Madison Reaches New Heights with Brisbane Skytower Project

July 31, 2017

Skytower is the tallest residential tower in Brisbane soaring to 90 storeys above the heart of the CBD. Stylish in design, the building is also benefiting from the latest technology infrastructure that supports integrated communications and smart building services capabilities.

Project Details

ClientBillbergia/ AMP Capital
Systems IntegratorHoneywell
BuilderHutchinson
Project Value$366M
Weeks to Build160 weeks
Apartments1,128

The Project

Skytower is the tallest residential tower in Brisbane soaring to 90 storeys above the heart of the CBD.

Stylish in design, the building is also benefiting from the latest technology infrastructure that supports integrated communications and smart building services capabilities.

Madison Technologies has a long history in structured cabling solutions and Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) design.

With an ever-increasing demand or high capacity, high reliability networks, GPON is being used as the building services platform of choice for data collection and management.

Honeywell partnered with Madison to supply and support the technologies provided for the project.

Madison provided design and commissioning assistance utilising the latest in GPON equipment and fibre optic cabling, connectors and passive devices.

The residents will benefit from extremely fast and reliable broadband services with advanced integration to building management services over the same network infrastructure.

The Benefits

By implementing a GPON solution, Skytower will benefit from:

  • High speed, reliable integrated network infrastructure
  • Decreased network power consumption
  • Reduced floor space requirements
  • Scalable and secure communications