Woodhead has purpose-designed the Water Corporation’s new water procurements and delivery process facility, with a 24/7 concentric control room at the heart of its operations. The resulting control room is a leading benchmark in control and operations centres, the planning outcome provides an innovative response to the notion of a control centre and the site constraints.
The workplace integrates geographically disparate departments of the water procurement and delivery process in WA, into one location. Successful integration has enabled each team to maintain their individual function whilst also promoting improved collaboration with their colleagues. Integration, from a functional perspective, is resolved in the layout and spatial organisation based on the circular floor plan.
Transparency and visibility is reinforced throughout the design to promote a sense of collaboration. The selection of materials and details is driven by task and function. Floor, wall and ceiling treatments consider acoustic attenuation and also inform the aesthetic of the space. All materials and equipment specified in the interior contract responds to key sustainability and resource consumption aspects of client brief.
The workplace design achieves the flexibility required for ease in reconfiguring work groups, a detail principle which reduces future disruption and cost and enables the interior to adapt to change within the organisation over time.
