HUTCHIES’ A QUARTERLY NEWSLET TER FOR HUTCHINSON BUILDERS
HUTCHIES has started work on Australia’s first mass timber fire station for the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) in Maryborough, on the Fraser Coast. A new engineered timber complex will replace an existing fire station while retaining and restoring the original’s heritage facade. The $12.1 million QFES project is due for completion in the second half of 2022. Hutchies is partnering with another long-serving family company, Hyne Timber, established in 1882. Chairman Scott Hutchinson said the Maryborough fire station was Hutchies’ first mass timber project in Queensland. “What better way to deliver a sustainable and contemporary building than with two historic Queensland companies coming together, supported by a project
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The heritage exterior of the Maryborough fire station will be retained in its rebuild. team of experts, including hand in this project, including the buildings. another Queensland icon, the seedling nursery many years ago, “Hyne Timber thanks the University of Queensland,” said the mature pine plantation, the Queensland Government teams Scott. sawmills and glue laminating who supported us, including State “The Maryborough fire station is plant,” she said. Development, local MLA Bruce an innovative project by the UQ’s “It is exciting to highlight the Saunders, the market-led proCentre for Future Timber Struc- innovative solutions of the cross posal team and the QFES.” tures (CFTS) which carried out a laminated timber experts at The Hyne Group includes both full 3D scan of the existing XLam who have showcased Hyne Timber and XLam for glue structure and worked with the Australian mass timber designs laminated and cross laminated design team. and the fire performance creden- design solutions and supply “The building is not only a tials of mass engineered timber security. highly specialised design to meet the operational needs of the fire and emergency service personnel, but also a demonstration of the local capability and products sourced from renewable plantation forests.” Hyne Timber’s Katie Fowden said everyone involved in the project had been passionate about creating a sustainable building from the day a mass timber fire station was first mooted during an innovation forum in Maryborough. “Many local Queenslanders have had a
Plans for 110th celebrations
Hutchies’ QFES team members, Oliver Macklin (left) and James Bellas, get acquainted with Mary Poppins in Maryborough, the birthplace in 1899 of P.L. Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff), the creator of the famous nanny.
Village at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast was one of the first sites to unveil Hutchies’ new 110 years celebration branding which is being rolled out across the network. PLANS are underway to celebrate out Australia, with easing of Hutchies’ 110th anniversary next COVID restrictions. year. As part of the easing of The new 110 years – 1912 to restrictions and due to popular 2022 – branding is being phased request, it is planned for in and the hope is that real, Hutchies’ Truth to revert to its rather than virtual, celebrations quarterly cycle. (See story on will be held in offices through- Page 5).