Recent Projects

Some recent and current projects undertaken by Assaí include:

Strategic workplaces

• Culture driven design patterns for the Australian Conservation Foundation's new offices in the 60L building in Melbourne

• Redesign and construction of six levels of office space for Deacons Lawyers, Sydney

• Redesign and construction of multiple levels of office space for Ozemail, Sydney

• Design and construction of office space for www.consult, Sydney

• Physical planning for four New South Wales TAFE (Tertiary And Further Education) campuses, and the preparation of planning manual and guidelines for the planning of all NSW TAFE campuses

• Co-authorship, with the Urban Design Advisory Service of the NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, of 'Mixed Use in Urban Centres: Guidelines for mixed-use development'

International development

• Establishment and operation of the Construction Management Unit for the World Bank-funded Emergency School Readiness Project in East Timor, for AusAID and UNTAET

• Advice to the World Bank on the design of the Emergency School Readiness Project in East Timor

• Advice to the World Bank on physical infrastructure aspects of the Community Empowerment Project in East Timor

• Infrastructure component of the PNG Primary and Secondary Teacher Education Project for AusAID, through prime contractor GRM International

• Vanuatu Secondary Schools Extension Project for AusAID

• Quang Ngai Rural Infrastructure Feasibility Study, Vietnam, for AusAID

• Review of Infrastructure Activities, Tonga

• Ha'apai Airport Emergency Repairs, Tonga

Community infrastructure

• New health centre facilities, Pius X Aboriginal Corporation, Moree for OATSIH

• New health centre facilities, Durri Aboriginal Corporation, Kempsey for OATSIH

• Apia Catchment Study for Apia Management Services, Western Samoa

Pacific regional architecture

• Urban design of Kokopo Commercial Centre, East New Britain, PNG for the Gazelle Restoration Authority, funded by the World Bank.

• House for the Governor of East Sepik Province, PNG in collaboration with Spirit of Melanesia Ltd, builders

• New housing and school buildings, Vanuatu for the Government of Vanuatu

• Designs for the Porgera Town Housing and Porgera Town Hotel for Placer Pacific and the Porgera Town Management Company

• New System of Rural Housing for Commonwealth Development Corporation and PacRim Holdings

• Design of New Facilities for the Police Training College, East Timor, for UNOPS through Allbright Engineering

• ESRP Prototype Schools, East Timor

• Offices for World Wildlife Fund, Papua New Guinea

• Rabaul and Kokopo Markets, Papua New Guinea

• Kokopo Sports Estate, Papua New Guinea

• Kerevat, Warangoi and Gelagela Health Centres, Papua New Guinea Awards