The Australian National University Student Accommodation Development project comprised the construction of a six level residential building with rooms ranging from 22sqm to 35sqm and made out of stackable modular units. This method was the first of its kind in Australia and has reduced the overall construction program significantly to a six month time frame.

Client  Hutchinson Builders
Contract Value  $400,000
Services  Design & Construct
Branch ACT Region
Electrical Installation
Communications & Data

Star group provided the electrical services of the project, which included services to 188 modular rooms that delivers environmentally sensitive, superior student housing and has the capacity to be modified for future expansion.

Star Group’s services provided on the project included:

  • Electrical services and temporary electrical services
  • Power supply and services
  • On-site apartment wiring
  • IP Camera Cabling
  • CBUS System
  • Fire Detection System
  • Water & Gas interface
  • DLP Maintenance
  • Infrastructure works
  • Project management
  • Category 6 data cabling system
  • Patch panel cabinet
  • Lighting Systems
  • Earthing Systems
  • Backfilling and compaction of obsolete holes
  • Sealing around sanitary fixtures, fittings and penetrations
  • Positioning core holes to all floor slabs and pipework to all walls and floors
  • Sewer manholes, stormwater pits, roadway pits
  • Security, safety lighting and guardrails
  • Sleeve pipes where they pass through floors, walls
  • Acoustically insulate, thermal and fire rate pipes, conduits and ducts; and
  • Conduit systems and fixings.