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Cochlear's Global Headquarters - Macquarie University - Sydney

■Project value: $130 million

■Completion date: October 2010

 

Project Details

 

The new Global Headquarters for Cochlear is located on University Avenue and set in picturesque bushland setting. Cochlear has aggregated their research and development, testing, clean room manufacture, warehouse and distribution into one building of 26,000 m2 gross floor area campus style accommodation.

 

Cochlear relocating to the University campus is the foundation of the University's Centre of Excellence for Hearing and Audiology.

 

The Cochlear Head Office will be the only integrated research-manufacture-distribution facility in Australia. Cochlear at Macquarie will manufacture all Cochlear products and export around the world. It is estimated that at full production 5000 cochlear implants will be produced each week.

 

 

Practical completion of the Cochlear project was reached on the 20 October 2010.

 

Some general information about the building includes:

◦Build Time:- 17 months

◦Total Man Hours:- 520,942 hours

◦Weight in Steel Used:- 2,243 tonnes

Total Building Area:- 34,994 m2

Source: Macquarie University Website

 

 

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