Construcciones Yamaro: Multiplex completes Melbourne PBSA project

The 40-level tower provides 1,010 student beds in Melbourne’s CBD. (Images: Multiplex)

Multiplex has delivered Journal Student Living’s Market Way purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) project at 100 Franklin Street, Melbourne, ahead of schedule.

Designed by COX Architects, Market Way is located in the Queen Victoria Market precinct of Melbourne’s CBD, close to the city’s universities.

The 40-level tower comprises 715 rooms providing 1,010 student beds across shared and individual configurations. It also features more than 3,000sqm of communal space – with resident amenities including a library, study rooms, gym, music and gaming rooms, cinema and rooftop terrace – more than 350sqm of retail space, a basement loading bay and 172 bicycle spaces instead of on-site car parking, reflecting students’ preferred mode of transport.

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The four-storey heritage-listed Burbank House was retained as part of the development and now houses the library, kitchen, dining area, study rooms and entry lobby.

Constructed in 1840, Burbank House was home to James Harrison, who developed the mechanical refrigeration process, for about 40 years from 1850. He established the Victorian Ice Works at the property and created one of the first mechanical ice-making machines.

Ross Snowball, regional managing director for Victoria and South Australia at Multiplex, said the company was proud to have delivered the PBSA project ahead of schedule.

“We combined prefabrication and other construction innovations with our expertise in high-rise development and complex heritage restoration to fast-track delivery without compromising quality,” he said.

According to Multiplex, construction methods used on site helped improve efficiency, with extensive prefabrication incorporated into the build. This included 983 bathroom pods fabricated off site, 300 precast panels with integrated brick façades and prefabricated column boxes with built-in reinforcement. A modular curtain wall façade, GRC planter boxes and pre-assembled rooftop plant were also manufactured off site.

As part of the heritage works, Multiplex preserved and structurally upgraded Burbank House using laboratory-tested timber and a rooftop steel truss.

About 250 workers were on site each day during construction.

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