TOWNSEND 360

The Townsend Group The Townsend Group

50 Barry Avenue Mortdale NSW 2223 T: +61 2 9533 4066 F: +61 2 9153 8504 E: [email protected] www. townsendgroup.com.au TOWNSEND 360

TOWNSEND 360

Completing the circle from concept to completion

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22 TOWNSEND 360 60 Years in the Making

In 1934, C.D.Townsend spun a new cowling for Charles Kingsfor d-Smith’s legendary Lockheed Altair aircraft, the Lady Southern Cross.

At 18 years of age he was still a young man, but already well enough regarded to be given charge of the largest metal spinning unit in the country, and a prestigious assignment for the nation’s leading flyer.

The work made Kingsford-Smith’s famed crossing of the Pacific Ocean possible, and given the Altair’s experimental air craft status at the time, was described as “a triumph for Australian engineering.” Mr C.D. Townsend (above) pioneer metalworker and founder of The Townsend Group, and (below) some early staff members take a break. Twelve years later, Mr Townsend formed his own Personal ownership, disciplined management and metal spinning company, and began to build one of timely investment in skills and equipment have kept Australia’s most successful sheet metal engineering the company at the forefront of its field: engineering groups. metal systems for the building and construction,

For more than 60 years, the Townsend group has food, transport, automotive and general manu- enjoyed steady growth. facturing industries.

33 TOWNSEND 360 Townsend today

Townsend’s leading market position has been earned through an awareness of customer needs, adaptability and innovation in design, a culture of quality in manufacturing, and first rate customer service.

Still family owned and operated, with an emphasis on personal skills, personal commitment and personal responsibility, Townsend offers clients access to outstanding front office systems, advanced fabrication facilities, and - driving it all - a tremendous team of people: ‘The people for superior metalwor k.’ Mr David G. Townsend, Chairman of the Townsend Group.

The Townsend Group’s manufacturing facilities now cover more than 13,000 square metres over three sites, and are equipped with the very latest in design and manufacturing technology (see Page 33).

Work won and processed through this plant has led to many engineering awards, both national and international. Awards which recognise the simplicity of Townsend’s engineering solutions, the rigour of its manufacturing processes, and the quality of its on-site build and installation services.

Through 60 years Townsend has developed an overar ching ability - to complete the circle of services required to drive client projects from concept to completion, and warrant in-situ performance accordingly.

We call this total service concept: Townsend 360.

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Today, Townsend’s overarching ability - to supply the circle of services required to drive client projects from concept to completion, and warrant them accordingly – is called Townsend 360.

TOWNSEND 360 - TOWNSEND 90 - Quality Assurance and Warranties Design and Engineering

Ultimately, the quality of our work can only be Our designers and engineers use innovation as measured by the in-place performance of Townsend a tool to simplify - to produce solutions that designed, engineered, manufactured, integrated and elude others. This process leads to higher levels of installed products or systems. engineering elegance, mor e efficient manufacture, reduced costs and improved in-place performance. So where we have been involved at every stage t Iis in this sector that the quality of we warrant the in-place performance of Townsend’s thinking and experience our built-up systems and our delivers real advantages for clients. installation wor k accordingly.

TOWNSEND 270 - TOWNSEND 180 - Integration and Installation Manufacture and Supply

Because we aim to provide a Our continuing investment in complete solution, we provide integration advanced manufacturing technologies services to turn components into finished products gives our customers access to the most efficient and systems.The use of pre-finished systems in the fabrication pr ocesses and highest standards construction industries greatly improves efficiencies of quality. We have also developed agreements and lowers on-site costs during construction. with many of the world’s most advanced

These systems may include third-party materials commodity suppliers to meet more diverse such as glass panel, sourced to meet client needs. client needs efficiently.

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66 TOWNSEND 360 Metal Facades

The Townsend Group was one of the first companies in Australia to install composite aluminium panel systems for external cladding through the development of Melbourne’s Knoxfield Centre. Even by today’s standards, the project called for large vertical, horiz- ontal and curved panels up to 4 metres long. The

Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s new centre at Ultimo in Sydney, was also clad by the Townsend

Group, with Townsend responsible for the composite aluminium cladding to the flat and curved sections of the facade and for the glazed awning at street level.

Townsend also supplied and installed the complex facade for the Darling Island mixed development on Darling H arbour, including all the external cladding, balconies, internal wall cladding, awnings, soffits, stainless steel columns cladding and special finishes.

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The rejuvenation of Australia’s inner city suburbs has seen the development of a number of high quality residential developments on harbour foreshores and industrial land.

Saunders Wharf, in Sydney’s Darling H arbour precinct is one of the most recent. Designed by HPA for the developers, Mir vac, Saunders Wharf is a luxur y waterfront property with 27 three bedroom residences over limited whar f-level commercial space.

Townsend Group took responsibility for the supply, manufacture and installation of the complex facade, designed to make the most of sweeping views whilst allowing owners to protect their privacy.

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1010 TOWNSEND 360 Metal Facades

Melbourne’s Federation Square was designed to provide a confident and intriguing town centre for the city. Architect Don Bates says: We were interested in developing a system through a triangular grid that would allo w us to use small sections of sandstone, zinc and glass to create a lot of variation.

Housing many of the city’s leading cultural institutions

Federation Square is also Melbourne’s major meeting place for civic celebrations, sporting, and similar events.

Renowned for its ability to work with any metal, Townsend

Group won the contract to fabricate the 3,000 zinc panels that form part of the complex facade for this multi-structure landmark project.

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1212 TOWNSEND 360 Granite Facades

Melbourne’s 101 Collins Street is a landmark office development, with 57 floors of granite and glass, attracting many of the city’s leading firms and companies.

Completed in 2003, this single tower development designed by architects Denton Corker Marshall, set new standards for office accommodation in the heart of the city.

This Grocon project required close collaboration between the Townsend Group and glazing contractor.

Townsend developed a square edged extruded aluminium system to hold the granite panels, and prefabricated sections that were craned into position for this highly successful project.

The Reserve Bank in Sydney appeared little altered after the Townsend Group won the contract to refurbish the facade of this heritage listed building.

Townsend designed a framing system and built up a new granite facade to overclad the old one, which was crumbling, then fixed the new facade into position; extending the existing windo w sills to match in anodised aluminium. Result: no noticeable change!

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1414 TOWNSEND 360 Glass Facades

The Townsend Group’s design and installation of a

12 metre tall, high point fixed glazed system to create the foyer curtain wall for Zurich Financial Services’ head office building in North Sydney, became one of the Group’s engineering awar d winning projects.

Townsend took responsibility for engineering and manufacturing the components for the wall system – using post tensioned stainless steel trusses, cast stainless steel mode connections and cast stainless spider assemblies to support the toughened glass panels.

In two further contracts for the same development,

Townsend engineered and installed the foyer’s striking free-standing scissor staircase – with deep carved and sand blasted glass balustrade panels – and built the fritt patterned, cantilevered glazed bus shelters that run the length of the exterior facade.

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1616 TOWNSEND 360 Sunshades & Awnings

Architect Harr y Seidler ’s defining commercial office tower design for Grosvenor Place in Sydney became the first in a series of buildings for which the Townsend Group engineered large-scale sunblade systems.

Townsend produced and installed more than 900 of the six metre-wide sunblades for Grosvenor Place, then went on to provide similar systems for the Riverside development in Brisbane, Shell House in

Melbourne and the Capita building in Sydney’s

Castlereagh Street.

Among many awnings in all materials produced by

Townsend are those for Sydney’s Centre Point, the

ABC Building in Ultimo and the Zurich building in North Sydney.

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1818 TOWNSEND 360 Louvres

For domestic applications, Townsend manufactures and installs the Metzen Mi55 Louvre System, an Australian system designed by Paul Metzen.

This elegant system incorporates extr uded aluminium blades in frames which invisibly house the drive belts and gears that operate the louvres through a single external contr ol knob.

Townsend manufactured and installed more than

3,100 square metres of Metzen panels for the Chevron Redevelopment in St Kilda, Melbourne; and is currently supplying a similar number for the staged development of Sydney’s Breakfast Point – a large scale, luxury, waterfront residential development.

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2020 TOWNSEND 360 Roofs & Ceilings

A joint Commonwealth/State Government initiative, the National Maritime Museum at Sydney’s Darling

Harbour contains a replica of Her Majesty’s Bark, Endeavour, on which Captain James Cook first charted the east coast of Australia, making settlement possible.

Architect Philip Cox’s soaring design for the building, includes a series of sail-like roof structures, for which the Townsend Group engineered and produced a unique aluminium panel system.

Townsend has engineered and produced roofs and ceilings to meet diverse requirements. When

Coca-Cola established its South Pacific headquarters at Frenchs Forest in Sydney, Townsend produced a suspended, perforated wave-formation ceiling and matching feature wall to suggest effervescence.

Special ceilings, tiles and ceiling features have also been produced for the new Parliament House, the High

Court of Australia, the National Gallery and – to meet exacting sound specifications – the National Accoustics Laboratory.

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2222 TOWNSEND 360 Roofs & Ceilings

Designed by internationally renowned architect, Sir

Norman Foster, Singapore’s Expo MRT Station provide a ‘space-age’ point of entry to the city’s expo precinct.

The shell-like roof structure, upported by two Y-shaped columns built outside the platform area, allows for a column-free interior span of 70 metres over the platform area, while the large exterior disc covers station lifts and other facilities.

To help bring Sir Norman’s vision to fruition, the

Townsend Group engineered and supplied more than

600 mirror polished stainless ceiling ‘tiles’ and the titanium bullnosed facia to the roof.

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24 TOWNSEND 360 Balustrades & Fittings

The Townsend Group’s 6,000 square metre production facility at Mortdale in Sydney includes state-of-the art production systems with CNC Laser cutting, robotic welding, Vee Cutting and many other automated processes for highly accurate, fast and cost effective fabrication.

Using these, and many other complemetary processes,

Townsend is able to meet a wide array of client design requirements, including one-off balustrades and special fitting for retail and commercial centres.

Among many projects of this kind, Townsend has engineered and supplied balustrades, sills and column cladding for the Westpoint Shopping Centre at

Blacktown in Sydney, more than 3.5 kilometre of stairway and balcony balustrading for the Star City

Casino in Darling Harbour, and for the Sydney

International Airport - where Townsend supplied stainless steel handrails, sills and skirtings. The glass and stainless steel staircase was designed, manufactured and installed for engineers Connel Wagner.

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2626 TOWNSEND 360 Bespoke contracts

Townsend greatly simplified the component require- ments and fabrication of the stainless steel wind fairing to Hong Kong’s Tsing Ma Bridge, linking the city with the airport.

This award winning contract called for the fabrication of more than 10,000 components for pre-assembly near the bridge site prior to erection.

Engineering specific systems to meet the challenges posed by innovative design, Townsend also supplied the aluminium and glass curtain wall for the Sydney

Airport Control Tower.

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2828 TOWNSEND 360 Bespoke contracts

The construction of the Epping to Chatswood

Railway in Sydney is the largest publicly funded infrastructure project underway in New South Wales.

Due for completion in 2008, the 12.5 kilometre underground passenger line will include four new underground stations at Epping, Macquarie

University, Macquarie Park and Delhi Road.

Contractors AW Edwards appointed Townsend to design, engineer, manufacture and install the new station linings. This includes the support systems, louvres, smoke glass baffles forming part of the ventilation system, vitreous enamel panel to public areas, patterned 304 stainless steel to station cladding and featured ceilings, 316 stainless steel to lifts and escalators, and composite cladding to service buildings.

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3030 TOWNSEND 360 Custom Made

The Townsend Group undertakes numerous contracts for the supply of custom made equipment and com- ponents for a wide range of authorities and industries.

The manufacture of panels for the rolling stock industry, luggage racks for passenger trains, tanks for hot water units, posting boxes, enclosures for overhead road signs (up to 10m wide and 2.2m deep) and many similar contracts represents a significant portion of the company’s daily work.

For these contracts, and for all the others that it undertakes, the Townsend Group supplies a complete range of design, manufacturing and finishing services designed to ensure clients benefit fully from the groups long experience - focused on the application of simplified solution and cost efficient manufacture.

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3232 TOWNSEND 360 Plant Capabilities

The equipment employed by The Townsend Group includes, but is not limited to:

TYPE MANUFACTURER CAPACITY MAT. DIMENSIONS

CNC Turret punching Trumpf TC-200R / Jetcam 150kN 6.4mm mild steel Trumpf TC 260A / Jetcam 250kN 6,4mm mild steel

CNC Laser Cutting Bystronic 3015 BTL / Bysoft 6.6 3000mm x 1500mm Auto load & Unload

CNC Vee Cutting Amada 4012 4 metres 6.0mm stainless steel

CNC Press Brakes Darley 50 tonnes 2500mm Gasparini 60 tonnes 2500mm Promecam 100 tonnes 3000mm Gasparini 105 tonnes 4000mm Colly 120 tonnes 4000mm Gasparini 200 tonnes 4000mm Gasparini 400 tonnes 5100mm

CNC Guillotine Gasparini 4006 4 metres 6.0mm mild steel

CNC Rollers Davi 4 rolls x 2500mm 6.0mm mild steel

CNC Flatbed router Texcel E Series / Enroute 3 3600 x 1800 x 150mm

Robotic Welding Motoman Fixed base GEC - LK Fixed base OTC Longreach Fixed base

Welding Spot, Oxy, Stick, MIG, TIG and Stud

Power presses John Heine 20-60 tonnes Various

Saws Striebig - NC vertical/horizontal wall saw 6000mm x 2000mm

Laminating 6000mm x 1500mm x 150mm

Linishing Various

Aluminium extrusion fabrication: Various

Drawing Capacity Autocad 2006 Solid Edge Sheet Metal 17

Programing Jetcam Version 15.41.05 Microsoft Project Primavera Suretrac

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Project name & location Involvement A$ 000's

Big W Project, Adelaide Miscellaneous racking and conveyor components 320 Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide Composite aluminium cladding 300 101 Collins Street, Melbourne Podium entry and windows 1350 101 Collins Street, Melbourne Granite façade - 57 floors 7000 Oakford Apartments, Melbourne Window wall - 16 floors 1800 Mobil Service Station, Altona, Melbourne Canopy 100 Telecom Corporate Headquarters, Melbourne Access flooring 5000 Shell Refinery, Geelong, Melbourne Access flooring 40 Shell Refinery, Geelong, Melbourne Blast proof doors 80 Mitsui Office, Melbourne Access flooring 150 Clayton University, Melbourne Door frames 200 Contract Control, Melbourne Special ceilings 180 Knoxfield Centre, Melbourne Composite aluminium cladding 3000 Essendon Hospital, Melbourne Metal pan ceilings 510

Shell House, Melbourne Aluminium sunscreens 1150 Western General Campus, Melbourne Door frames 120 Federation Square, Melbourne Zinc wall cladding 660 Residential Building (Chevron), Melbourne Louvre package 2200 Epworth Hospital, Melbourne Vitreous enamel cladding panels 350 Australian National Gallery, Canberra Aluminium sunscreens and miscellaneous metalwork 670 Parliament House, Canberra Exclusive furniture 530 Capita Project, Sydney Aluminium sunscreens 720 Maritime Museum, Sydney Aluminium roof paneling 800 60 Dixon Street, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding, curtain wall and glazed windows 600 Monorail Stations, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding 500 Imax Cinemas, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding and shopfronts 1000 National Bank, Sydney Composite aluminium and stainless steel cladding 100 State Bank, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding, glazed windows and doors 120 National Acoustics Laboratory, Sydney Metal pan ceiling system 210 Grosvenor Place, Sydney Aluminium sun louvres 2700 Centrepoint, Sydney Metal pan ceiling system 110 Plessey House, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding 100 Wynyard Station, Sydney Aluminium glazed screens, barrier boxes 110 Union Carbide, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding and shopfronts 100

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Engadine Chambers, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding and shopfronts 110 Town Hall Station, Sydney Aluminium glazed screens, barrier boxes 600 GIO Building, Sydney Metal pan ceilings external 200 Stadium Australia, Sydney Stainless steel escalator cladding 120 Reserve Bank, Sydney Metal pan ceilings 290 MEPC, Sydney Metal pan ceilings 260 Homebush Bay Hotel, Sydney Miscellaneous architectural metalwork 50 Liverpool Station, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 150 Town Hall Station, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 30 Anzac Memorial, Sydney Stainless Steel Security Screens 218 Macquarie Apartments, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 30 Circular Quay Redevelopment, Sydney Metal pan ceilings 480 Circular Quay Redevelopment, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding - Ticket booths 1250 AGL, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 200 Telecom Plaza, Sydney Access flooring 90 Darling Harbour Bridge, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 140 Scuderia Veloce Motors, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 140 55 Christie Street, Sydney Internal wall cladding 20 MMI City Tower, Sydney Clock tower 10

Australian Airlines, Sydney Metal pan ceilings 170 110 Goulburn Street, Sydney Metal pan ceilings and wall cladding 150 Prime centre, Sydney Miscellaneous metalwork 140 Centennial Plaza, Sydney Stainless steel column and façade cladding 80 Anchor House, Sydney Awning facias and soffits 130 St Vincents Hospital, Sydney Access flooring 10 Aussat Headquarters, Sydney Access flooring 100 Westpac Bank, Sydney Access flooring 260 Caltex Refinery, Sydney Access flooring 140 Frenchs Forest Complex, Sydney Screens and sill units 50 Sydney Central, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding 150 150 Clarence Street, Sydney Sill units and foyer cladding 170 Commonwealth Bank, Sydney Facias and awning cladding 70 Airport Building, Sydney Sill units 100 White Horse Development, Sydney Pedestrian bridge 140 60 Martin Place, Sydney Composite Aluminium cladding 10 Harbour Tunnel, Sydney Toll booths and fascias 220 Coca-Cola Headquarters, Sydney Metal pan ceilings and wall cladding 70 Manly Wharf, Sydney Metal pan ceilings 10 135 King Street, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding 20

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NRMA Sydney Computer work stations 80 BHP, Sydney Computer work stations 280 Coopers and Lybrand, Sydney Computer work stations 2000 ADC House, Sydney Composite aluminium and stainless steel over cladding 650 Ingham Enterprises, Sydney Computer work stations 1800 King Street Development, Sydney Soffit linings 80 Naval Hydrographic Office, Sydney Composite aluminium and over cladding 250 Caltex House, Sydney Composite aluminium and over cladding 700 45 Clarence Street, Sydney Awnings, sills and stainless steel work 300 Grace Bros, Sydney Glazed aluminium ceilings 300 Blandville Court, Sydney Aluminium balustrades 500 38 Carrington Street, Sydney Stainless steel ceilings 130 Sydney Airport, Sydney Metal pan ceilings 160 ANZ Bank, Sydney Sill units 40 Tattersals Club, Sydney Sill units 60 Sydney Airport, Sydney Glazed canopy 100 Sydney International Airport, Sydney Stainless steel handrails, sills, skirtings 190 King/Kent Street Project, Sydney Stainless steel ceilings 100 Sydney Airport, Sydney Sill units 100

83 Clarence Street, Sydney Skirtings 20 Office Development, Sydney Stainless steel column cladding 40 Macquarie Mall, Sydney Stainless steel cladding and ceiling features 170 Government Phillip Tower, Sydney Bronze feature doors & misc stainless steel work 700 ABC Building, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding & louvres 1700 TKM Motors, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding & sunscreens 250 Pyrmont Sub stations, Sydney Stainless steel cladding and auto doors 750 Zurich Insurance Headquarters, North Sydney Foyer refurbishment Stainless steel & glass 1750 Digital Corporation, Sydney Computer workstations 3500 Sydney Harbour Casino, Sydney Sunscreens, balustrades and composite aluminium cladding 4500 Sydney Airport Control Tower,Sydney Aluminium & Glass curtain wall, skirtings, sills, glazed canopy 1700 Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney Granite façade & sunscreens 8500 St Martins Tower, Sydney Composite aluminium cladding 3300 Malaysia Airline Headquarters, Sydney Glass & aluminium over cladding 1380 West Ryde Railway Station, Sydney Composite cladding 650 King Street Wharf, Sydney Stainless steel column cladding 750 151 East Bondi Apartments, Sydney Aluminium M i55 louvres 600 Big W Project, Warwick Miscellaneous racking and conveyor components 500 Westpoint Shopping Complex Blacktown, Sydney Balustrades and column cladding 1500 Breakfast Point Residential Complex, Sydney (various bldgs) Aluminium M i55 louvres 600

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Sydney Showground, Sydney Roofing, guttering and ceiling panels 350 Epping Chatswood Rail Line, Sydney Cladding and linings package to 4 railway stations 16000 Children’s Trial courts, Parramatta External façade package involving aluminium composite panel 300 Commercial building, Darling Island, Sydney External façade, awnings, soffits, column and internal wall cladding package 800 Residential building, Saunders Wharf, Sydney External zinc & aluminium panel façade, and internal wall cladding package 500 Commercial building, Darling Park, Sydney Stainless steel and glass awning 230 Quarter Deck Sports Complex, Sydney Terracotta cladding 140 Sydney Airport Stainless steel cladding 45 Wilson House, Sydney Stainless steel windows 25 Manly Vale Residences, Sydney Louvres 190 Darlinghurst Road, Sydney Composite cladding 50 IKEA, Sydney Composite cladding 75 Scots College, Sydney Stainless steel kitchen 60 Regent Place, Sydney Stainless steel & glass balustrade & aluminium cladding 62 ANZAC War Memorial Gate Refurbishment, Sydney Stainless Steel 40 Breakfast Point Savannah Complex - Sydney Louvres 100 Latitude Commercial Building, Sydney Composite cladding & louvres 243 VW Showroom, Sydney Composite cladding 60 Hilton Hotel, Sydney Composite cladding 240

RSL Club, Sydney Louvres 26 State Library, Sydney Structural floor 40 UTS University, Sydney Sunscreens 60 John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle Composite cladding 850 Commercial Building (Centro), Newcastle External façade package in aluminium composite panel 500 Millennium Train Project, Newcastle Stainless steel & aluminium components 750 Commercial/Residential Building (Acculon), Newcastle Operating louvres 150 Australian Embassy, Beijing, China Door frames and doors 2000 Indian Government, Delhi, India RFI enclosures 1000 Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong Stainless steel cladding panels 4500 Jin Mao Building, Beijing, China Aluminium guttering system 60 KCRC light rail, Hong Kong Stainless steel rail car components 180 Hong Kong Intl Airport (CLK) Hong Kong Roof edge profiles & skylight 550 Kuala Lumpur Intl Airport, Malaysia Aluminium and bronze ceilings 250 Kuala Lumpur Intl Airport, Malaysia Aluminium fascia panels & sunscreens 900 Venice Airport, Venice, Italy Stainless steel baggage carousel pressings 80 Thai ABS, Thailand Miscellaneous racking components 150 Expo Station, Singapore Stainless steel ceilings & titanium roof edging 3200

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The people for superior metalwork

50 Barry Avenue Mortdale NSW 2223 T: +61 2 9533 4066 F: +61 2 9153 8504 E: [email protected] www.townsendgroup.com.au