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title: Rosebery Engine Yards – Australia
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# Rosebery Engine Yards – Australia

![Rosebery Engine Yards – Australia](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/rosebery-engine-yards-nsw-3.png)

**BG&E, now part of SYSTRA, delivered structural and civil engineering services for Rosebery Engine Yards, the adaptive reuse of a group of heritage-listed industrial warehouses on a 1.9-hectare site in Sydney into an 11,650 sq m mixed-use precinct comprising boutique workspaces, showrooms and food & beverage tenancies.**

## 󠀁**Retaining the existing structure**󠁿 

The project involved a full building upgrade of three warehouses built between
1920 and 1930, with extensive materials testing and structural assessment
enabling 90% of the existing structure to be retained, delivering more than 30%
reduction in embodied carbon relative to demolition and rebuild.

New roof lateral bracings were introduced to achieve code compliance, with
extensive coordination of building services to ensure that additional loads did
not exceed the capacity of the existing roof structure.

## 󠀁**Strengthening heritage fabric**󠁿

A key focus of the structural scope was the design and strengthening of heritage
elements including long-span timber and steel sawtooth trusses, masonry walls,
steel framing, timber frameworks, original windows and exposed brickwork.

These long-span trusses were retained and strengthened to preserve the large
open floor plates and high ceilings required for the new commercial tenancies,
while maintaining the industrial character of the warehouses.

## RECOGNITION

The project received the **Lord Mayor’s Prize** and **NSW Jury Citation** at the
2025 Australian Institute of Architects NSW Architecture Awards.

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