Hickory Building Systems.Overview of Prefabricated Structural System.

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Integrated Structural Systems.

From foundation to final completion

Hickory’s patented building technology delivers an innovative, technological alternative to the construction of medium and highrise residential, hotel, healthcare, correctional and education projects.

Our Integrated Structural System (“The Hickory System”) accelerates on-site and off-site construction programs by up to 60%, minimising material and energy waste, whilst maximising quality and safety.

We blend the best of manufacturing and construction technology, processes and personnel to deliver our clients a turnkey building solution, anywhere in Australia.

The Hickory System is suitable for a range of high-rise projects including:

• Apartments• Hotels• Hospitals & healthcare centres• Student accommodation

The Hickory System is unlike any other construction offer available to the Australian market.

Modular technology that claims to be similar is usually quite limited in application – often used only for temporary or low cost housing and accommodation.

The Hickory System is different; we can build to any height or layout, and have been specified on buildings over 70 stories high.

This uniquely integrated project solution enables Hickory to deliver projects for our clients that consistently outperform on measures of time, cost, sustainability and quality.

Hickory works with leading Architects, Developers, Engineers and Contractors to build your building, not ours. We engineer and prototype our system to suit your requirements and provide a turnkey construction solution, innovatively delivering quality projects from foundation to final completion.

Our uniquely integrated project solution allows Hickory to deliver projects that consistently outperform on measures of time, cost, sustainability and quality.

3:EAST

Richmond, Vic

THE NICHOLSON

East Coburg, Vic

As an established construction company with extensive self perform capabilities and over 20 years experience in building major projects, Hickory is able to offer a complete turn-key construction solutions using the combined resources of our manufacturing and construction divisions.

The advantage of working with Hickory is the experience we bring to the build process and flexibility in the range of services and solutions we provide.

The company offers complete end-to-end on-site and off-site solutions encompassing:

• Site preparation of foundations and structural footings, including the construction of podiums and the subcontracted demolition of existing on-site structures.

• Manufacture of the majority of a project’s structure off-site in our manufacturing facility.

• Installation of all services, including electrics, plumbing, sewerage, sprinkler systems, air-conditioning, heating and gas systems. These are designed to interface with on-site services conduits.

• Inclusive roofing solutions delivered with the top building units.

• Transportation, crane logistics and installation of structural system on-site.

• Fit-out of all interior components of the build.

Seamless Project Delivery.

Prefabricated, integrated construction solutions, brought to you by Australia’s leading residential builder.

How it works

Unified Structure Integrated FacadeThe building process begins with an engineered concrete floor, load bearing columns, integrated wet areas and a building façade that is constructed off-site in a production line environment. The basic structural architecture has been designed to be scalable with occupancies that can span across multiple modules to generate generous floor spaces, and has the flexibility to provide almost limitless spatial layouts.

By using a series of predesigned, interchangeable componentry, the Hickory System can be scaled from low rise to high rise, from large to small aspect ratio and to cyclonic and earthquake regions as required - translating system flexibility into cost efficiency.

The Hickory System is a state of the art structural system that integrates the core, shear walls, bathrooms and facade of a building into the structure which is then built ex-situ and in parallel with on-site works.

Hickory’s patented facade system allows the delivery of an integrated facade and structural module that is manufactured in sections and reassembled on site without compromise to the visual appearance of the building architecture.

An interlocking and sealing system has been engineered into the technology, designed to minimise onsite work. This enables the building facades to be installed in the factory and precisely set to the building datum. This approach revolutionises the conventional building model by minimising onsite material handling and achieving lock-up as the modules are locked into place.

By managing the facade procurement in conjunction with the structure, risks associated with on time facade delivery are removed from the critical path of installation at the build site, and moved to the more manageable realm of the factory shop floor.

Fully finished, fitted and pressure tested bathroom pod with leakfree GRC base

Load bearing columns provide continuos structural support in high-rise buildings

Engineered light-weight concrete floor

Service penetration

Opening for louvered windows fitted in-factory

Pre-attached building facade

Connection plates

Cross bracing where required

Bathroom pod fully enclosed and fitted with services, lighting and wall finishes

Flexible Structural unit size, scalable from small to large aspect ratio

Interchangeable componentry allows for flexible floor plates

Unlike modular construction the Hickory System allows freedom of scale and poses no restriction on building layouts or apartment size and configuration

Technology. Building Information ModellingHickory utilises Building Information Modelling (BIM) to unitise architectural plans into a modular form, map structure and consolidate spatials in order to achieve workable shop drawings and a bill of materials for manufacture.

Our use of BIM software enables:

• greater levels of process collaboration;

• greater level of product visualization;

• integration and information sharing; and

• improved asset maintenance post project completion.

As prefabrication requires more information to be passed over and handled in the design phase, Hickory’s BIM software allows project collaboration between all stake-holders, ensuring the end result meets the client’s needs and specifications upfront.

BIM assists to keep projects on track by expediting design resolution during the initial stages, and providing project visualisation for the manufacturing team, suppliers, subcontractors and logistics team to follow during the prefabrication and installation phase.

Post occupancy, the operational benefits of using BIM are infinite. Hickory’s BIM models present asset managers with a long-term tool to assist with managing building operations more efficiently, providing owners with complete, fully-populated models that enable effective maintenance throughout the building’s life.

ERP System automates activity and facilitates information flow

Inventory Management

Facade installation

Supply Chain

Unit Assembly

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Architect Bill of Materials

BIM 3D Model

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SUPPLY & INSTALL

Hickory’s sophisticated technology limits waste, increases quality and keeps the project on time and on budget. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) guides each step of the project sequence by managing information flow and processes. Hickory uses ERP software, which feeds project information and the bill of materials through to the machinery, and manages key functions including supply chain, payroll, manufacturing program, inventory management and financial forecasting.

Enterprise Resource Planning

Skeletal structural model of building designed with Hickory System technology

Faster Construction

The Hickory System allows a parallel track construction programme, generally reducing construction time by over 50% compared with traditional concrete and column construction methods.

On and off site construction programmes can be accelerated with careful planning and prototyping, providing speed and certainty meeting construction timelines. While on site preparation and foundations are being laid, the structure is being fabricated to final completion off-site.

Construction delays due to inclement weather or LTIs are virtually eliminated with this delivery model, as the majority of on-site work is fully contained and safely performed behind the attached facade.

Parallel tracking for faster construction

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Sustainability. Quantifiable sustainability

Environmental ComparisonHickory Building Systems vs Conventional Construction

The Hickory System is pioneering sustainable construction, utilising lighter, less carbon intensive materials, which allow for enhanced recyclability of components and reduced wastage, consuming less water and less energy, thus lowering the facility’s carbon footprint.

Hickory embraces Environmentally Sustainable Development (ESD) principles and has considered ‘whole of life’ aspects within the context of our delivery model. The following factors contribute to the Hickory System demonstrating better environmental characteristics for the whole of life compared to conventional or modular systems.

• All manufacturing is completed within a controlled environment resulting in 90% less waste than conventional construction methodology.

• Approximately 98% of all factory-generated waste is recycled through our ISO 14001 certified waste disposal company.

• Efficiencies gained via the use of moulds and computerised cutting machinery means that materials ordering for all stock is accurate ensuring excess is kept to a minimum and any material that is in excess is warehoused and reused on the next project.

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• Deliveries to the building site are considerably less than using a conventional method of construction, thus reducing use of fuel for delivery vehicles and reducing levels of dust dependent on the site.

• Minimal painting is required on site thereby eliminating the risk of paint washout into storm water.

• Minimal plastering is required on site, which again limits storm water contamination from plaster mixing.

• Bathroom pods within the modules are 100% recyclable as they can be disconnected and relocated for perpetual use.

• The Hickory Sysytem more easily facilitates partial replacement or addition to existing structures if future expansion becomes necessary.

By placing sustainable construction at the heart of Hickory’s product offering, we are securing our future and providing a better alternative to site and materials repatriation.

The Hickory System reduces waste, resources, material, embodied energy, transport energy, cost and construction time while increasing recyclability.

*Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute Research **University of Melbourne Research

Cost Savings.

Financing a Hickory System Project

Controlled Processes Control Costs

There are numerous advantages to banks lending to Hickory System projects.

Reduced construction times significantly lower market exposure of lending institutions, potentially by as much as 50%.

Hickory’s construction process has less risk of delay due to weather, which is a common impediment in traditional sequential construction methods.

With trade work enclosed within the structural system, Hickory has greater control of the critical path, with greater assurance of meeting deadlines.

A 40-storey residential tower can be completed in just 12 months, allowing financiers more opportunity to re-allocate their property portfolios, servicing more clients and projects with the same underlying capital base.

Hickory Group maintains direct dialogue with all of Australia’s major banks. Bank funding on Hickory System projects is generally consistent with funding on other developments using traditional construction. Time frames and interest calculations will generally be significantly more favourable using the Hickory System.

Applying the manufacturing process to construction gives Hickory the advantage of being able to accurately cost out the amount and cost of materials to be used in the construction, enabling Hickory to provide a more accurate build cost while minimizing the variations that may occur during the length of the project

The Hickory System provides a number of ancillary cost savings including:

• lower financing costs - an accelerated construction program delivers savings to the client in the form of reduced financing charges, bank charges and interest on loans taken to fund the project;

• decreased preliminary costs for head contractors and consultants;

• virtual elimination of costs arising from fit out variations as design is confirmed up front; and

• reduction in defects and defect rectification due to stringent quality assurance and controlled work environment.

*Comparison made using the example of Hickory’s 3:East development project with a project value of $30 million and a construction value of $14 million, versus if the same project was built by Hickory using conventional delivery methods.

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CENTVM

Preston, Vic

Higher QualityOne of the strengths of Hickory’s manufacturing process is the strict quality control processes and procedures in place to ensure each and every product that rolls off the assembly line is manufactured to the highest quality standards.

With the Hickory System, quality control begins on the factory floor and does not end until the building has been completed on site. And because every structural unit is inspected on the shop floor, any minor issues are ironed out during the manufacturing process – limiting defects and the time and costs involved in defect rectification.

Greater flexibilityThe Hickory System is a highly versatile construction solution which can be used for a range of developments, from high-end apartments and hotel rooms to more affordable social housing, hospitals, schools, correctional facilities and remote mining villages.

Hickory adapts to your project and stays true to the architectural design, not the other way around, avoiding expensive changes throughout the build.

This flexibility is a key differentiator of the Hickory System and is what sets us apart from modular builders who are restricted to short life, low build accommodation projects.

Our cantilevering capabilities and unique façade handling treatments also allow for more complex detail on high-rise construction than any other prefabricated system.

The Hickory System is engineered for tower projects, and has no theoretical height limitation.

Flexibility is a key differentiator of the Hickory System and is what sets us apart from modular builders who are restricted to short life, low build accommodation projects.The Hickory System is engineered for tower projects, and has no theoretical height limitation.

Architectural Freedom

LITTLE HERO

Melbourne, Vic

Benchmarking Australian safety standards

The Hickory Safety System is certified to AS/NZS 4801:2001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System and also certified to the Office of The Federal Safety Commission OHS Accreditation Scheme.

We encourage a culture of “Think.Act.Safe”, and with almost all of our work carried out on the ground floor of a factory, the benefits of the Hickory System provide a safer environment for employees and contractors alike. The significant risk associated with work at height on traditional construction sites is dramatically reduced.

The Hickory System reduces the risk of falls to the head contractor’s workforce as the structure arrives to site with finished façades and balconies. Therefore minimal work is required on the building edge as all on-site work takes place behind the protection of the pre-installed facade.

Fitting out in an enclosed, controlled environment ensures that safety compliance is easily monitored and enforced. Potential hazards are more visible than on a busy conventional multi-storey construction site. Due to the controlled environment safety issues are quickly identified and resolved.

All workers undertake a detailed safety induction prior to commencing work. They are closely monitored by a full time Safety Supervisor for adherence to safety, quality and environmental controls.

Safety.

The Hickory System reduces the risk of falls to the head contractor’s workforce as the structure arrives to site with finished façades and balconies. Therefore minimal work is required on the building edge as all on-site work takes place behind the protection of the pre-installed facade.

DUFFY PRIMARY SCHOOL (ACT) Finishing and fitout taking place in factory

Hickory Building Systems Projects.

Little Hero, Melbourne 3:East, RichmondHickory’s first prefab project using the UB System 7 level Fender Katsalidis designed building up in 11 days

One9Moonee PondsEco-friendly 9 level apartment building erected on site in 5 days

Centvm, Preston

Pegasus, Mitcham

The Nicholson, East Coburg Duffy Primary, Duffy ACT

Stella Adara Apartments, Success WA

Concorde South, South Hedland

Modular building achieves flexible floorplans and maximum light and space

Boutique residential project using the UB modular system

Extensive $50 million social and affordable housing project by Places Victoria

Curtin University study confirms benefits of Hickory systems on WA Department of Housing project

Landmark 6 level project delivered in remote regional Australia

Interactive Primary School learning centre installed in 1 day

The Schaller StudioArt Series Hotel, Bendigo 128 room Art Series hotel erected in just 6 days

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