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2005 Winner
The Bond - Sydney NSW Bovis Lend Lease

The Bond commercial building, at Millers Point in Sydney, was declared Australia’s most outstanding example of construction excellence at the 2005 Australian Construction Achievement Award, presented at a gala dinner at Doltone House Pyrmont in Sydney, Friday 20 May.

In announcing the winner, the Chair of the judging panel, Dr John Nutt AM, said, “The Bond is a sophisticated city office building with many innovative features. We were impressed by the determined focus on energy efficiency and by the depth of research that underpinned each innovation – natural ventilation and lighting, an active façade, and state-of-the-art building services.

“These resulted in high environmental standards, superb internal spaces and sensitive heritage features - it was a brilliant commitment and extraordinarily well engineered.”

The complexity and difficulty of the $107 million construction task also included remediation of the site and the suitability of the use of ‘chilled beam’ technology in the Australian climate to provide thermal comfort throughout the building, in place of traditional variable air volume systems.

An exposed rock wall forms a key part of the building envelope. The wall, hand hewn by convicts in the early 1800s, is the longest and oldest sandstone cutting in Sydney.

The award was accepted by Bob Johnston, CEO Bovis Lend Lease Asia Pacific, who said, “The Bond in Millers Point Sydney is arguably the most significant commercial office project constructed in the past decade. It has redefined expectations of what can be delivered in a work environment in this country.