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5 Farrell Place
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Canberra ACT 2601

Completely renovated in 2022, 5 Farrell Place is an exemplar of Willemsen’s commitment to rigorous maintenance and comprehensive building upgrades. Set in a core Canberra CBD location with sweeping views and class-leading energy efficiency, the property offers premium workplaces for a variety of organisation sizes from 125 Square metres.

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In defiance of the standardised commercial office glass box, 5 Farrell Place presents a striking and invigorating form, affording the opportunity for unique and visually exciting workplaces to suit a variety of private enterprise and government organisations from 125 square metre up to 7,260 square metre.


Completely refurbished in 2022, the building welcomes its visitors and occupants with a new foyer and landscaped piazza with the latest in end of trip facilities and vertical transport.
 

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Elegant design and craftsmanship
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Enduring premium quality materials including Portuguese limestone, Carrara marble, and oak timber have been blended in a reflection of Willemsen’s design vernacular to create a professional premium quality aesthetic.

Visually exciting and highly flexible floor plates are enveloped by a high-performance curtain wall facade offering unobstructed, spectacular views of the Brindabella Mountain range from most levels.

With only four internal columns and an efficient rear side core, each 865 square metre floor provides 100% core office space and exceptional fit out design flexibility. Occupant densities of 1:11 square metre are easily supported with a range of options for subdivision from 125 square metre.
Located in the western CBD core, the building benefits from convenient and efficient access via road, public bus transport, bicycle path infrastructure and the stage 2 light rail.
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Modern, accessible facilities
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The integrated ground-level cafe and north-facing landscape piazza provide a year-round alfresco and indoor space for informal gatherings, complementing the myriad other food and shopping facilities in the immediate area.

Parking for up to 53 cars is provided in a functional three level basement and is complemented by several large public parking facilities in the immediate area. Additional facilities - including storage and end of trip - are provided in the basement.

Building services are designed to support multi tenanting, and are specified with appropriate electrical metering infrastructure, communication points of presence and HVAC plant, with fine grained 80 square metre zones for precise heat-load control.
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Embedded sustainability
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A proud reflection of Willemsen commitment to environmental sustainability, 5 Farrell Place has consistently been rated as one of Australia’s highest performing buildings on NABERS energy all of building basis. Into the future the continuation of this performance is assured with 70Kwh of solar power generation capacity, leading edge building services and active energy tuning and optimisation. (The current NABERS rating has been impacted by the low occupancy of the building and is not representative of the energy efficiency of the building at normal occupancy levels.)
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Fitout Level 9
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New architecturally designed ready to occupy or customized workplaces.
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All-inclusive leasing deals offer organisations the alternative of ready to occupy new workplaces, architecturally designed to meet the requirements of modern flexible working culture. Alternatively custom designed and built workplaces can be created to meet unique organisational requirements on full refurbished floors.
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Passive Energy Efficiency
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Often overlooked in favour of services-engineered systems, passive energy conservation is the core component that determines the energy performance of a building.

As simple as the idea of insulation and air sealing would appear, it is inherently complex and difficult to implement, requiring a high level of technical skill and design documentation, followed by rigorous monitoring during construction.

At Willemsen, our in-house design team and construction managers are attuned to this level of detail and experienced in its delivery, understanding the pivotal effect that air quality has on a building’s lifelong performance.

In the current generation of buildings, we strive for dual layer air sealing, double glazing and insulation of all exterior surfaces.
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Indoor Environmental Quality
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Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) refers to the quality of the indoor environment within and around buildings and structures, especially relating to the health, comfort, and productivity of building occupants. From design to operation, we focus on the factors that impact IEQ.
Our buildings incorporate complex BACnet building management systems that continuously monitor temperature, air velocity and humidity at multiple points in the building air cycle. They combine this information with carbon dioxide readings and outside air temperature to modulate services preferencing maximum filtered fresh air where outside conditions make it appropriate.

In our construction and facilities maintenance practices, we have detailed specifications implemented by our staff and contractors to control particulate matter, airborne microbials, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and formaldehyde.

Our buildings prioritise natural illumination (100% core office), employing lighting systems that are built to work with task-based lighting, providing energy efficient fine grained lighting control.
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Water-sensitive Design
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Water-sensitive Design
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Water-sensitive design encompasses the capture of natural rainfall, its storage purification and reuse on site rather than its immediate release to stormwater networks.

Water falling on paved terraces and roofing structures is captured and fed through sediment filtration to underground storage tanks. This can be further filtered on demand and used for a variety of non-potable applications around the building.

To optimise the benefit of collected water, our buildings incorporate water-efficient, WELLS-rated appliances throughout with water-efficient irrigation systems. We avoid the use of evaporative cooling where possible.