Who owns hansen yuncken

Peter Salveson, CEO With a year career across both operational and executive roles, Peter has honed a unique ability to transform business strategy into solid design and construction outcomes.

What we do. Management Systems. Job Applications. Positions Vacant. HY Insights. The family-owned construction company - responsible for many of the most high-profile projects in Melbourne and Adelaide of the past century - is proud to remain a specialist builder.

The family ties have been strengthened in recent weeks with the appointment of a fourth generation of the Hansen family to the board. Richard Hansen joins his father, Peter, on the board of seven, along with a new independent director, Michael Deegan.

The Yuncken connection is no longer there and today the company is a partnership of the Hansen family and Sydney's Beslich family, which became a shareholder in a restructure that followed Peter Hansen buying out other family members in The restructure also saw its head office split between Melbourne and Adelaide, where chief executive Peter Kennedy is based.

The company's financial result for , expected to be lodged this month, will show an increase in profit and revenue. However, Hansen Yuncken has a conservative approach to revenue growth, which is also reflected in its attitude to property development. Both projects combined the use of traditional equipment such as stiff-legged cranes for materials handling and new technologies such as precast panels, Favco cranes, electric passenger and materials hoists and concrete trucks, which were only just making their way on to building sites.

As well as being the largest project undertaken by Hansen Yuncken at the time it was built, the Alfred Hospital Main Ward Block incorporated a major innovation in its foundation. The site's sandy geology posed problems because the design called for an excavation to a depth of 10 to 12 metres, but the ground water surface level was at about three to four metres.

Max Hansen said "We used a well point system around the site to suck water out of ground and drain it before excavating narrow, deep trenches with a purpose-built excavator, which were then progressively filled with Bentonite slurry. We then used massive precast panels - we had the biggest mobile cranes in the country at the time - that were dropped into the ground through the Bentonite slurry.

Then we worked around and tied the whole lot together, so the bottom formed a solid concrete raft about 2. It was designed to settle as it got bigger, and it settled about five to seven centimetres overall. An ordinary steel-framed building sits on top of the raft. It consists of a three-dimensional steel frame - m long, 47m wide and 27m high - supported on a dish-shaped raft foundation approximately two metres deep at the centre, to accommodate soil for tropical plants.

The erection of all 28 trusses, which carried glass panes and mechanical systems such as hydraulic spray pipes and hoisting apparatus to provide maintenance access, was achieved without a single breakage.

Within the structure, suspended walkways and viewing platforms allow visitors to look down into a natural setting more reminiscent of a tropical island than a garden in the southern state. The completed building project was praised as a tribute to the site manager John Lamb. It involved the conversion of the ground and first floors of the existing Adelaide Railway Station building into gaming areas, and the second floor into administration, kitchen and restaurant facilities.

The building was heritage listed and had to remain operational during the redevelopment process, with trains continuing to serve the basement level. There were workers on the job to speed construction, which was delivered under a fast-track design-and-construct method.

The design team remained on site throughout the construction period and at stages were documenting what had already been constructed. The largest of these contracts was in South-West Sydney and covered discrete projects at schools. In response to this challenge, Hansen Yuncken developed a sophisticated tailor-made information management system which provided the real-time data needed to concurrently design and deliver on works of this scale and complexity, efficiently and within an extraordinarily tight program.

The Hassell Architects designed development included residential apartments and townhouses, and premium retail and commercial spaces that cover a hectare site. The 60,m 2 retail offering is split over tow open-plan levels with interconnecting bridges and walkways. It accommodates the Harbour Town flagship Brand Direct and retail tenancies, including restaurants, cafes, entertainment venues, speciality shops and a diverse range of fashion, lifestyle and homewares outlets. The building extracts about , litres of black toilet water a day from the sewer in Little Collins Street, and it, along with the sewage generated on-site, is processed by a multi-water treatment plant to filter water and send solids back to the sewer.

The water is treated by a micro-filtration system to create A-grade clean water suitable for all non-drinking uses, such as water cooling, plant watering and toilet flushing. Hansen Yuncken contributed significant innovation during this project to optimise the way ESD initiatives were selected and implemented.