Echuca Library
Project Type: New BuildingBuilding Type: Standalone
Completed: 2012
Echuca Library was completed in 2012 and is a central community place that is warm, inviting, friendly and accessible. The building is respectful to the existing war memorial and to the natural environment.
Key Features:
- Single story with exceptional views of the riverine environment, as well as being a beautiful backdrop for the war memorial.
- Old wharf timber has been used as features on the outside, a magnificent ironbark canopy leading up to the entrance and an interesting book feature at the front.
- Indigenous artwork
- After hours access is achieved by having the meeting room at the front that can be closed off from the rest of the building.
- A beautifully appointed parents room which was funded by medicare customers.
Funding Grants & Contributions:
- $4.6 m Shire of Campaspe
- $20,000 Echuca Lions Club
- $50,000 Friends of the Library
- $500,000 Living Libraries Fund, State Government
Library Details:
| Library Name | Campaspe Regional Library Echuca |
| Organisation/ Council/ Shire Name | Campaspe |
| Type of Build | New Building |
| Architect or Designer | Brian Matheson, Perrot Lyon Matheson |
| Net Floor Area | 1,300 sqm |
| Total Cost of Project | 5.1 million, plus additional donations of $70,000 |
| Principal Contractor/Builder | Circon |
| Energy Rating | 4 Starts |
| Carpet & Floor Finishings | Choices Flooring Echuca |
| Furniture & Fittings | JR Richardson |
| Shelving | Eclipse, Access Interiors, Western Australia |
| Signage | Zahin Ali, Meza Signs |
| Fixed/Loose Joinery | Riverland Joinery – fixed, Polvere Kitchens Loose |
| Lighting | |
| RFID Technology | N/A |
| AV Equipment | Lectern Australia |
| Awards & Recognition | Finalist Powercor Business Awards 2013. Project Management Association of Australia – Community Building Victoria. Pierre Gorman Project 2014, State Library of Victoria |
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