This project consists of a four storey mixed-use development, comprising of 6 residential apartments and 4 ‘services apartments’ as the commercial tenancy for the development.

The development intends to cater for all household types of the local community including families, couples, aging in place, extended families and multigenerational families. The design provides high quality and high amenity apartments with access to northern natural daylight, cross ventilation, outlooks to Norfolk Street , private balcony and courtyard spaces, with the intention to support and encourage activity and neighbourhood life.

The proposal is a considered response that is an architecturally designed, with high levels of amenity through large living spaces, access to natural daylight, cross ventilation, private outdoor spaces, inclusion of communal area in association with deep soil area and planting.

Setbacks, overshadowing, visual amenity are demonstrated in an architectural approach that commits to it natural inclusion in the Norfolk Street streetscape and wider urban character of Fremantle.

Bernard Seeber Architects are commissioned to provide services for mixed-use development for a site within the City of Fremantle.

Services being provided include:

Management

Architectural

Interior Design

The appropriateness of the architecture is intended to meet the objectives of: land tenure, density, place context and scheme objectives, with the built form being responsive to size and geometry of the site.

Bernard Seeber Architects are engaged by the City of Fremantle to design a new Public Facilities at South Beach Fremantle.

The new Public Facilities incorporate a sharing of facilities by different community user groups. Accommodating internal changerooms, showering and toilet facilities with consideration given to universal accessibility, family, inclusion and connectivity.

The new facility is to accomodate change rooms with showers and toilets for all users.

We are providing full consultant services to the replacement project being:

Management

Architecture

Superintendent Services

Works are due for completion June 2025

The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage commissioned us to provide Architectural Services for the upgrading of the existing power supply to the Fremantle Prison.

The Prison is included for high significance on State and UNESCO World Heritage Lists.

Scope of works include:

Providing emergency power in the event of a site-wide power failure,

Installing a new site main switchboard (SMSB) to suit the requirements of the site,

Ensuring the location of the emergency generator and SMSB are compatible with the long-term goals of the car park redesign as outlined in the Fremantle Prison Landscape Management Plan.

Connecting the existing site infrastructure in compliance with applicable standards, and,

Accurately recording and mapping all existing and proposed service lines associated with the project, for ease of ongoing maintenance.

Works are due for competition July 2025

We were commissioned as a result of the successful submission to the Department’s Architectural Design Competition which attracted 79 entries.

We were offered a contract to apply the design to 14 new public homes planned for construction on seven battleaxe lots located behind heritage homes in Hilton.

Our submission conformed strictly to budget, stakeholders’ requirements, and program.  The project is innovative and addresses the current housing debate with a clear solution.

We have achieved the Client specific brief that requires sustainable, adaptable occupancies within a planned low cost maintenance program.  We propose contemporary space symbiotically related to a construction technology based in the regular use of materials, their formats and achieving qualities of occupancy within economies of technology.

The submission proposes a contemporary Architecture that embraces both the prevailing Hilton Community and the broader Community living culture where open clear accommodation connects with the environment.

Our approach and design compliment the existing ‘garden’ suburb through retention and augmentation of the mature planted landscape while retaining existing built forms and integrating with the established community.

We have added value through an architectural approach that is environmentally passive, of low energy embodiment and consumption.  We have also employed the use of a design that is modular and repeatable with forms that facilitate prefabrication and achieve cost benefits.

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The Department of Finance on behalf of Churchlands Senior High School engaged us to document and administer the installation of a 400kVA Solar PV system for the generation of electricity.

The roof mounted PV Panel installation is across four buildings with localised Inverter Stations feeding existing Electrical Boards and thus being integrated into the site power system.

We have coordinated Electrical and Structural engineering design and documentation into documents that facilitated competitive tendering and fixed sum contract engagement.

We are currently administering the management of the installation.
School operations and occupancy generally is being maintained within a detailed Program and Safety Management Plan.

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The refurbishment of this existing Cold Storage Facility includes upgrading building steel structures to achieve compliance with current Codes, roof cladding , and replacement of Ammonia Refrigerant Reticulation.

We provided design, documentation, and management services to this complex project.

Operations and occupancy generally was maintained within a detailed Program and Safety Management Plan. Steelwork, mechanical, and electrical contractors coordinated to achieve a successful outcome.

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The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage commissioned us to advise in relation to its Conservation of Perimeter Walls, Walkways, and Guard Towers at Fremantle Prison.

The Prison is included for high significance on State and UNESCO World Heritage Lists.

Works required careful removal of some added features, however in the main the retention and refurbishment of the built history is being achieved.

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This is a medium density affordable housing project. A total of 16 single bedroom self contained housing units have been accommodated on the site which is located on a major public transport route with easy access to tertiary institutions and City of Fremantle facilities.

Each housing unit has a compact and contemporary floorplate that maximises solar orientation and prevailing ventilation breezes.

The South Street Project is due for completion in first quarter of 2019.

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The Sister Martin Kelly Centre, located at the Mercycare’s Catherine McCauley Centre in Wembley is one of several high significant Places included in the State Heritage Listing for the site. Bernard Seeber Pty Ltd were engaged to provide services associated with significant Conservation works through Restoration and Adaption of this major cultural asset.

The project scope included -

External Facade Conservation Internal Conservation and Adaption Stonework Conservation Works Window Conservation Works Crucifix Reconstruction Works Roof Reconstruction Works

This project is due for Completion early 2018.

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In mid-2016 Bernard Seeber Pty Ltd were engaged by the BMW to provide consultancy associated with providing significant remedial works to the existing roof cladding of the Fremantle Port side of the Maritime Museum.

We undertook specialist reporting to identify the causes of the extensive paint coating failure and associated localised substrate failure leading to water penetration at the complex curve portion of the building. The works included the application of a new coating to the roof and specific substrate remedial works.

We researched and reported on the preceding decade of technical reporting and progressed an affordable, warrantied resolution. The execution of this occurred within a strictly monitored methodology given the safe work place management requirements and controlled technical application of coatings.

The remedial solution has been integrated into the building maintenance program with the intention of preventing further deterioration.

This project is due for completion by December, 2017