Testimonials
Melbourne’s Pentridge Village redevelopment project manager Peter Beyer said “we gained three additional lots with a net gain of $465.000 plus more open recreation space by using Rainstore3”.
And the project won the 2004 award for “WSUD in a built environment” from the SIAV and a High Commendation from the 2005 Victorian Engineering awards.
VicUrban had different problems at Melbourne’s Docklands Park. High water tables required more lateral thinking to ensure safe, efficient stormwater management.
Invisible Structures Pty Ltd worked closely with the designers, Connell Wagner and the client VicUrban on the installation which won the WSUD in a built environment award in 2003.
“We were looking for the ultimate and are very pleased with the result”, VicUrban project manager Owen Cavanaugh commented. To “prove” the product’s load bearing ability, he had a 25 tonne excavator traverse the completed system – Rainstore3 and Rainstore3 Advantage both are certified to carry any road legal vehicle.
Recent Projects
A Selection of Completed Rainstore3 Installations include:
Mar 2009 Mirvac Yarra’s Edge – Docklands Melbourne – total volume 178 m3
Five interconnected tanks providing 168,000 litres of stormwater storage.
- Terrence Blythman – Mirvac 0423 792 707
Jan 2009 VicUrban – Valley Lake Niddrie – volume 252m3
A 250,000Kl system to provide storage for irrigation of surrounding parklands
- Liam Mills GHD Consulting 8687 8327
Oct 2008 SITA Environmental – Wingfield South Australia – volume 528 m3
500 kilolitres of storage to store roof run off for re-use in toilet flushing, vehicle wash-down and irrigation.
- Mark Rawson – Project Consultant 08 8294 5571 or 0447 772 920
Aug 2008 Amberley Air Base – Ipswich Queensland – volume 200 m3
To harvest storm water run off from adjacent buildings for irrigation of sports fields.
This 188 kilolitre system took only three days to install and is beneath a car park.
- Neil Walpole – Project Manager Ed A’Hern Plumbing Pty Ltd 07 5556 9600
Jan 2008 Wayville Show Grounds – Adelaide – volume 1890 m3
This 1.7 megalitre system took just eight days to install and is the first of two tanks that will provide a total of 3.5 megalitres of storage for use as irrigation (since completed).
- Fred Harding – Project Manager Built Environs Pty Ltd 0418 817 473
Dec 2007 Mildura Police Station – volume 80 m3
An innovative drainage system beneath car parking areas to filter stormwater through Gravelpave2 (hard stand porous pavement also manufactured by Invisible Structures Pty Ltd) then channeled into a series of shallow soakage pits. Rainstore3 provided safe load bearing capacity beneath the car parking areas.
- Anthony Robinson – Project Manager Arthur Robinson Plumbing 0417 731 073
Nov 2007 Luther College – Croydon Victoria – volume 1034 m3
A 1.0 megalitre system designed to ensure irrigation for playing fields.
- Chris Clifford – Luther College 0434 318 498
Nov 2007 Terang Hospital Victoria – volume 110 m3
On site water storage was required for fire fighting emergencies. The Rainstore3 system was installed beneath a car parking area.
- Barry Warburton Crichton Plumbing Service Warnambool 03 5562 7066
- Greg Monea MacLeod Consulting Pty Ltd Geelong 03 5221 9033
Sep 2007 Queen Victoria Market – Melbourne – volume 666 m3
For the Melbourne City Council, this installation was designed for toilet flushing and market wash down was installed beneath adjacent roadway.
- Tony Moussa – Project Manager Melbourne City Council 03 9658 8607
- Leigh Holmes – Consulting Engineer Coomes Consulting 03 9993 7923
Aug 2007 St Kilda Bowls Club – Melbourne – volume 65 m3
Installed under the member’s car park to provide irrigation for bowling greens, this system took only one day to install process ensured minimal disruption to club activities.
- Roger Brent – Club Secretary 0411 122 023
Jul 2007 Norlane Bowls Club – Geelong – volume 110 m3
For Geelong City Council, to provide detention capacity for a 1/100 year storm event.
- Anthony Hibbert – Geelong City Council 03 5227 0538
- Gary Drew – Nott and Drew Plumbing 03 5229 5703
Apr 2007 Marcus Oldham College – Highton – volume 32.4 m3
The first of two systems designed to provide general grounds irrigation.
- Dave Bent – Grounds Manager 0407 316 128
Nov 2006 Gateway Plaza – Leopold Victoria – volume 823m3
For Lascorp Development Group, this two level installation is a combined retention tank and surge control system installed beneath the supermarket car park.
- Matthew Lasky – Director, Lascorp Pty Ltd 03 9866 2266
- Peter McMillan Norris Plant Hire 0418 521 521
- Damien Scully Probuild Site manager 0410 221 272
Jun 2006 Visy Board Pty Ltd - Ipswich Queensland - volume 330m3
Designed for both detention and retention for on-site reuse, this installation took just two days to install ready for backfill and final surface finish.
- Troy Bishop – Project Manager Newport Constructions – 0408 660 339
- Silvio Butturini – Site Manager Newport Constructions – 0400 299 592
May 2006 De Nova Group for Nursing Home – volume 78m3
To meet Council’s stormwater management regulations for Cowes Nursing Home.
- Mark Rimmington – Civil Engineer Klopfer Dobos - 03 9415 3013
- Brett Watson – Site Manager – 0418 322 142
Dec 2005 Monash University Caulfield Campus –volume 186m3.
Storm water harvesting from adjacent buildings for recycling as irrigation.
- Chris Riskas – Grounds and Maintenance Manager 0419 385 323
- Geoff Clark – Urban Initiatives Pty Ltd – 03 9329 6844
Sep 2005 Point Park – Mirvac at Docklands – volume 362m3.
An unusual variation. Because the site is at sea level, a storage system could only be installed above ground but the landscaping designers required the tank be out of sight.
The problem was solved by creating an artificial landscaped mound of earth within which was installed a Rainstore3 system to store 341,000 litres.
Four workers with one small excavator took just six hours to install the 362m3 ready for enveloping and back filling.
- Brian Cavanagh – Contracts Manager ACE Contracting – 0425 730 055
- Michael Tenbuuren – Irrigation Consultant – 03 9729 4199
- David Lister – Project Manager Mirvac 03 9645 9400
Docklands Precinct – VicUrban - total volume 704m3.
Three installations are expected to harvest 10 million litres of water annually. Two were installed for storage and one to manage storm surge. This project won an SIAV award.
May 2004 - Moreland City Council – Pentridge Redevelopment – total volume 286m3
Rainstore3 offered a cost-effective solution to several sensitive issues. Council was concerned about ongoing maintenance costs and public liability issues of the Sedimentation Pond originally specified by Melbourne Water. Melbourne Water was concerned about run-off into the adjacent very sensitive (environmentally and politically) Merri Creek. By accepting our alternative solution, the developer, Pentridge Village Pty Ltd gained three additional building blocks, plus unencumbered additional recreation area and the marketing benefit of an innovative on-site stormwater treatment system.
Pentridge Village Pty Ltd calculated they achieved a net gain of over $465,000.00!
Plus, Melbourne Water achieved a greatly reduced environmental impact on the Merri Creek (than would have been achieved by the Sed Pond) in terms of suspended solids and nutrient release from the development. This was achieved by combining Rainstore3 with world-class, filtration systems (developed and produced in Melbourne by CDS Technologies Pty Ltd) and then utilising the filtered stored water for irrigation of surrounding parklands.
This installation won the 2004 Victorian Stormwater Industry Association innovation award for “Constructed WSUD in an established area”
- Peter Beyer, Project Manager – Pentridge Village – 0408 318 902
- Cate Collins, ESD Engineer – Moreland City Council – 03 9240 1138
- Chris Chesterfield, Melbourne Water - 03 9235 2115
- Steve Williams, Director Lambert and Rehbein Engineers – 03 9328 425
Aug 2003
- Owen Cavanagh, Project Manager – VicUrban 0407 058 018
- John Couper, Project Manager – JA Dodds Pty Ltd - 0413 782 766