Warriewood Project Overview
Our team engineered, manufactured & installed two Span+ plant platforms – fitted with guardrails & access ladders. Retrofitted onto the roof of this active shopping centre.
“It was painful to see large heavy structural steel getting craned onto roofs, taking a long time to finish just one platform laboriously. We invented the lightweight platform in about 2014, and it changed the market. Months became days. Cutting and welding were replaced by simple nuts and bolts.”
– Nigel Cro, Managing Director of Con-form Group
What Is The Span+ System?
The Research and Development Team at Con-form Group had their work cut out for them when they were tasked with engineering a solution to Australia’s antiquated structural steel HVAC&R platform problem. Years of research, labour and testing later – Span+ was born.
Span+ (a rafter-mounted) HVAC platform is lightweight, strong, can span over 10.5m between rafters and can be installed 5 times faster than traditional mechanical plant platforms – with zero hot works required.
While great for new builds, Span+ is ideal for retrofits where surface mounted platforms aren’t an option. Take this shopping centre located on the North Coast of Sydney, NSW – where the building required two new plant decks to house machinery weighing between 3-5 tonne.
Being a relatively old shopping centre (40 years), the roof wasn’t suited to host a purlin-mounted/surface-mounted platforms, so the team at Con-form Group worked closely with the building company in charge of the refurb to determine that two Span+ platforms would be the optimal solution.
These Span+ platforms were fitted to rafters distanced 8m apart using our proprietary stub columns (with no hotworks required), and varied from 28m2 to 35m2 in size. With no hotworks required, this eliminated downtime and the installation was completed within three days.
Our team oversaw the design, engineering, manufacturing, and installation of these two large plant decks! Completed with guardrails on all sides and access ladder to platforms, we’re happy to say we offer this end-to-end service Australia-wide.
Why choose Con-form Group’s Span+ system over other traditional HVAC+R platforms?
Span+ is not only a modern take on traditional structural steel platforms, but the solution is also 85% lighter and can be installed 5 times faster! The Span+ system can either be assembled on the roof or built on the ground and craned on! The choice is yours.
On the top of it, it comes with a 25-year warranty!
Our in-house Engineering and R&D team work together to ensure Australian Standards are exceeded across every project – which is why we offer engineer-certification on every project.
We are proudly Australian owned and Australian-made. Our products are eco-friendly and cost effective but are also engineered to handle all compliance loads – dead loads, live loads, wind loads, seismic loads – the lot!
Learn more about our Span+ Rafter Mounted Platforms or contact us.
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Watch the Span+ Installation Video on YouTube.
