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Real Partnerships: Innovative façade engineering for sustainable, high-performance buildings

Our established facade team of over 10 engineers and designers brings together specialists from mechanical, sustainability, architectural and structural backgrounds to provide the best integrated solutions for your project.

At Northrop, we work as single discipline, or alongside other specialisations to provide clients with intelligent and integrated façade solutions that are well resolved, coordinated and documented. We take a holistic approach to considering the building envelope, understanding the inputs from each discipline, as well as overall compliance and approval risks.

We’re driven to provide comfort for building occupants, compliance to energy and regulatory authorities and to realise the most challenging architectural intent. We appreciate the impact our designs can have on the everyday user, as well as the planet.

With projects delivered Australia-wide, we work across all façade types and building typologies for developers, builders, sub-contractors, and government. Our team offers a broad skillset that includes the highly technical and the highly practical, bringing a pragmatic and best-practise approach to your projects.

Working in the façade team is incredibly rewarding. Our close partnerships with architects brings design intent to life, and collaborating across disciplines ensures we deliver cost-effective, integrated solutions. I love seeing our work truly shine.
Samuel Suarez
Façade Group Manager | Senior Façade Designer

Primary Façade Services

Façade Design and Documentation

As our core service, we provide consulting and documentation services from concept design through to construction. We can performance specify, fully document, or even partner with architects to help them develop their own detailing and provide third party certification.

Weatherproofing Performance Solution (F3P1)

Most buildings require a performance solution, particularly to address junctions and interfaces between different facade systems, to satisfy Part F of the NCC. Our team can provide this alongside best-practice detailing to improve the watertightness of your building and mitigate damage and unhealthy conditions, informed by lessons learnt from our remedial team.

Condensation Risk Management

Mould growth is a huge problem, especially for our homes and hospitals. We help you understand and mitigate potential for mould growth from our years of experience as well as tools such as WUFI, which simulates long-term weathering cycles.

NSW Design and Building Practitioners Act (DBPA)

We provide Regulated Designs for buildings that fall under the DBPA. We can either provide this through full documentation at CC stage, or work with your subcontractors to incorporate their designs into our declaration.

Specialist Areas of Expertise

Services

• Façade Engineering
• Weather-proofing Design
• Condensation Risk Analysis / Mould Growth Analysis
• Façade Structural Engineering Design
• Façade Thermal Analysis
• Façade Design & Detailed Drawing
• Façade Defect Investigation
• Waterproofing

Expertise

• Commercial & Fitout (inc retail)
• Education
• Health
• Hotels & Hospitality
• Industrial & Logistics
• Residential, Student Accommodation & BTR
• Seniors Living
• Sports

Client Partnerships Realised

Melonba Education Campus

Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) – First Building

Contact your local Northrop Civil Engineering Client Partner today

Experience the difference Northrop’s Client Partner approach makes and the Real Impact it will have on your next project.

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