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Intercapital Consultants

Phone: +61 412 038 547

Address: 18 Atlantic Place Beaumont Hills 2155

Website: http://www.intercapital.com.au

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25.01.2022 BUILDING TO BUSHFIRE AND BUILDING CODE STANDARDS When building in bushfire prone locations, your building will be assessed against the Planning For Bushfire Protection (PFBP) guide to establish a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) rating for the building, and for most other buildings they will be assessed against the requirements of the Building Code of Australia (BCA) and other Australian Standards. The prescriptive compliance measures of the PBP, BCA and Australian Standards are g...enerally quite onerous and costly as they are essentially a one size fits all set of requirements. However, both the PBP and the BCA makes allowance for Alternate Solutions (AS) which permits you to differ from the prescriptive requirements if you can demonstrate that your AS complies with the overarching performance requirements for protection against fire. Thus, with a sound knowledge of the PBP, BCA and Australian Standards coupled with the specific details of the proposed buildings uses and/or operations, the prescriptive compliance measures may be able to be significantly reduced. A recent example where Intercapital has been able to effect significant deviation from prescriptive compliance measures in bushfire prone location was in reducing the BAL rating for a recent sub-division/dwelling in Hornsby Shire from a Flame Zone (BAL-FZ) being the highest BAL rating adhering to the prescriptive requirements of the PFBP, to a BAL-29 (second lowest) rating using Fire Engineering from first principles. Had the BAL-FZ rating been adopted for the site, the sub-division itself would not have been approved in the first place. Another example of where Intercapital has been able to effect significant reductions in fire compliance measures for a building was for a 2 million litre capacity cooking oil storage and distribution facility at Huntingwood. Prescriptive fire compliance measures of the BCA and Australian Standards would have required extensive sprinklers for both the building and the storage tanks, as well as smoke extraction and both occupant and back to base warning systems.. Again, assessment of the fire risk using first principle fire engineering and building construction enabled the elimination of such fire compliance measures altogether with the concurrence of Fire and Rescue NSW. Its thus essential to engage experienced and knowledgeable consultants who have the ability to give you sound advice as to possible Alternate Solutions, and not just consultants who simply prepare plans in accordance with the prescriptive requirements of the relevant fire standards.

24.01.2022 Lifting Panels - Industrial factory upgrade Riverstone

23.01.2022 Cookers' 2 million litre capacity cooking oil warehouse storage and distribution facility at Huntingwood in full operation. By presentation of assessment of fire hazard by first principles we were able to demonstrate that many of the standard code requirements (Eg. sprinklers, exhaust fans) for fire protection were unnecessary, and were able to obtain concurrence with Fire+Rescue NSW.

23.01.2022 Lifting Panels - Industrial factory upgrade Riverstone : Stage 2

23.01.2022 South Windsor - factory units nearing completion

22.01.2022 10-Unit Apartment Development - Warriewood

21.01.2022 Austral - 183-unit apartmernt development

21.01.2022 Warriewood - 48-lot sub-division and development

21.01.2022 2 million litre capacity cooking oil warehouse at Huntingwood. Nearing completion.

19.01.2022 Quest apartments at Norwest. Intercapital prepared the DA application and managed the DA process through to approval. With justification, obtained 15% increase in the prescriptive floor space ratio requirements.

18.01.2022 2 million litre capacity cooking oil warehouse at Huntingwood. Tank installation and fitout

16.01.2022 2 million litre capacity bulk storage building for cooking oil at Huntingwood. Bulk Earthworks + Retaining walls completed.

13.01.2022 Shree Swaminarayan Temple in Kings Park

13.01.2022 2 million litre capacity bulk storage building for cooking oil at Huntingwood. Concrete tilt-up panels being lifted into place.

11.01.2022 2 million litre capacity bulk storage building for cooking oil at Huntingwood. Foundations and factory slab completed.

09.01.2022 2 million litre capacity bulk storage building for cooking oil at Huntingwood. Erection of structural steel.

06.01.2022 Factory fire 12 March 2020 at Fairfield Street Guildford --- As the architectural and structural designer of the factory building adjoining the one on fire, quite pleased to see the building behaved as designed with both fire lapping and neighbouring factory walls collapsing onto the external wall. Building and occupants protected and safe. https://www.facebook.com//live-fairfield/1090308834680686/

04.01.2022 Factory units Moorebank

03.01.2022 Factory Units - Caringbah : Architectural and structural design by Intercapital Consultants

03.01.2022 PART 3B COMPLYING DEVELOPMENT CODE : No Council area in NSW is now exempt from the application of Part 3B of the Exempt and Complying Development State Environmental Planning Policy (CDC). This part of the CDC permits approval without the need to lodge a development application (DA) with Council for all types of medium density development and be sub-divided if it complies with all the requirements of the CDC. Terrace housing, manor housing, group homes, townhouses, attached and detached dual occupancy dwellings and other forms of residential dwellings (but not residential flats) are encompassed by this part. Call for advice as to whether your property can be developed and or sub-divided by CDC.

03.01.2022 Facility Commissioning to commence next week. About 2 weeks from completion and fully operational.

03.01.2022 2 million litre capacity bulk storage building for cooking oil at Huntingwood. Building is now freestanding.

02.01.2022 DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS IN NSW - TIPS FOR A FASTER APPROVAL The legislated process towards approval of a Development Application (DA) in NSW, is widely regarded and accepted as being most laborious. Delays in DA approval are costly, not only for the applicant and local Councils, but also for the community and economy. Depending on the type of development subject to the DA, the following are some "quick tips" on obtaining DA approvals that enable a commencement on your develo...Continue reading

Intercapital Consultants | Architectural designer