An artist’s impression of the timber hotel due to open in Adelaide in 2024.
The world’s tallest CLT hotel will be built in Adelaide’s CBD, and a second will be built in Whyalla at the top of Spencer Gulf as part of a $300 million investment in tourism in South Australia. Source: Timberbiz
The $170 million 31-story 100-metre Adelaide project will include 324 hotel rooms and 22 apartments while the $138 million Whyalla project will include 164 rooms and 49 apartments.
Veteran developer Barrie Harrop’s Thrive Construct is behind both projects which are expected to open in 2024 and Cox Arcfhitecture is the designer.
Both buildings will be built from CLT and green steel. Most of the two projects be prefabricated offsite, delivered in modules and assembled onsite. The same system was used to construct the Adelaide Oval Hotel.
At present the world’s tallest standing timber hotel is the 85.4-metre Wood Hotel in Brumunddal, Norway – rising 18 floors, with 72 hotel rooms.
Sydney’s first prefabricated timber hotel has been snapped up by a local operator in June for about $30 million before even opening its doors to customers.
Mr Harrop told the Australian Financial Review said genuine sustainability was at the heart of both its hotel developments.
“A lot of hoteliers in the world greenwash,” he said. “CLT is the new concrete. Stored carbon, that’s the future.
“Upon completion, the Victoria Square site will be the tallest hotel in the world manufactured from cross-laminated timber.
“We have worked with Cox Architects to develop a structure that is completely carbon neutral and constructed from renewable plantation pine and green steel. All supplied from Australian industry.”
Thrive Construct has signed a joint development deed with Dim Georgiadis, representing the eleven owners of the Adelaide site paving the way for the project to move into the next phase of detailed design and engineering.
