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The whole envelope, engineered by one studio.

STRUST is a structural and façade engineering studio working on premium commercial, infrastructure and high-rise residential projects across Australia. We are trusted partners to the country's leading contractors and façade specialists, and we hold both disciplines under one roof so the frame and the envelope are engineered as one system.

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  • CPEng
  • NER
  • NSW DBP
  • PE NSW
  • PE VIC
  • RPEQ

Engineering services

Structure and façade, plus the technical menu underneath.

Structural engineering

  • New build structural design
  • Alterations and additions
  • Concept and detail design
  • Seismic design
  • Wind reports
  • Handling and lifting assessments
  • Temporary works design
  • Peer review and certification
  • Site inspections

Façade engineering

  • Structural assessment of the façade
  • Thermal assessment
  • Condensation analysis
  • Waterproofing assessment (FP1.4 and F3P1 reports)
  • Blast analysis
  • Façade testing analysis
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Product development
  • Design for lifting

Façade types

  • Curtain wall and window wall systems
  • Glass reinforced concrete (GRC)
  • Glass reinforced polymer (GRP)
  • Architectural glass walls
  • Solid metal cladding (non-combustible)
  • Natural stone, brick and brick slip
  • CFC cladding systems
  • Signage

Existing buildings

  • Remedial engineering
  • Building inspections and condition assessment
  • Dilapidation reports
  • Cladding replacement and re-cladding certification
  • Weatherproofing to existing structures

Case studies

How holding both disciplines changes the job.

Victoria & Albert twin residential towers, Broadbeach

01 / Broadbeach, Queensland

Victoria & Albert

Glazed façade · balustrades · fins · secondary steel · Lidco International

Two coastal towers of 64 and 46 storeys over four podium levels. At that height the wind environment and the weatherproofing line are unforgiving, and the glazed façade, balustrades and secondary steel all load back into the primary structure.

  • Structure and façade engineered together, so the secondary steel and the glazed envelope were resolved as one load path rather than two packages meeting on site.
  • Computational fluid dynamics to read local wind pressures, including at the balconies where standard code values do not tell the whole story.
  • Thermal and weatherproofing detailing carried through to certification.

A documented, certified and buildable envelope for both towers, with the façade-to-structure interface settled in design instead of on the program.

State Library Station concourse, Melbourne Metro Tunnel, with its arched vaulted ceiling

02 / OSD and stations, Melbourne

Melbourne Metro

Curtain wall · GRC · blast-rated façade · thermal · SRG Global · Minesco · AUGRC

Major transport infrastructure with a curtain wall and GRC façade that had to withstand blast loading as part of the project requirements, across over-site development and stations.

  • Blast design of the façade elements using finite element and dynamic time-history analysis.
  • GRC panels and curtain wall engineered and certified for the over-site development and the station boxes.
  • Thermal analysis carried through the certified documentation.

A blast-rated, certified façade delivered into a major public infrastructure program alongside its specialist façade contractors.

Central Markets Adelaide redevelopment façade

03 / Adelaide, South Australia

Central Markets Adelaide

Curtain wall · thermal analysis · Glass Wall System · Multiplex

A commercial building in a landmark city-centre redevelopment, where the curtain wall had to perform thermally and be certified for a marquee builder.

  • Curtain wall design and certification for the commercial building.
  • Thermal analysis to confirm envelope performance against the brief.

A certified, compliant curtain wall delivered for the redevelopment with the façade contractor and head builder.

Project portfolio

Towers, transport and the buildings that cannot go wrong.

Victoria & Albert

Broadbeach, QLD

Glazed façade, balustrades, fins, secondary steel

Lidco International

Melbourne Metro OSD & Stations

Melbourne, VIC

Curtain wall, GRC, blast-rated façade, thermal

SRG Global · Minesco · AUGRC

Castle Grange

Castle Hill, Sydney

Full façade engineering and certification, seven buildings

Meriton

Central Markets Redevelopment

Adelaide, SA

Curtain wall façade and thermal analysis

Glass Wall System · Multiplex

North East Link Vent Towers

Melbourne, VIC

Diagrid steel structure and façade, design review and certification

Minesco

Melbourne Airport Terminal 3

Melbourne, VIC

Window wall, steel mullions, glazing canopy and façade portal, thermal

Minesco Facades

Y7, 899 Collins Street

Melbourne, VIC

Curtain wall façade, 42-storey tower and podium

Minesco Facades

51 Flinders Lane

Melbourne, VIC

Curtain wall glazing and brick-slip façade, podium and south tower

SRG Global

Nine by Mirvac

Willoughby, Sydney

GRC panel design review and certification

AU GRC

Project Remediate, Roseberry

Sydney, NSW

Peer review and certification of re-cladding

Multiplex Global

Garden Place Student Accommodation

Brisbane, QLD

Weatherproofing review, FP1.4 performance solution, 924 apartments

ICEN

Rochester

Broadbeach, QLD

Glazed façade, fins and sunshades, design review and certification

Lidco International

A selection. Named clients include Multiplex, Meriton, Mirvac, Hutchinson Builders, Lidco International, SRG Global, Coronation Properties, Lipman and others.

The team

The people who sign off the work.

Arash Hemmati

Director

Chartered engineer with 26 years delivering structural and façade engineering, and the person who signs off the work.

BEng (Civil), MEng (Structural), MSc (Project Management) · CPEng · NER · MIEAust · NSW DBP · PE VIC · RPEQ

  • Tianhong Gu

    Senior Structural & Façade Engineer

    BEng, MEng (Structural) · CPEng · NER · MIEAust · NSW DBP

  • Dr Shaun Derakhshani

    Senior Consultant, Building Physics

    PhD, Mechanical Engineering

  • Mike Gwodz

    Weatherproofing Specialist

  • Sima Ryan

    Director, Operations

Backed by structural and façade engineers and senior drafting across the Sydney studio.

Registrations & assurance

Certifiable wherever it is built.

  • CPEng

    Chartered Professional Engineer

  • NER

    National Engineering Register

  • NSW DBP

    Design and Building Practitioner

  • PE NSW

    Professional Engineer, New South Wales

  • PE VIC

    Professional Engineer, Victoria

  • RPEQ

    Registered Professional Engineer, Queensland

  • Registered in every state and territory

    CPEng, NER and registration as a Professional Engineer across NSW, VIC and QLD, plus NSW Design and Building Practitioner. The work can be certified wherever it is built.

  • DBP-compliant documentation

    Design and certification documents prepared to the Design and Building Practitioners Act, on exactly the work that gets audited.

  • Independent peer review

    Design review and certification offered as a discrete service, including re-cladding and remediation under the NSW reforms.

Contact

Send the project. Get a fee proposal.

0467 063 976arash@strust.com.au

Suite 105, 781 Pacific Highway, Chatswood NSW 2067

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