Projects

Tamworth Hospital Redevelopment Acute Services Building provides a hub for medical, surgical and other specialities in the region and includes consultancy outreach and support for chronic and complex disease management across the whole community.

We were engaged by a plumbing contractor to carry out the Hydraulic design finalization and workshop drawings. The workshop drawings were completed in REVIT which was utilized to carry out full coordination of all services for the project.

The project value was $220 million dollars.

John Hunter Children’s Hospital. Stage 1 has provided a new Special Care ICU, encompassing clinical spaces, family wing and dedicated palliative care spaces.

The architect wanted the design to be focused heavily on colours, materials and textures derived from nature, with a colour palette transitioning from greens through to blues, timber look finishes and large-scale wall imagery of natural, local scenes and plants.

We worked closely with EJE Architecture to provide a Specialist Lighting design as this was another primary design consideration throughout the planning process, with indirect and natural lighting utilised throughout the unit as much as possible.

The new $6.5m Muswellbrook Hospital Emergency Department was designed and documented by EJE to enable the delivery of a modern and augmented approach to the provision of emergency care in an environment that improved patient flows and internal and external functional relationships.

The design for the new 1000m2 Emergency Department promotes contemporary models of emergency care by providing distinct and flexible functional areas new resuscitation bays, treatment beds, fast track patient care facilities, paediatric treatment rooms, isolation rooms, dedicated consult rooms, nursing and ambulance triage areas, safe assessment treatment facilities, and separate staff office accommodation and amenities.

The public waiting area incorporates an innovative indoor/outdoor courtyard waiting space, which avoids the institutional experience which historically have been endured by patients and visitors in hospital emergency facilities at times of trauma and stress.

Works included a new operating theatre, new medical records area, new admissions area, and refurbishments to existing wards.

This $18 million dollar refurbishment included a new operating theatre, new recovery area, new 1500m2 Oncology Department and refurbishments to existing wards.

The village consists of 101 dwellings across a mix of ‘conventional’ single-storey detached and semi-detached villas and apartment living.

All villas & apartments have been designed to provide open plan living areas, relating directly to northern-orientated covered outdoor spaces, maximising passive solar design principles.

Substantial recreation facilities are also provided including indoor pool, gym, bar and dining areas.

Fig Tree Point Aged Care Facility offers residents a lakeside lifestyle that most people only dream of.

Set on the picturesque Lake Macquarie in Toronto, residents can enjoy spectacular views, take part in stimulating lifestyle activities, or simply relax in this tranquil sanctuary.

The development includes 81 bed residential aged care facility made up of Five wings over four levels.

High care rooms are located on the upper level and low care and dementia-specific care is provided on the lower level which opens out onto a large dementia care courtyard.

This sloping site allowed us to locate all the main services on the lower level. These services included the main electrical switch room, hot water plant and kitchen.

RFBI Dubbo Masonic Village is a brand new 70 bed residential aged care village opening in May 2017.

The development contains an onsite state-of-the-art kitchen, community centre and numerous other facilities including a hair and beauty salon, health and wellness room, spa room, café, cinema room, large feature lounge area with a fireplace, a library and internet nook.

We have designed the services to integrate and compliment the building design.

Waterview Aged Care Facility is located in Teralba, on the western side of picturesque Lake Macquarie.

The development includes 97 bed residential aged care facility made up of Five wings over three levels.

Scenic Lodge is a 55 room residential aged care facility offering extra services low care accommodation.

The design of Scenic Lodge is one of a domestic scale building form broken into two wings that are linked via service and communal areas internally and landscaped courtyards externally.

The building incorporates domestic style air conditioning in residents rooms to provide the feel of still being at home, while the warm water system, nurse call and all other NSW Health required services are kept out of site where possible to promote this type of homely building.

The redevelopment of Stockland Green Hills Shopping Centre at East Maitland in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales was carried out in 2017.

Stockland more than doubled the size of the centre from just under 33,000 square metres of Gross Lettable Area (GLA) that existed to create around 70,000 square metres of GLA. The centre will be opened in early 2018.

Stockland Green Hills Shopping Centre redevelopment will contain in the 70,000 square metre centre a new David Jones department store, two full-line supermarkets: Woolworths and Coles, two full-line discount department stores: Big W and Target, 16 mini-majors, more than 225 specialty retailers comprising in-line shops and kiosks, an expanded restaurant and leisure precinct, a new indoor-outdoor casual dining precinct and an expanded fresh food offering, and 3,100 car parking spaces.

Stockland Green Hills was constructed by Brookfield Multiplex as its lead contractor on the project.

Stockland is committed to achieving minimum 4 Star Green Star Retail Design and As Built ratings for the project, which will include the installation of energy-efficient lighting and central air conditioning and maximised use of natural daylight. The environmental initiatives will continue with 160kL rainwater tank for toilet flushing and landscape irrigation, recycling of fire system test water and the installation of water and energy metering and building management systems.

Project value was $377 Million dollars.

Stockland Shellharbour is a shopping centre and one of the largest in the Illawarra region. The Centre incorporates Woolworths, Coles and Kmart, Target, First Choice Liquor, HS home, JB Hi-Fi, Best & Less and over 220 specialty stores and services.

The redevelopment of Stockland Shellharbour that Marline was involved in from 2012-2013 has been designed to high environmental standards and has been awarded a 4-star Green Star - Retail Centre Design v1 rating by the Green Building Council of Australia. 4 stars represents 'Best Practice' in environmentally sustainable building practices and is a great outcome for the development. The centre is additionally registered for a 4 star Green Star - Retail As Built v1 rating.

The Coles Port Macquarie project redeveloped an existing Council car park on the edge of the CBD. Comprising a ground floor car park, first floor retail and rooftop car park, the development includes a Coles Tenancy of 4,100m2, three specialty shops and car parking for over 300 cars.

Hansen Yuncken propose an alternative design with their winning tender, and Marline developed a design for the plumbing contractor to fit the scheme further during the ECI phase.

This office building is the first stage of a larger commercial development on the edge of the Port Macquarie CBD. The building is book ended between curved end blade walls and has large roof overhangs and sun screening.

The ‘Boat Shed’ as the name implies was originally a large boat storage area attached to the side of the Belmont 16 foot sailing club. The overall 1000 sqm open floor design includes a sports lounge with a central bar, TAB facilities, a snooker room, outdoor gaming lounge, a dedicated kitchen serving the main floor area and dining terrace looking over Lake Macquarie.

The design of the building services required detailed and thorough coordination with the Architects to allow the installation of all the services to fit within the existing structure while still being able to achieve the features the aesthetics required The Air conditioning was the most difficult design to suit the existing structure and constraints. The end solution is almost a seamless integration of the required services into the complex and creative Architectural design.

The new Sandvik Australia Operations Centre at Heatherbrae NSW is a $60 million D & C development which combines several different operations facilities onto the one super site. It is a benchmark facility for Sandvik providing state of the art offices adjacent to the heavy industry workshops.

The clever incorporation of an existing crescent of trees on the site allows the two different work environments to sit comfortably in close proximity, providing a street presence fitting of a multinational, and allows for the efficient operations of Sandvik Australia.

This project involved the comprehensive renovation and addition of 2 levels to a 1960’s office building originally built for Eagle Insurance.

The clients brief was for a building and fitout that would be representative of the level of finish that guests would experience on one of their tour packages, as well as to provide a high level of amenity to their staff.

The new facility, Battlesticks at Scratchleys, operates as a semi-independent Tapas Bar alongside the existing Scratchleys a-la-carte dining room.

The over-the-water location celebrates the city’s best views of the working harbour, and the marine micro-climate is utilised in cooling the building, with no air-conditioning required. The construction works cleverly bridged between the foreshore and a former sea-plane loading platform, requiring no new sea piles or impact on the harbour. Dramatic angled sun-shading blades on the western facade of the building protect patrons from the harsh setting summer sun, whilst still providing views to Dyke Point and shipping activity to the north-west. At night the blades become a welcoming beacon, a striking addition to the foreshore walkway.

The design of Battlesticks at Scratchleys began with careful site analysis, identifying the area as a historical place of food gathering for Indigenous Australians, where oysters and shellfish were collected from the harbour embankment. The building now continues to rest as an oyster on the foreshore, providing a good meal for passers-by.

Marline are assisting in the complete transformation of the “Doylo”, with a number of stages now complete including new bistro and gaming areas, entry relocation and an expanded alfresco area for dining and entertainment.

Increased lounge and socialisation spaces were introduced by realigning the bistro and gaming room, with unique banquette seating arrangements providing appealing seating selection for patrons. The new servery bench, bar and iconic ceiling in the gaming room provide focal areas and the use of materials such as back-lit bar panels, custom designed Axminster carpets, textured tiles and feature lights create an identity for the club as well as showcase its transformation.

The most recent update to the club is a two-storey addition, utilising an old bowling green site, which offers a new “Active Fitness” gym with an alfresco Smokehouse and craft beer garden above. Bespoke materials such as rich natural timbers, cobble effect floor tiles, industrial style light fittings and leather-look furniture were selected for the smokehouse to create an American aesthetic with timber hardwood ceiling linings in both pavilions dominating the space and adding natural warmth. The double pavilion style is visible from over a kilometer away on the Pacific Highway and serves to counterbalance the soaring porte cochere roof.

Over the past decade The Junction has transformed from a typical suburban shopping area to that of a boutique precinct complemented by restaurants with a distinctive alfresco feel.

This was achieved by relocating a central bar and service area, allowing the principle street elevations to open up and interact with the streetscape. The interiors then responded to this lightness by providing a fresh palate of materials that reflected the beachside location without being a literal interpretation.

This project involved the expansion of the existing Newcastle Airport to include a new departure lounge, expanded arrivals area and new administration office area.