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BEES GET BUSY ON WORLD'S HIGHEST APARTMENT BLOCK
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Lindapter International
30/07/2008
 
How do you persuade a swarm of giant golden bees to make their home on the world's tallest residential building and not simply buzz off when they feel like it? The answer, according to the contractor responsible for mounting the installation art is Lindapter Hollo-Bolts.

The 300-metre high Eureka tower dominates the Southbank area of Melbourne, Australia, and the bees — the work of sculptor Richard Stringer — are the latest spectacular addition to the façade.

Aesthetics are everything, as far as this prestige, 92-floor apartment block is concerned. The contractor needed a means of securing the bees that would be unobtrusive as well as tough. Lindapter Hollo-Bolts fitted the bill perfectly: the ingenious patented expansion bolt design provided a simple solution for attaching to the hollow-section structural steelwork behind the facade — the bees' knees of fixings, you might say.

Lindapter's Scott Brook notes: "The space behind the façade is quite cramped. Welding the mounts into place would have been difficult. Hollo-Bolts allowed the contractor to fix them in place easily, working just on the exposed face of the steelwork."
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