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JOYCE LEE
NSW Discipline Manager - Structures
Commitmentto deliver bestfor projectoutcomes for
clients
CORE SKILLS
1. Tall buildings
2. Commercial developments
3. Civil structures
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
(Honours I), University of
NSW
Masters of Engineering
Science (Structural
Engineering), University of
NSW
Chartered Professional
Engineer (CPEng NPER)
MIStructE
Joyce has over ten years of experience in the different aspects of
structural engineering for both local and international projects.
She has been involved across various stages of a project, from
master-planning to concept design, through to detailed design
and construction handover. Her experience hasled to her
successful involvement in Barangaroo Master-planning, Dubai
Metro’s Burjuman Station, 60 Station Street, Parramatta and more
recently 177 Pacific Highway, North Sydney and 1 William Street,
Brisbane.
Joyce’s extensive design capabilitieshave culminated from her
involvement in the variety of large scale projects. Her technical
excellence combined with project management skills to lead and
motivate teams has contributed to the successful delivery of
projects to clients.
Project Experience
Westfield Warringah Mall - Sydney, Australia
Scentre Group, 2015 to current AUD 400 Million.
Westfield Warringah Mall is a large indoor/outdoor shopping centre on
Sydney's Northern Beaches in Brookvale, approximately 15 km from
the CBD. The development comprises an existing shopping centre of
approximately 124,000 m2 Gross Lettable Area (GLA) over 3 storeys
with 4,500 car spaces.
The total completed development will comprise approximately 162,000
m2 GLA, with over 6000 car spaces.
Joyce is the project manager for the construction phase and where the
structural engineering works consist of extensive upgrades to the
existing mall, strengthening works and interface between new works
and existing works.
ProjectExperience Continued
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472 to 486 Pacific Highway, St Leonards - Sydney, Australia
Leighton Properties, 2015 AUD 200 Million.
472 to 486 Pacific Highway, St Leonards consists of 2 residential towers with
approximately 500 apartments and 6 levels of basement carparking.
Joyce is the project manager and lead structural designer assisting the client to achieve
Development Application approval for the site and provided concept design of the towers
for tender pricing. The DA design was carried out in a tight timeframe of 8 weeks and
approval from council was achieved within 6 months.
1 Parramatta Square - Sydney, Australia
Leighton Properties, 2014 to current AUD 90 Million.
1 Parramatta Square forms Stage 1 of the overall masterplan for Parramatta City
Council’s Parramatta Square redevelopment. With approximately 26,000m2 of nett lettable
area, University of Western Sydney will occupy the building in a campus style
environment.
Joyce is the project manager coordinating civil and structural disciplines, and working as
part of the client’s overall design team with eventual novation to the D&C Builder. The
design challenges on the tower include optimising the structural efficiencies of open floor
plates with long spans whilst meeting the stringent curtain wall deflection criteria and
designing for repetition to meet the tight construction program.
177 to 199 Pacific Highway North Sydney - Sydney, Australia
Leighton Properties, 2013 to current AUD 170 Million.
177 Pacific Highway, North Sydney is a 30 storey commercial office tower with
approximately 39,000m2 of net lettable area and is the first commercial development in
North Sydney in 6 years. When complete, it will be the national operating headquarters of
Leighton Holdings.
Joyce is the project manager coordinating civil, structural and geotechnical disciplines as
well as the lead structural concept designer for the tower. The design challenges on the
tower include diversion of an existing 900mm stormwater pipe within the basement levels,
the design of the shoring retention system to accommodate an existing brick wall on the
boundary, long span cantilevers of up to 7metres on the tower office floors and an offset
lift core.
1 William Street - Brisbane, Australia
CBUS Property / Brookfield Multiplex, 2012-2014 AUD 300 Million.
1 William Street, Brisbane is the new government administrative building for the State
Government of Queensland. It provides approximately 75,000m2 of net lettable area over
43 levels at approximately 220 metres high.
Joyce was responsible for design delivery and coordination of the tower from an early
conceptual bidding stage to the detailed design stage. These included the concept design
of the tower columns, core walls for lateral stability and typical post tensioned floor
framing. She also oversaw the construction delivery of the tower’s major concrete transfer
structure at Level 3 where innovative reinforcement prefabrication techniques were
adopted to reduce construction time by up to 3 months. This was done in close
collaboration with the D&C contractor.
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241 – 245 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction - Sydney, Australia
Leighton Properties, 2013 AUD 40 Million.
241 – 245 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction is a proposed 21 storey residential tower with
approximately 120 units. The site is directly over the existing Eastern Suburbs rail tunnels.
Development Application for the tower has been recently submitted.
Joyce is the project manager coordinating civil, structural and façade disciplines as well
as the lead structural designer on the tower. The tower has 2 levels of basement, 4 above
ground podium levels and is primarily of reinforced concrete framing.
Gateway WA Tender Design - Perth, Australia
Thiess / Abigroup Joint Venture, 2012 AUD 1 Billion.
Gateway WA Tender design is an upgrade of the existing Tonkin Highway between Great
Eastern Highway and Rose Highway, and Leach Highway between Orrong Road and
Tonkin Highway.
Joyce was responsible for design delivery and coordination of the both structures and
pedestrian underpasses from the Sydney office, with the main project office in Perth.
These structures were designed as watertight retaining structures, with a 100 year design
life and stringent requirement for waterproofing. Difference design options with
reinforcement rates were provided for costing.
60 Station Street, Parramatta - Sydney, Australia
Leighton Properties/Grosvenor Australia Joint Venture (novation to John Holland
Group), 2010 to 2012 AUD 170 Million.
Joyce was the lead structural designer and Project Manager of this 20 storey commercial
tower with 2 levels of basement adjacent to the existing railway line. She was involved
from the project start up (DA submission) through to construction handover and assisted
the clients (both developer and builder) to ensure on time delivery of key project
milestones.
The structural footprint of the tower consists of an offset lift core with post tensioned floor
framing system, and high strength concrete columns to maximise net lettable area. Her
design enabled a five day construction cycle for typical floors to be achieved to meet the
tight construction program.
825 Ann Street—Brisbane, Queensland
FMG Steel Bin Structure Review—Solomon, WA,
Laing O’Rourke Australia, 2011.
825 Ann Street is a mixed used development consisting of commercial, residential and
retail areas. Joyce was seconded to Laing O’Rourke for 12 weeks to assist with the
detailed design of the podium transfer floor slab. This slab consists of ten separate pours
each approximately 600 square metres, with multiple interface between each mixed use
zone.
Joyce also reviews the structural design of a steel silo bin materials handling unit in
Solomon, used on a large mining site. This involved a finite element analysis review in
SAP 2000 and subsequent review of steel work and connections.
West Kwinana Power Station, Western Australia
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United Group Limited, 2011.
Joyce was seconded to United Group for 10 weeks to carry out the structural design for
double storey switch rooms and miscellaneous transformer structures at West Kwinana
Power Station.
CBD Metro PRI-1 (Permanent Route Infrastructure) - Sydney,
Australia
Thiess / John Holland Joint Venture, 2009 AUD 5 Billion.
Joyce was part of the tender design team that provided structural engineering to the joint
venture contractor. She was the designer of underground box structures at Barangaroo-
Wynyard and White Bay Stations, including the diaphragm walls, base slab and
permanent ground anchors. These box structures had to meet the stringent design
criteria of watertightness, subject to a high water table. She was also responsible for the
design of different retention systems for station shafts, which are located within a city
centre footprint adjacent to existing buildings.
Building the Education Revolution (BER) - South West Region,
Sydney, Australia
Hansen Yuncken, 2009 AUD 800 Million.
Joyce was the structural project co-ordinator for the detailed design delivery of 80% of
approximately 200 schools, working in a multi-disciplinary project office, interfacing with
the client and architect. She was responsible for the co-ordination between the design
office and project office to ensure the delivery of drawings for all schools to a tight
program. She also co-ordinated the queries and non conformances from the client during
the construction phase of the project.
Port Botany Expansion - Sydney, Australia
Baulderstone, 2009 AUD 500 Million.
The Port Botany Expansion project comprises of a new container terminal on the north-
eastern shore of Botany Bay, about 12km South of the Sydney CBD. Joyce reviewed the
design of the 1.8km continuous cope beam which was designed to be joint free
considering thermal and shrinkage effects, and has to achieve a 100 year design life in a
marine environment. The cope beam acts as a reinforced concrete capping beam for the
soil supporting counterfort units below.
Barangaroo Masterplanning Development Tender Design, - Sydney,
Australia
Leighton/Mirvac/Macquarie Capital Joint Venture, 2008 AUD 2.5 Billion.
Joyce was part of a joint venture design team for the client (joint venture consortium)
during the tender bid phase of the project. She was the structural designer for various
elements of the development, including civil structures such as retaining walls, tunnels
and basement car parks. She was the concept designer of the pedestrian link between
the site and Wynyard Station and the iconic 200 metre high tall building. She had to
provide different schemes to assist with cost estimates of these structures and worked
closely with the client in a project office environment to achieve these.
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Dubai Metro, Burjuman Station - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
WS Atkins, 2005 to 2007 AUD 250 Million.
Joyce was the designer of structural diaphragm walls, barrettes and reinforced concrete
entrance structures for this underground box structure. She was also involved in the
review of diaphragm wall shop drawings, as well as providing design advice to
construction queries and non-conformances to the contractor. At the later stages of the
project, she led the design coordination between Arcadis, the architect and the client
through effective distribution and communication of design information and resolution of
discrepancies. This also involved the management of the Arcadis Sydney design team at
the closing stages of the final design submission.
Dubai Tower - Doha, Qatar
RMJM Architects, 2005 to 2007 AUD 350 Million.
Joyce was the design engineer for various elements of the 88-storey tower including:
high-strength concrete columns, core walls and header beams; concrete filled steel tubes;
composite belt and outrigger trusses; steel raking trusses; and steel framing with precast
floor system. The tower has a complex footprint, with irregular column transitions and
changing floor plans above level 44. She was also seconded to Dubai for 6 weeks to
provide both client and inter-office liaison and design co-ordination. Through this project,
she also produced a benchmark design study report of high-strength concrete columns
and walls for internal training purposes.
Revesby Turnback - Sydney, Australia
Thiess United Group Joint Venture, 2005 to 2006 AUD 200 Million.
Joyce was the designer of the pedestrian footbridge as part of the quadruplication works
at Revesby Station. The structure is primarily a steel vierendeel truss with cross bracing
and a Humeslab deck supported on reinforced concrete headstocks. She was also
involved in the design of the steel canopy platform structure and verification of the steel
overhead wiring structures.
Imperial Arcade and Skygarden Redevelopment - Sydney, Australia
Westfield, 2005 AUD 500 Million.
Responsible for capacity checks of existing structure and column design of proposed new
retail area.