BHPMelbourne

The project condensed BHP’s occupied space from five floors to two and a half, while upgrading the quality and flexibility of the workplace. Stage one focused on the Business Centre, ground floor and mezzanine, introducing meeting rooms, a kitchen, open café and flexible event space beneath a six-metre-high ceiling.

Stage two brought the upper workplace levels into the same architectural language, with enclosed rooms, collaborative settings and adaptable spaces planned around new working patterns. Optima’s glazing helped define these areas without losing the sense of openness needed across a more compact footprint.

Optima 117 Plus and Revolution 100 were used to create enclosed spaces with different levels of acoustic privacy and visual connection. The mullion-free double-glazed elevations helped maintain clarity across the workplace, while single-glazed systems were used where a lighter division was more appropriate.

Kinetic Align sliding doors and Elite Aero pocket sliding doors added flexibility where room use and available space needed to work harder. By reducing the impact of door swings and allowing spaces to shift between private and collaborative use, the systems supported the adaptable workplace model at the centre of BHP’s brief.

The glazing package was finished alongside bold interior tones including Dulux Duralloy Manor Red and Dulux Shoji White, giving the partitions and doors a stronger relationship with Woods Bagot’s wider design palette. Timber doors in Microflush frames added a more solid threshold to selected rooms, balancing transparency with moments of enclosure.

Sustainability was also central to the project, with the fit-out targeting a 6-Star Green Star rating. Delivered in two stages and completed two months ahead of schedule, the project demonstrates how a reduced workplace footprint can still support quality, flexibility and long-term performance when the interior is carefully coordinated.