Building Australia's $3.6BN Megaproject

with its soaring skyscrapers diverse economy and port positioning brisbane is no stranger to development but the new scheme at queen's wharf takes things to a different level extending across 26 hectares of land and water the project is easily the largest district development in the southern hemisphere and one of the biggest builds ever attempted in queensland faced with immense scale extreme complexity and near unfathomable levels of information this is how the team one of the world's largest construction projects is using technology to succeed [Music] brisbane is australia's third largest city a thriving business hub that grew from an initial european settlement at queen's wharf in the early 1800s now that historic site is being carefully restored and reimagined in an effort to attract more than 1.5 million extra tourists to the city and create over 8 000 jobs led by the destination brisbane consortium the 3.6 billion australian dollar mega project will see the construction of six new towers and the restoration of several heritage buildings once complete the new queen's wharf district will offer hotels apartments 12 football pitches worth of public space and a new physical link across the river to make this new city within the city a reality engineers first undertook the largest demolition and construction scheme ever attempted in central brisbane to build the structural foundations and create room for a five-story basement car park a 26 metre hole was excavated and almost half a million cubic meters of material removed the most ever recorded for an inner city project in queensland huge quantities of the material have been sent to brisbane airport for reclamation work and to help build what will be australia's first automotive precinct the b e automall with excavation completed in 2019 the development has been steadily rising across the basement and two further podium floors with the works reaching street level at the end of 2020 from there the new towers will start to rise building a new district of this scale and all next to a river in a historic city centre is extremely complex rising to the challenge the project team led by lead architect cody parker has embraced digital collaboration to plan and coordinate their vast amounts of design data working in an information modeling environment and employing 16 different software tools across 39 contributing companies from architects and engineers to contractors and suppliers information modeling allows the team to clearly organize all of the project's key information in an easy to access central place it's where the 3d models data and specifications are all kept and coordinated by the team the approach improves efficiency dramatically increases people's understanding of the project and cuts waste at queen's wharf digital engineering specialist dbm vircon has over 340 models under management and is processing 215 individual models each week it's nemechek group products that have had the biggest impact at queen's wharf while many of us may not realize it nemechek group's products are now behind much of how our world is designed built and maintained of the firm's 16 software brands four have been employed across the main stages of the project these cover the whole life cycle from planning to operation making life easier for architects engineers contractors and users alike teamworking at the design stage was enabled by graphisoft's archicad following integrated design principles architects and engineers were able to review and check the same models in real time understanding each other's intentions and picking up errors before they occurred on site the tool's open bim compatibility meant that any models could be brought in and coordinated in archicad even if they weren't produced in the software breaking down barriers and improving team working on any construction site time means money and when path for building can't be built because of a lack of clear design information or worse gets built wrong the impact can be huge to avoid such circumstances on a project as big and complex as queen's wharf the team used celibri to check design information for errors before it was issued to the contractors on site the approach de-risked a critical step saving the time and money that can be lost when errors occur on site aside from ensuring information is correct just finding and getting access to what you need on a project of this scale can be challenging especially once on site and giving everyone a level playing field to find and open what they need regardless of how digitally savvy they are is fundamental with bluebeam review coty parker has saved the team navigating thousands of physical documents by introducing a digital paperless workflow the approach has cut the time spent reviewing drawings by a staggering 50 percent while decisions involving multiple stakeholders have been taken more quickly as even newcomers to the software seem to pick it up easily it's hard to convey the volume of information that's produced on a project like queen's wharf there are 10 000 times more documents than you'd normally find on a domestic building helping the team process their data derofus was able to consolidate the huge amounts of information coming in from multiple sources keeping it all in one place and allowing users to easily access and edit it when needed [Music] while information modelling has been essential in the design and construction phases it'll play an arguably greater role once queenswharf is completed helping to manage and maintain the new district throughout its 99-year lease enabled by technology the team are now motoring towards their goal of completing the core elements in 2022 and renovating the site's heritage structures including the historic treasury building in 2024 now set to bring new life to brisbane for the second time in its history the gateway at queen's wharf powerfully demonstrates the construction sector's ability to shape our cities and trigger economic growth while highlighting the incredible teams that make it all happen through remarkable complexities with technology by their side this video and the queens wharf project were made possible by the nemechek group and its brands bluebeam derofus graphisoft and zelibri learn more at the link below and as always if you enjoyed this video and would like to get more from the definitive video channel for construction subscribe to the b1m you

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Length: 7min 10sec (430 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 13 2021