15 Fienta Place, Darra Industrial Estate

Fienta Place is a cul-de-sac within the Darra industrial estate, situated approximately 13 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD on the Boundary Road corridor. The Darra precinct grew up around the Brisbane-Ipswich railway corridor that opened in 1876 and was first identified as the location for Brisbane's planned 'industrial garden city' at the Second Australian Town Planning Conference in 1918, with raw materials access (Ipswich coal, river port, rail) and existing brick and cement industry presence underpinning the case. The precinct's defining industrial activity was the Queensland Cement and Lime Company (QCL) cement works, established in 1914 and operating from 1917 until 1998, which at peak production produced 650,000 tonnes of cement per annum and was uniquely supplied by crushed coral dredged from Moreton Bay and delivered to a Darra plant via a 3.5 km conveyor belt from Oxley Wharf (built 1964; surviving concrete pylons listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register). Brittain's brickworks operated at Darra from 1889. After QCL closure in 1998 the cement works site was progressively redeveloped for freight, warehouse and lighter industrial uses. Modern Fienta Place facilities include high-bay tilt-panel warehouses up to approximately 1,500 sqm with corporate office components, climate-controlled production zones, raised dock and roller-door access, and three-phase power supply suited to plant and equipment operation. The precinct benefits from immediate access to the Centenary Highway, the Ipswich Motorway, the Logan Motorway and the Legacy Way tunnel, providing direct linkage from Brisbane CBD through to the Springfield and Ipswich growth regions. Water-ingress remediation on tilt-panel warehouse stock of this typology typically targets joint sealant degradation, slab-to-panel interface, parapet capping and roof-to-wall transition zones — a maintenance pattern common across the Darra and broader south-west Brisbane industrial corridor.