HIC House

Three Buildings, One Campus

134 Reed Street is a three-building campus on an elevated island site above Lake Tuggeranong, at the edge of Canberra’s largest town centre.
16,266.10 sqm across three connected buildings. 338 car spaces. An 18,600 sqm site with three street frontages and one identity.
A 5.5-star NABERS Energy rating, a comprehensively renewed base building, and security-zoned environments built for government operations. For an organisation that wants a home of its own there is nothing else like it in Canberra.

The Opportunity

Main Administration Building — 3 Levels
The address and the arrival. Set back from Reed Street behind landscaped grounds, with entry through glass security doors into the full-height atrium. Each upper level carries a central service core — two passenger lifts, two sets of fire stairs, amenities and services — with office accommodation around the perimeter.
Total building size – 7,981.3sq m

Miller Building — 4 Levels
Added in 1995 and reached by the enclosed walkway from the Administration Building. Ground plus three upper levels, served by two passenger lifts.
Total building size – 4,157.7sq m

Computer Building — 2 Levels
Built to house technology operations and most recently configured with data halls and an operations centre. Internal staircase and a 3,500 kg passenger/goods lift to all three levels, its own isolated plant, and a covered loading dock.
Total building size – 4,127.1sq m

Most Buildings Don’t Have

134 Reed Street was developed to support technology-intensive operations and retains infrastructure fundamentals that are difficult, costly and slow to establish in an existing urban environment.
● Five 1,000 kVA transformers — 5 MVA installed capacity
● Dual power authority feeds providing supply resilience
● Uninterruptible Power Supply and diesel generator serving the Computer Building
● Dedicated 24/7/365 cooling to the Computer Building — three 500 kW air-cooled chillers, chilled water economiser and condensing boiler, isolated from campus plant
● Established service pathways and campus-wide sub-metering
● Dual street frontage with access to large-diameter water infrastructure
● Covered loading dock designed for truck access
● Crown Lease purpose clause supports Data centre type uses

The climate supports it. Canberra’s cool ambient conditions enable energy-efficient cooling strategies and materially lower cooling energy consumption than warmer Australian markets.