First robotic car park in the Southern Hemisphere completed in Parramatta high-rise, The Lennox
The state’s second CBD is now home to the first robotic car park system in the southern hemisphere.
Taking Aoyuan International's luxury Parramatta high-rise The Lennox to another level, Lödige Industries have delivered a fully autonomous car park utilising their Cubile technology.
With a total of 46 floors and 6,300 sqm of space, The Lennox is home to 414 apartments, curated from a collaboration between Aoyuan, building contractors EQ Construction, and leading architects, Marchese Partners.
President of Aoyuan International and Head of Development Australia, Adrian Liaw said Sydney is one of the world’s most desirable place to live, with the group notching up a rather impressive portfolio here, including One30 Hyde Park, Esplanade Norwest, Woolooware Bay and now The Lennox Parramatta.
“World leading architecture, innovative design and superior finishes are important in all our projects,” Liaw said.
“For The Lennox we wanted both a modern functionality and timeless aesthetic combined with our customary meticulous quality and craftsmanship. The automated parking technology from Lödige Industries offers both the innovative functionality and luxurious user experience we were keen to create and the performance we needed to see.”
Lödige started work on the site back in 2020, the completion of the carpark comes at a welcomed time as the gentrification and development of Parramatta only continues.
During planning and construction, the global specialist was able to draw on the experience of numerous projects worldwide, including Europe’s largest automated parking system with close to one thousand spaces.
The building's nine-level basement combines three levels of conventional parking with six additional levels for the automated parking system, with capacity for 327 vehicles. Thanks to efficient use of space, the automated parking levels required less than 15 metres of excavation, which, given the sedimentary rock in the area, allowed for significant cost savings in the excavation and reduced building impact.
EQ Constructions Bill Farrell said building anywhere in the Sydney market comes with its own challenges in terms of rock excavation and space limitations.
“For ‘The Lennox’ we wanted to offer residents the very best in terms of comfort and space as well as luxury living experience in the heart of Parramatta. To do that we needed an experienced partner that could deliver the ultimate user experience we wanted, with the space-saving solution that we needed,” Farrell said.
“In Lödige Industries we found that partner. Their experience with close to 2 million vehicles parked in Europe’s largest automated parking system made us want to bring this technology to Sydney as well.”
In addition to the reduced footprint below the surface, the facility relieves pressure on the urban living space of its popular neighbouring shopping and restaurant district by ensuring residents can make use of a sufficient number of parking spaces inside the building at all times.
Completed in November 2021, the 149-metre building is one of Australia's most modern Skyscrapers, with residents now set to use a modern and intuitive smartphone app developed by Lödige Industries to retrieve their cars.
With a payload of up to 2.5 tonnes per vehicle, the system can handle all common cars and SUVs, with users only needing to drop off their vehicle at one of a total of five transfer cabins.
From this point everything is automatic. The transfer cabin’s gate closes, and the car is transported to the parking level, where it is moved by flat robots, the 'Lödige Shifter' onto a horizontal transfer vehicle and delivered to a free parking space. Up to 60 percent more cars can be placed in the same space in comparison to conventional parking structures, with approximately 90 vehicles parked or retrieved per hour.