King Street Wharf, occupying approximately five hectares, is Australia’s newest and most prestigious commercial and mixed use development. Located within Sydney’s famous Darling Harbour, 1 Shelly Street is King Steet Wharf’s iconic, “A” grade commercial tower.
King Street Wharf, occupying approximately five hectares, is Australia’s newest and most prestigious commercial and mixed use development. Located within Sydney’s famous Darling Harbour, 1 Shelly Street is King Steet Wharf’s iconic, “A” grade commercial tower.
Awarded the Office Design “V2” Rating, 1 Shelly Street fully embraces the principle of a modern, open plan working environment with its 10 floors of commercial office space resonating from a single vast atrium. However, fire and smoke modelling of the building identified the need for a modern alternative to traditional smoke and air management systems to provide the high level of smoke control necessary to meet fire regulations that would allow for the 3000 occupants to evacuate the building safely.
Coopers solution was to install a bespoke system of SmokeStop smoke curtain barriers specifically developed to contain and manage smoke entering the building’s large atrium, and protecting the emergency escape routes from smoke to provide tenable conditions. Working closely with the fire engineers, Arup, Coopers installed the SmokeStop smoke curtain barriers with side guides to prevent the lateraly migration of spreading smoke, as well as a providing a bespoke control system to give the building a sophisticated level of smoke management which can be manually controlled by the fire brigade in the even of an emergency.
Furthermore, the unique architectural design of the building’s feature pods and link bridges that traverse the atrium, called for a dedicated smoke control system that would allow for local access. In the meeting the challenging design strategy Coopers installed the smoke curtain barriers with custom retract functions that would provide access on either side of the link bridges.
From concept to full commission, Coopers worked closely with the project’s main contractor Brookfield Multiplex and fire engineers Arup to guarantee that the building’s unique architectural, open plan design remained compliant with stringent fire regulations.
Additional to the SmokeStop™ smoke curtain system, Coopers also overcame the challenge of the buildings’ three standalone automated alarm settings by incorporating a bespoke custom built, fireman’s override panel. This function allowed for the cascading deployment of the smoke curtain barriers across the multiple levels as well as the option for safe retraction on a fire affected floor. This proved to be a key objective highlighted in the fire engineer’s design.
