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Rivermount College Senior Hub
POSTED 18 JUNE 2024

For the last 8 weeks, we have been sharing some of our favourite and most memorable projects since Novum’s inception in 2017. This week, we’re sharing two of our projects with Rivermount College – starting with their Senior Hub!

Rivermount College’s buildings, clustered along a natural ridgeline, have been situated to maximise central green spaces. Novum’s involvement has been to strengthen an already beautiful and well laid-out campus, providing much needed social and learning nodes for the senior and middle schools.

 

The new Senior Hub supports contemporary learning by providing interconnectable learning spaces that give students and teachers ultimate flexibility. Using glass operable walls, learning spaces can be expanded, sub-divided, or opened up to connect to the outdoors.

 

“Fishbowl” style glass rooms put Rivermount’s progressive pedagogy on display and provide opportunities for collaboration and community-building activities. The school’s hosting of lunchtime and after-hours community events showcase learning, performances, student work, culture, and the College’s rich history.

 

The Senior Hub’s soaring roofline, high ceilings, and expanses of glass provide naturally lit, unencumbered spaces for flexible and collaborative learning suitable for Rivermount’s Secondary students.

 

Acoustic treatments to the ceilings and walls, and glazed operable walls, will also allow the College to comfortably sub-divide learning areas with minimal distraction.

 

We are truly honoured to have been part of such an important project for the College and look forward to sharing more of the work we have completed there.

 

CLIENT: Rivermount College

CLIENT TEAM: Richard Young (Principal), Ashley Thomas (Deputy Principal), Simon Wilkins (Business Manager), Dr Grant Watson (Property Committee Chair)

LOCATION: Gold Coast, Queensland / Yugambeh Country

 

ARCHITECT: Novum

Project Director: Joel Ridings

Project Delivery Leader: Peter Edwards

Project Team: Jeffrey Smith, Peter Boyce, Megan Duffy & Ben Leighton

 

CONTRACTOR: Fardoulys Constructions

CIVIL ENGINEER: Bligh Tanner

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Bligh Tanner

HYDRAULIC ENGINEER: Compass Consulting Group

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: WalkerBai Consulting

MECHANICAL ENGINEER: WalkerBai Consulting

TOWN PLANNER: Saunders Havill Group

CERTIFIER: Bartley Burns

QUANTITY SURVEYOR: CostPlan Group

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER: Soil Surveys

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Anderson Energy Efficiency