Ecologically sustainable design
Floth is producing exciting work in the areas of ESD and modelling, in addition to the building services engineering we’re widely known for.
Here is a snapshot of some of the services we provide, contact us to find out more.
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Acoustics
- Architectural and building acoustics for residential developments, health facilities, office buildings, commercial uses, entertainment venues, industrial facilities, defence facilities and educational facilities
- Environmental noise impact assessments for infrastructure, residential, commercial, community, mixed-use and industrial developments
- Specialised acoustical design of recording studios and audiometric facilities
- Vibration isolation of buildings, pools, floors and mechanical plant
- Construction noise and vibration control
- Entertainment noise testing
- Troubleshooting and mitigation
- Industrial noise and vibration control
- Noise and vibration monitoring
- Occupational noise monitoring and control
- Noise management plans
- Laboratory and in-situ testing
- Education and training
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Vertical transportation
- Passenger and goods lifts
- Escalators and moving walkways
- Building maintenance units (BMU)
- Hoists and services lifts
- Mechanical parking
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Hydraulic engineering
- Water supplies and treatment plant
- Water reticulation systems
- Hot water plant and reticulation systems
- Gas reticulation systems
- Sanitary plumbing and drainage
- Stormwater drainage
- Sewage treatment systems
- Vacuum drainage systems
- Syphonic roof drainage systems
- Hydrant and hose reel systems
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Fire engineering
- Automatic sprinkler systems (including deluge, drencher and wall wetting systems)
- Fire detection and alarm systems
- Sound and intercom systems for emergency purposes
- Special hazard systems (including gas suppression, water mist and specialist detection)
- Fire extinguishers
- Fire engineered solutions
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Electrical engineering
- Power generation
- Renewable power generation
- High and low voltage power reticulation
- Internal and external lighting
- Specialist feature lighting
- Sports lighting
- Security and access control systems
- Structured cabling systems
- Background music and PA systems
- Audio visual systems
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Mechanical engineering
- Tri-generation/Co-generation plants
- Heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems (HVAC)
- Clean room HVAC systems
- Transport HVAC systems
- Refrigeration systems
- Steam generation and reticulation systems
- Compressed air and medical gas reticulation systems
- Building monitoring and control systems
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3D Documentation
- 3D modelling using both industry standard and in-house developed software
- Building, structure and services coordination including automated clash detection
- Creation of base building backgrounds using architectural and structural models imported from common packages including IFC, Microstation®, ArchiCAD©, Revit Architecture© and Revit Structure©
- Design and documentation using MAP CAD-Duct©, AutoCAD MEP©, Revit MEP©, Navisworks©
- Modelling to review and optimise continually evolving building design
- Development of walk-throughs for visualisation for the client and other stakeholders
- Various output formats available (e.g. IFC Export, CAD-DUCT, Revit and Navisworks®)
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Ecologically sustainable design (ESD)
- Green Star
- NABERS
- NatHERS
- Energy performance modelling
- Solar modelling
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling
- Thermal numerical analysis