) was the first kick off the speeches highlighting the successes of MCE and the many projects that have been completed over the years. Robert Morgan (company founder & director) was the next to give a fantastic speech highlighting the company diversity and progression over the recent years. He also expressed his confidence in handing over the business to James Thomas and Henry Morgan. Henry Morgan (company director) wrapped up the speeches by thanking everyone for taking the time out of their busy schedules to help us celebrate this milestone in our company’s history.

We would like to thank Newstead Brewing Co for putting on a great spread and for keeping the beer flowing.

We would mostly like to thank all of our guests who made it to the function to help us celebrate. For those who were unable to attend, you where sorely missed and we hope you can make the next MCE function.

Morgan Consulting Engineers helps serve up beverage distribution warehouse

June 22, 2017,

This warehouse is located on the corner of Tradecoast Drive and Clyde Gessel Place, Eagle Farm at TradeCoast Central with overall dimensions of 344m by 104m and features awnings up to 15m wide on both sides of the building. Preliminary design was done in 2011, but did not go ahead due to various reasons. In mid-2016 we were asked to proceed with the detail design and documentation. The initial design was undertaken as a portal framed steel building, however the design was changed to a tilt-up concrete panel building with a braced roof. This allowed the contractor to expedite the construction and reduce project costs.

The final design utilised 200mm thick tilt-up concrete panels with a steel panel support in the roof and 3 internal rows of columns supporting girder beams which run parallel to the length of the building. Rafter spacing of 11.2m and purlin spacing of up to 1700mm was adopted to minimise the number of purlins and optimise the sheeting spans. The 344m length of the building created a challenge for the bracing of the structure. The bracing requirements were coordinated with the pallet racking layout to achieve bracing with no impact on the usage of the building floor.

The total quantity of concrete used for the warehouse slab and panels is around 10,000 cubic metres. The total quantity of steel used in the structure is around 500 tons. The overall project cost is about $22 million.

Our client for this project is TradeCoast Central, the architect is SPARC and it has been built by the construction company McNab Constructions. Construction was completed in June 2017.

 



Contact us for more information

Morgan Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd
1 Great George Street
PADDINGTON QLD 4064
t: 07 3369 8411
f: 07 3369 1893
e: mail@morgance.com.au