Business Name: Shade to Order Pty Ltd
Project Title: The Lucky Hotel
Location: Lucky Country Hotel, Newcastle NSW
Name Of Fabric: Naizil Supplier: Nolans UDA
Project Description: 133 sq mtr awning along both street faces of the Hotel. The awning runs 25 mtrs along Hunter Street then another 25mtrs along Crown street. The fabric high frequency welded together and is one continuous piece. The traditional frames were manufactured from 75mm x 75mm SHS alloy to reduce weight on the fixing points.
What is the purpose of this project? The client requested a traditional looking awning on a well known hotel. The hotel had a metal awning on both street faces in the early 1900s and the owner wanted to continue this theme but with a lighter structure.
What is unique or complex about this project? The hotel was extensively damaged by the Newcastle earthquake in 1989. Repairs were extensive including structural steel ring frame inside the hotel to hold the walls in place and stabilise the whole structure. After the earthquake the rendering on the outside wall on the Hunter street side was hastily done resulting in a wall that was up to 300mm out of line. This required careful measuring and allowances made to every frame on this side, the same was required for the fabric.
Was there anything different or special about this project? The frames on the Hunter street side had to be attached to structural steel inside the hotel. The walls were constructed from bricks and given the Hotel's age and the fact it suffered extensive damage in the earth quake there was no way the frames could be attached to these walls. The first half of the wall we had to magnetic drill through the structural steel frame inside the hotel and use special cantilever supports to carry these fastenings to the outside brickwork. On the other half we had to core drill through brick work and original iron universal beams that had concrete poured on the inside. We chemical anchored our studs past the iron beam and into the concrete. The concrete was 800mm in from the outside wall and there was a 200mm void in between. Attaching the frame to the outside walls was extremely difficult and had lots of engineering challenges.
What were the results of the project? The result was an awning along the complete outside of the hotel giving patrons a waterproof covered area to enjoy.
How did you contribute to the project: We provided the client with a traditional awning manufactured from modern day materials. We solved the attachment and wall miss- alinement issues and manufactured the awning in one continuous section.
Other relevant information: The hotel was built in the late 1800s, and after the earthquake nothing was square. There were two balconies that the awning had to fit underneath, one in Hunter street and the other in Crown street. The Hunter street balcony was 260mm lower than the Crow
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