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Key People

Project Manager and Superintendent

Architect

  • Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)

Head Contractor

  • A W Edwards Pty Ltd

Consultants and Subcontractors

  • Access – Accessibility Solutions (NSW) Pty Ltd
  • Acoustics – Acoustic Studio
  • ASRS – HK Systems
  • Bulk Excavation and Shoring; Demolition – Ward Civil Engineering
  • Contamination – EDAW
  • Concrete Work – De Martin and Gasparini
  • Electrical Services – Stowe Australia
  • Energy Efficiency & Fire Safety – Stephen Grubits and Associates
  • Facade Design – Connell Wagner Group Pty Ltd
  • Facade Construction – Facade Innovations
  • Fire Services – P&R Fire
  • Formwork – Formtec
  • Geotechnicians – Douglas Partners
  • Green Star Accredited Professionals – Steensen Varming (Aust) Pty Ltd
  • Heritage assessment – Graham Brooks and Associates
  • Hydraulic & Fire Systems Design – Warren Smith & Partners Pty Ltd
  • Hydraulic Services – Nisbet & Durney
  • Independent Commissioning Agent – Thwaite Consulting Group Pty Ltd
  • Landscaping Design – fjmt
  • Legal – Clayton Utz; Deacons Australia
  • Lift installation – Elevator Services Group Pty Ltd
  • Logistics and waste management – Peter Ellis & Associates
  • Mechanical Services – Haden
  • OH&S - Noel Arnold & Associates
  • Planning Approvals – JBA Urban Planning Consultants
  • Quantity Surveyor – Davis Langdon
  • Post-tensioning – Australian Prestressing Services
  • Reinforcement (supply) – Active Steel
  • Reinforcement (fixing) – Global Steel
  • Services – Steensen Varming (Australia) Pty Ltd
  • Site Survey – Lockley Land Title Solutions
  • Structural Engineers – Taylor Thomson Whitting (NSW) Pty Ltd Consulting Engineers
  • Termite Control –Termimesh
  • Furniture Design - Woods Bagot
  • Furniture Supply - Herman Miller; Hi Tek Joinery; Stylecraft; Kfive; Zenith; Interstudio; Dexion; Halsina Do Smith
  • AV Design - Roberts Weaver
  • People Counters - Oztec
  • Security Gates - Tag Alert
  • Relocation - Allied Pickfords
  • Heritage Architects - Architectural Projects

Project Control Group

  • Maxine Brodie, University Librarian, Macquarie University Library
  • Mark Broomfield, Director, Macquarie Property, Macquarie University
  • Mark Middlebrook, Executive Project Manager, Major Projects and Development, Macquarie Property, Macquarie University
  • Peter Morgan, Project Manager and Superintendent, Executive Project Management
  • Jennifer Peasley, Deputy University Librarian, Macquarie University Library

What's the Latest?

We're getting ready for the new Library Moving the Library to a new building is a huge challenge. The new Library offers a fresh environment with great potential to re-shape the way we do things to better serve YOU. Read on ...[pdf 831kb]

Trees, Shrubs & Wildlife: What's happening?
Ecological assessment of the biodiversity, flora and fauna of the new Library site has been carried out by a number of specialists and no threatened habitats or species have been identified in this area.

Your Library on the Move: tagging 1.4m items
As the new Library takes shape, Macquarie University Library is already ' on the move' gearing up for the massive task of ...Read on [pdf 782kb]

blog@library2010

Have your say ! Join our blog and make a contribution on what you think is important regarding the New Library

Library Stories

Share your story !  As part of the Library 2010 project, Library Friends are collecting Library Stories to commemorate the 40 year history of the current building. If you are interested in sharing your recollections, reflections or remembrances of our Library contact us at librarystories@library.mq.edu.au

a picture of a girl in front of the library building 40 years ago

This pathway has now been replaced and renamed Wally’s Walk. The saplings on the edges of the pathway have grown to magisterial proportions. These impressive, leafy plane trees now mask the concrete architectural brutalism of that original design. A green canopy that shields the eye and the sky. Read on…