AIRAH are holding a site visit for their members to Brooke Street Pier next week to see the site and its HVAC plant in operation.
The Brooke Street Pier, located at the end of Brooke Street in Sullivans Cove, Tasmania, is currently an 80-metre long four-storey floating pontoon that will house popular restaurants and retail stores, including but not limited to–Pilgrim Coffee, Grandvewe Cheeses, Huon Tasmanian Salmon and Moobrew and Moorilla. It will also serve as a passenger terminal for the Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) and Peppermint Bay passenger ferries.
The translucent upper deck acts as a conservatory which will enable sunlight to come through and be used as the primary source of heating. A hydronic heating system has also been installed to complement the solar heating. As for cooling, circulated sea water is used throughout the Brooke Street Pier’s piping. The Pier’s HVAC system will reduce cost and environmental impacts. The Brooke Street Pier will also rise and fall with the tide.
The new Brooke Street Pier was built by Tasmanian firm, Fairbrother at a cost of $13 million and was floated to down the River Derwent from the Prince of Wales Bay.
According to its website, the Brooke Street Pier has existed in many forms for over 150 years, with original records of pier and wharf structures dating back to the 1820s.
The AIRAH site visit is being held next Thursday 19 February at 5pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time), it is a members-only event.
More information on the site visit can be found here.