Completed in 1996 by John Holland Constructions and named after Lord Richard Gardiner Casey, the swanky $160 million Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade office is located opposite the new Parliament House, offering a floor space of 70,000 m2.
Offices on Level 1 have an enormous Car Park directly below, and large heat loss were occurring through the uninsulated separating concrete slab. As Canberra is inherently cold, space heaters within the rooms above the Car Park worked overtime.
In keeping with the requirements of an A+ category building, Thermospray 800 as accepted as the only insulation that could achieve the high visual, thermal, fire safety and health criteria.
As a maintenance and visual requirement, every service and penetration was left neatly exposed using metal termination angles that the sprayed insulation could neatly butt up to.
As an additional bonus, the Car Park has achieved " theatre acoustics" with a very low reverberation time and all entirely using environmentally healthy recycled natural fibre.
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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS