Melbourne Stock Exchange

A 25 storey steel framed structure clad in a reconstructed stone curtain wall, incorporated many pioneering techniques.

The building was constructed in approximately 600 working days, using 3000 tonnes of structural steel 11,500 cubic metres of concrete and several hundred precast concrete cladding units and the largest single pane of glass ever installed in Australia at the time.

The Stock Exchange occupied the first, second and part of the third floors, including an 836m2 column free trading floor – the largest column free space built in Australia to that point.

The fourth floor was jacked up three millimetres to allow the removal of steelwork, following which the floor remained in situ – the first time such a system was used in the Southern Hemisphere.