Tall & Urban News

Developer Brookfield has been awarded a contract by Chevron Australia to build a 29-story office tower at Elizabeth Quay in Perth. Located on the corner of The Esplanade and Barrack Street, the building will serve as Chevron Australia’s headquarters; they received development approval for the site from the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority in December 2018.

The building will feature more than 54,000 square meters of office floor space and incorporates exhibition spaces, a lobby and conference facilities. The lower levels will comprise childcare and gymnasium space with retail tenancies and café/restaurants on the ground floor, to activate large areas of open plaza facing into Elizabeth Quay.

Chevron has committed to lease approximately 78 percent of the tower as the anchor tenant for a 15-year period. Construction on the tower is scheduled to commence in mid-2020 and is due for completion in 2023.

Western Australia premier Mark McGowan said: “Around 1,000 jobs will be created and local industry will benefit with a major flow-on of work…We’ve been committed to making Elizabeth Quay a success, and this development will go a long way to making sure this waterfront asset is a feature of our city for decades.”

Western Australian Planning Minister Rita Saffioti said: “It is great to see the area taking shape with Far East Consortium’s Towers development recently reaching practical completion and CA & Associates’ EQ West development expected to commence works on their site later this year. She added, “hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money was used to create Elizabeth Quay, and this Government is 100 percent committed to making it work and becoming something all Western Australians can be proud of.”

For more on this story go to World Construction Network.