Q1 Tower: Preliminary, Detailed Design and Production Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Q1 Tower, a tall landmark building located in Queensland. It delves into the various design stages, including conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design phases, emphasizing the importance of stability and strength. The report investigates the production phases, system tests, and validation processes involved in the Q1 Tower's construction. It also examines human factors, optimization strategies, and infrastructure design aspects. The analysis covers the construction transaction, plan, bid and contract documents, making of bids, the construction process, and project completion. The report provides insights into the Q1 Tower's architectural design, structural components, and the various system tests, such as stairwell pressurization testing. The evaluation phase, validation processes, and human factors are also discussed, along with recommendations for future improvements. This report contributes to the understanding of the Q1 Tower's engineering and design, offering a detailed overview of its construction and operational aspects.

System Science and
Engineering

Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Preliminary design.................................................................................................................2
3. Detailed design........................................................................................................................3
4. Production phases...................................................................................................................5
5. System test...............................................................................................................................7
6. Evaluation...............................................................................................................................8
7. Validation processes...............................................................................................................8
8. Human factors........................................................................................................................8
9. Optimization...........................................................................................................................9
10. Recommendations...............................................................................................................9
11. Conclusion...........................................................................................................................9
References.....................................................................................................................................10
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1. Introduction
Q1 is a tall landmark building located in Queensland. It has more number of floors mainly
designed for commercial use. The design of Q1 involves stages of design such as conceptual
design, preliminary design, and detailed design. General criteria for the design are stability and
strength. The structural drawing of Q1 tower enable engineers to construct Q1 tower with
stability. In any design project, next to the conceptual design phase, preliminary and detailed
design takes part. The preliminary and the detailed design part makes sure that the project is
standard and will be within the acceptable budgets and costing. The detailed design phase of Q1
provides enough ideas for project investors and for the development team to provide tough
design.
The preliminary design, detailed design phase of Q1 will be analyzed. The production
phases, system test of Q1 will be investigated and provided. The validation process of Q1 design
will be examined and provided. The human factors and the optimization will be studied and
provided. The infrastructure design aspects of Q1 will be studied. Suitable recommendations will
be made finally.
2. Preliminary design
Generally, the preliminary design is the initial step of the design concept. The preliminary
design of Q1 takes to the design view of Q1. The interfaces of Q1 design are created both way.
The interface of the design Q1 (Construction, 2017).
The primary process of the preliminary design considered to the baseline requirements and
description from a contract between the development team and requirements definition team. In
preliminary design phase, member of the development group describes the design construction
and that will meet the design of system specification (Sirigiri, 2014). This phase organize the
desires and requirements into main subsystems and choose a best design plan from among
possible replacements. Internal and external designs are defined to the subsystem level and the
design of high level objects and functions are specified. The preliminary design report defines
the high level design of the building construction. This design phase concludes in the PDR
(Preliminary Design Review), where the development group correctly presents the plan design
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for evaluation part (Paulino, 2010). The design principles and outline design procedures are
applied to the preliminary design.
The architecture design of the Q1 tower is developed based on the requirements of consumer and
use cases. The relevant report of the design interface, relationship diagrams and design report of
Q1 tower are included in the preliminary design of the system (Skyscrapercenter.com, 2017).
The floor plan of Q1 tower increases the architecture development and certified that it exclude
from mistakes of the design. As more factors are used to the design of Q1 tower and it provides
the better visual illustration. The preliminary design phase of the Q1 tower construction includes
 Frame and window coverings of the Q1 tower
 Covering of wall in Q1 tower
 Floor covering of the Q1 tower
 Special lighting inside Q1 tower
 Color synchronization in addition with coordination
 Special interior design of the Q1 tower
The preliminary cabinetry design of the Q1 tower contains three dimensional isometric drawings,
location of all drawers and doors, location of plumbing fixtures and all accessories, specially
built in furnishers and cabinets. Preliminary ceiling design of the Q1 tower provides the design
and location of gypsum board soffits and ceilings as well as location and generic specifications
of each lighting fixtures. Finally, preliminary design strategy provides the high level design of
Q1 tower and it satisfy the requirements of system architecture.
3. Detailed design
The detailed design standard for the Q1 tower is to provide an original concrete result to certify
concrete. It might be pumped to excessive heights.
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Fig: 1 Structure of Q1
The height observatory range of Q1 tower is more than 230m and 771 feet. The floor above
ground and floor below ground of the Q1 tower is 78 and 2. The elevator speed of the Q1 tower
is 9 m/s and available parking spaces of the Q1 tower is more than 730m. The architectural
height of the Q1 tower is 322 m/1,059 ft.
The detailed design of the Q1 tower is discussed below. The preliminary design clearly
explained that the development group extended the architecture with more stability (Dubina,
Dinu and Stratan, 2009). To get good identification for the construction of Q1 tower, the
methods of successive reinforcement detailed the preliminary design. The design formalism are
formed and provided in the following types.
1. The diagrams for the functional design of the Q1 tower
2. Description of the requirements
3. Methods or procedure for the operation
4. Functional and procedural description of every unit in Q1 tower
The detailed design plan document forms the fundamental for the execution of constructing the
building. The Critical Design Review calculates the phase of the design of Q1 tower. The
detailed design is determined to explain the level of the Q1 tower detailed design. The
construction of the building standard components are used by the developers from the various
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subsystems. The construction team constantly checks each subsystem like new modules. During
the construction period of Q1 tower, the components are used effectively. The components of the
construction building are correctly integrated and designed further to attract millions of people
(Tucker, 2010).
During the phase of the detailed design, the methods for combing designs of the
subsystem and the Q1 design of the system are explained in the execution strategy which is
arranged through the development managers. The developers evaluated the designs of the main
components to explain whether they can be reused or modified in the preliminary phase of the
Q1 design.
The design of the building varied in the phase of the detailed design, but it does not change or
update the methods of the design in the report of the preliminary design. The inspection and the
evaluation of the design are showed during the phase of the preliminary design and in the phase
of the detailed design. If the unit design of Q1 tower is certified and calculated at the period of
the preliminary, no need to calculate the similar design again in the phase of the detailed design.
The phase of the preliminary design provides the high level system design and it also provides
the fundamentals for the Q1 tower construction detailed design.
4. Production phases
The Production phases involves two stages. They are the following:
 Construction
 Transaction
Construction
The following 4 stages involved in the process of Q1 construction:
 Plan
 Bid and contracts documentation
 Making of bids
 The process of construction
Transaction
The transaction involves 2 steps:
 Payments for the construction
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 Project completion
Plan:
Generally all the project construction starts with plan and design which is mentioned as
programming of design architecture. Similarly, Q1 is also started in the similar way. The main
designer of the project or construction is the architect. The Q1 designers controlled the whole
specifications, design and the materials like wall covering, carper etc and other features of the
architectural building. In order to examine the aim and the purpose of the Q1 construction, the
engineer and architect had the meetings with the client during the starting stages of the process of
the Q1 design (Li, Hutchinson and Duffield, 2017).
Bid and contract documents:
The builders of Q1 should produce the potential bidders associated with plans, drawings and the
specifications of the project which are in terms of documents in contracts. It gives the pictorial
representation. The drawing showed layout, appearance amenities and the equipment for the
project. The architectural plan of Q1 specifies the project layout like design plan for floor,
elevation details inside Q1, constructional details and the architectural completion. For the Q1
tower, Forise, the china's biggest expanded economic belonging companies contracted three
thousand four hundred and ninety four square meter site via its subdivision. Forise funding
Australia from an organization related with the investment bank of the United States.
Making of bids:
The series of events to make bid contracts of Q1 is as follows
1. In order to make a formal estimation cost for Q1, contractor acquires plan copy and the
specifications initially.
2. To determine the process of the project construction, contractor reviews the specifications
and the contract plans.
3. All the submitted bids are evaluated by the owner and grant the contracts.
4. The documentation of the contract comprises of the starting and completion of the dates,
requirements for the insurance, procedure for progress building.
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The process of construction:
The fourth phase is the process of construction which is known as field work broken into permits
of the building, shop drawings, submission of projects, order change, sub-contractors and the
sub-contractor scheduling.
Payments for the construction:
The contracts for the construction extended over the time period. The client pays the contractor
for completion of the work. Q1 tower took four years to complete the construction project. For
the construction of Q1 tower, Forise spent greater than two million dollar on the public art by the
international famous United State designer Ed carpenter.
Project completion:
The final phase is called as completion phase and it denotes that the building is ready for the
occupancy. Ed carpenter, the international famous United State artist fitted the building with the
exterior LED lighting which is never seen before in Australia to generate a vision of light which
is dropping like a rain down the facade of the building. The five star services of concierge for the
residents which include valet parking.
5. System test
There are many system tests are involved. While considering safeties from fire penetrating
stairs, the system of stairwell pressurization testing is described. It is the process of exhibiting
principles of the engineering work and the affirmation from the reports of the fire engineering.
The limitations of tower Q1 relates to the system of stairwell pressurization. The system of
pressurization is to generate adequate flow of air to protect smoke from the floor of fire-affected
area penetrating the stairwell. The testing exhibited in Q1 that the north stairwell criticized when
both of the doors to the stairwell and interconnected freight elevator shaft were unlocked
simultaneously. Anyway, the services of the fire and rescue of the Queensland stay fulfilled as to
the building security (Scribd, 2017).
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6. Evaluation
The evaluation phase of Q1 tower includes in evaluating the design, cost and quality. Atelier
Sustainable Development Goals designed Q1 tower. The process of design started during the
Sydney 2000 Olympics, they wanted to make a creation intrinsically. Finally, the tower Q1 is
innovated from directed upswept curve of 2000 Olympic torch which is tending to remind opera
house of Sydney that overlaps curve. Q1 tower is the tallest building when compared to the
Chrysler building which is located in the city of New York. The sky point is two hundred and
thirty meters over the sea level. It has one thousand three hundred and thirty one steps from the
ground to the level of seventy seven. Q1 tower utilized sixty one thousand cubic meter of
concrete. It used nine thousand three hundred tons of reinforcing steel and eighteen thousand
nine hundred and twenty six panes of glasses. The cost of the project is approximately two
hundred and fifty five million dollar AUD (Goldcoastbulletin.com.au, 2017).
7. Validation processes
System testing is much essential and it is needed to find the faults. So that greater results
can be generated. The testing validation is much crucial for building construction. Q1 is built in a
standard way and plan is new yields are displayed in the development. The components used for
constructing Q1 is validated. The validation process of building includes fire control censor.
Actuators are used for fire safety and smoke controls inside Q1 tower (Q1.com.au, 2017).
8. Human factors
In the process of design, the human factors are measured as the chief significant. The human
factors analysis classification system (HFACS) is an overall human error structure. It is primarily
developed and is tested as a tool kit to investigate and to analyze the human causes of accidents
in construction environments (Skypoint.com.au, 2017).
There are many human factors for construction. Among them, climatic condition is a main
factor. It creates effect in construction of building Q1. The architectural formulation connects
the needs in construction work physically. It then directly affects and reduces the efficiency.
There are many environmental challenges and economic sustainability (Taylor & Francis, 2017).
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9. Optimization
The structural systems designed for Q1 can carry gravity and the loads. The Q1 system
stiffness is well associated with the weight. The structural engineer provides the optimal design
for Q1. The design beams, floors, shear wall-frames are matched with stress and with drift. The
optimal efficiency of structural system is well determined by the factor:
Height to width ratio
The optimal structural scheme is provided for Q1. This satisfies drifts and the limits of
acceleration. The optimal structural model frames, framed tubes, wall frames are used
(Moghaddam and Hajirasouliha, 2008).
10.Recommendations
 It is recommended to study advanced Design and pre-stressed concrete domain
 It is recommended to investigate structural steel design.
 It is recommended to keep actuators damper.
 It is recommended to guarantee that design interface is continued with consistency
 It is suggested to get more support from the field of engineering.
 It is recommended to enhance extra requirements in the phase of design by using more
advanced methods (Ørstavik, Dainty and Abbott, n.d.).
 It is recommended to provide needed alterations during post implementation phase.
 It is suggested to exclude the faults during construction phase.
 It is recommended to establish superior standards in the internal construction of the
building.
 It is suggested to expand the performance for customizing Q1.
 It is suggested to increase access floor tiles to highlight Q1 beauty.
 The flooring system, and the render system needs to be improved (Process Validation:
General Principles and Practices, 2011).
11.Conclusion
The preliminary design and detailed design of Q1 is analyzed and described. The production
phases, system test of Q1 are investigated and provided. The production phases includes
construction and transaction phases. The validation process of Q1 design is examined and
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provided. The human factors are studied. The infrastructure design aspects of Q1 are studied.
Suitable recommendations are made finally.
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