List of developments by Grocon

This is a list of developments by Grocon, an Australian construction company, sorted by date completed.

Project	Image	City, State	Country	Date completed (or expected date)	Height		Description	Source
					m	ft
Grand Hyatt Melbourne		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	c. 1986			Located at 123 Collins Street, this 34-level hotel offers 550 guest rooms and suites	[1]
101 Collins Street		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	1991	260	850	Commercial office skyscraper that was the tallest building in Melbourne for five months only	[2]
120 Collins Street		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	1991	265	869	Art Deco commercial office skyscraper with a granite façade that was the tallest building in Melbourne until 2006; and was the tallest buildings in Australia until 2005	[3]
ANZ Global Headquarters		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	1993	172	564	Modificatihos to the former global headquarters located at 380 Collins Street, that comprised a 37-storey post-modern commercial office skyscraper on the site of Verdon Chambers	[4]
Crown Towers		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	1997	153	502	Located at 8 Whiteman Street on Melbourne's Southbank and part of the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex, the hotel was the recipient of the Master Builders Association Award in 1998 and upon its 1997 completion, the largest casino in the Southern Hemisphere	[5][6][7]
Pixel Building		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia				Using carbon neutral Pixelcrete concrete, Australia's first carbon neutral office building. Pixel was awarded the Best Sustainable Building Award from the Master Builders Association and received the Premier's Sustainability Award for the Built Environment	[8][9]
Queen Victoria Village		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia				A$600 million urban village precinct surrounding Melbourne Central railway station which received the Australian Property Institute Property Development Award	[10]
Shell House		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia				Shell's Australian headquarters and awarded a Property Council of Australia certification
Rialto Towers		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	270	890	Twin tower complex and the second tallest concrete building in the Southern Hemisphere
SECV Project		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia
Telstra Centre		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia
WTC Wharf		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia					[11]
1 Bligh Street		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia				Six Star-rated office and winner of the Best Tall Building Award in Asia & Australasia for 2012 in the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Skyscraper Awards	[12]
Common Ground		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia				Equity housing development in both Sydney and Brisbane and Urban Design Institute of Australia Award for Affordable Development winner	[13]
Governor Phillip Tower		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	227	745	Commercial office complex in Sydney's prestigious north-eastern CBD precinct and Property Council of Australia National Award winner
Horizon Apartments		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	144	472	Residential apartment complex in Darlinghurst
General Post Office		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia				No 1 Martin Place – a commercial office development of an historic precinct surrounding the General Post Office in Sydney
The Peak Apartments		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	166	545	Residential apartment complex in Haymarket
World Tower		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	230	750	Skyscraper in Sydney, briefly Australia's tallest residential building and recipient of the 2004 Bronze Emporis Skyscraper Award	[14]
480 Queen Street		Brisbane, Queensland	Australia				Six Star-rated office complex, anchored by BHP Billiton and Herbert Smith Freehills in the Brisbane CBD	[15]
The Oracle		Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia				A$850 million development at Broadbeach	[16]
Soul		Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia				An Australian Institute of Building National Professional Excellence Building and Cbus High Rise Award recipient, the 243-metre (797 ft) residential tower completed on the Gold Coast's waterfront in 2012	[17]
Parklands, the 2018 Commonwealth Games Athletes Village		Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia				An A$550 million development featuring 1,252 dwellings with a mix of apartments and townhouses, a 5,840-square-metre (62,900 sq ft) retail precinct, green and landscaped spaces built around a 'Village Heart'. Strategically located on prime real estate within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct, 3 kilometres (2 mi) from Southport CBD and 5 kilometres (3 mi) from Surfers Paradise.	[18][19]
Grollo houses		Darwin, Northern Territory	Australia				Ground-level and split-level homes recognisable by the small protrusion on the roof which held the water heater. These houses were built in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy as an effective means of providing housing for Darwin's population. The houses were designed by Leo Hammond, a Melbourne architect.	[20]
Melbourne Cricket Ground Northern Stand Redevelopment		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2006			Redevelopment for the 2006 Commonwealth Games	[21]
Eureka Tower		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2006	298	978	At the time of its construction, the world's tallest residential tower and awarded the Urban Design Award in the Victorian Architecture Awards	[22]
Rose Tower		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2007			The world's tallest hotel until 2012	[23]
Almas Tower		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2009	360	1,180	A skyscraper – the tallest building in Dubai at the time of completion
AXA Centre		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2009			Located at 750 Collins Street, the redeveloped A$240 million ten-storey building in Melbourne’s Docklands was the winner of the 2009 Property Council of Australia Victorian Award for Office Developments	[24][25]
Media House		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2009	40	131	Located at 655 Collins Street, the commercial office building served as the publication centre for The Age, and adjoined Southern Cross railway station. The building was the 2012 Colliers Award recipient for Best Office Development	[26][27][28]
Burj Khalifa		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2009	830	2,720	An assisting contractor for the world's tallest residential tower, including an office, hotel and observation tower
Elizabeth Street Common Ground		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2010			Located at 660 Elizabeth Street. this eleven-storey, 131-room community housing initiative was built at cost with the support of the Victorian and the Australian governments	[29][30]
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (AAMI Park)		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2010			30,500 capacity soccer, rugby league and rugby union in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct	[31]
KPMG House		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	pre-2011			Formerly the T&G Building, located at 161 Collins Street, Grocon redeveloped the building as commercial offices for KPMG, and has subsequently been occupied by other tenants.	[32][33][34][35]
Etihad Towers		Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	2011			A complex of five towers that comprise offices, apartments and a hotel	[36]
Elite Residence		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2012			A DH1 billion residential skyscraper project in the Dubai Marina	[36]
Princess Tower		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2012	404	1,325	A residential-only skyscraper, that was the world's tallest residential building from 2012 to 2015	[37][38]
ANZ Bank Centre		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	2012	195	640	Commercial office tower and Sydney headquarters for ANZ, Herbert Smith Freehills and Boston Consulting Group; winner of the Master Builders Association Safety Award, located at 161 Castlereagh Street, Sydney	[39]
Australian Taxation Office		Brisbane, Queensland	Australia	2013			Brisbane offices for the Australian Taxation Office at 55 Elizabeth Street	[40]
Legion House		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	2013			Six Star zero-carbon refurbishment at 161 Castlereagh Street	[8][41]
Australian Taxation Office		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2014			Melbourne offices for the Australian Taxation Office in Box Hill	[42]
Emporium Melbourne		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2014			A retail space neighbouring Melbourne Central railway station built on the site of the old Myer Emporium on Lonsdale Street between Swanston and Elizabeth streets	[43][44]
150 Collins Street		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2014			12-storey office building comprising Westpac's corporate headquarters in Melbourne	[45][46]
Central Market Project		Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	2014			Designed by Foster + Partners initially as a three tower complex, the global financial crisis resulted in the cancelation of the hotel tower	[47]
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC)		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2015			An A$1.2 billion public-private partnership with the Victorian Government for a cancer treatment precinct in Parkville	[48][49]
Greenwich, Fairfield		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	2019			An A$40 million medium-density residential development in Fairfield that comprises 77 apartments through a mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments inclusive of social housing, with adjacent retail tenancies	[50]
Twenty95		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	2019			Mixed-use redevelopment in Manly comprising residential and retail components on the site of a Telstra Exchange, featuring 490 square metres (5,300 sq ft) of commercial / retail net lettable area, 26 apartments, a multi-level basement car stacker and a refurbished Telstra Exchange	[51]
World One		Mumbai	India	2020	442	1,450	A residential complex that, at the time of its completion, was the tallest residential complex on the subcontinent	[37]
Pentominium		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	On hold since 2011	516	1,693	An all-residential development; one of the tallest of its kind in the world	[52]
Northumberland		Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Contract terminated December 2020			Located in Collingwood and designed by John Wardle Architects, The Northumberland development was to include a twelve-level office building and a companion five-level office building with a ground floor café. Fund managers withdrew their support of Grocon when the company entered voluntary administration.	[53][54]
The Ribbon		Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	Contract terminated December 2020			The A$700 million 24-storey redevelopment in the heart of Darling Harbour was planned to provide a new hotel, retail, apartments and commercial hub. Following the demolition of the existing IMAX building, the new building is planned to comprise a reinforced concrete structural steel structure that will cantilever over the public domain, Wheat Road and Harbour Street. The redeveloped building was to comprise approximately 1,799 square metres (19,360 sq ft) of retail, 3,217 square metres (34,630 sq ft) of entertainment, 450 square metres (4,800 sq ft) of commercial office space, 18,260 square metres (196,500 sq ft) of serviced apartments, and 30,820 square metres (331,700 sq ft) for a W Hotel.	[55][56]

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External links

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