PROJECTS
The Koala Beach Estate -
Pottsville NSW
Whitsunday Green
Golden Mountain Resort/Blue
Ocean City
Cadence Ripley -Trunk Sewer Project
The Gold Coast Rapid Transit
Project (Stage1)
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Cadence Ripley -Ripley Valley
The Koala Beach Estate is a residential development located between Pottsville and Hastings Point on the Tweed Coast in north eastern NSW. The development includes over 270 ha of bushland reserved for nature conservation and is home to at least 24 threatened species and ecological communities. From the outset, the estate has been designed to minimise impacts on flora and fauna, and residents actively contribute to the ongoing management of its biodiversity values through a special environmental levy.
Under the Koala Beach project structure Alaister’s role was senior civil engineer / project manager. Alaister worked closely on a day to day basis with the developer’s project manager. Alaister was responsible for all engineering design elements on the project including: engineering studies and reports, working with other project consultants and specialists and
oversee all civil design and construction works to ensure that standards are maintained for technical performance, constructability, environmental compliance.
Golden Mountain Resort/Blue Ocean City is the key project being master planned and developed by Yantai Golden Mountain Resort Development Co. Ltd. The project is located in Shandong Province adjacent to T-Bay on the Yellow Sea.
This coastal area of the Shandong Province has been recognized as a vital development node for this Province concentrating on the marine economy, science and the development of marine resources, and cultivation of the marine industries so as to create the Shandong Peninsula Blue Ocean Economic Zone. Golden Mountain Resort/Blue Ocean City are a key strategy of this Economic Zone focusing on the revamp of the coast, and providing a new modern water city (400,000 pop) for the greater community to live and work while still living in harmony with the environment.
The lead Engineering consultant was appointed to assist the Australian master-planner architect with the master plan visions of this new world class development. Alaister’s role was to provide input into all engineering elements including public transport layouts, major road networks, bridges, dredging, revetment walls, transport of goods, solid waste, stormwater treatment, flooding reports, storm tide & typhoon assessments, utility services overview & city canal system similar to San-Antonio, Texas.
Alaister had to seek advice from various specialists and assemble information into presentable and concise documentation. The project also involved considerable research and planning to provide a design guideline for the city. This included recommendations on electric watercraft for the inner-city canals to minimize noise and pollution. All our visionary work and engineering reports had to be translated into Chinese. Alaister attended a workshop in China with the project architect to present the vision for the new city.
The Gold Coast Rapid Transit (GCRT) Project is an ambitious, city-changing infrastructure project that aims to integrate new and existing transport systems, support urban regeneration and facilitate sustainable transit-oriented development.
Stage 1 of the Project comprises a 13km light rail system between the new Gold Coast University Hospital on Parklands Drive in Southport and the Broadbeach South Station adjacent to Pacific Fair Shopping Centre. The GCRT Project will bring together the world’s best infrastructure and urban design solution to create a vibrant and bold future for the City. The project value is $2 Billion.
Alaister’s role on the project was to work directly with Cardno in the Project Control Group.
This small team is responsible for the project delivery of the Cardno teams. The project involves over 60 Cardno team members across 16 business units and management of 3 sub consultants with a total of 50 staff.
Alaister had to establish planning for the project office setup, resource planning, computer management systems to be deployed like Autodesk Vault, coordinate equipment and supplies to the design suite, develop information sharing systems to be deployed, writing design management plans, writing quality control procedures, reviewing health and safety documents, preparing templates for reports during project works, developing project number system, staff induction documents, preparing programs for delivery of services, writing project newsletter updates and review contract documentation to ensure compliance with project documentation.
Whitsunday Green is a 283ha green field site at Cannon Valley in North Queensland. The 2500 lot resort- style residential project will include a golf course and country club, a village centre, retail and commercial precincts. It will be developed over the next 15 to 20 years. The project, on Proserpine –Shute Harbour Rd, will be the first major master planned community north of the Sunshine Coast and will be North Queensland largest lifestyle community. Initial works has included: Engineering master planning, sewer and water planning, bulk earthworks, new connection “Link Road” into the 250 lot residential precinct called "Poppy Hills".
The project required working with other project consultants and specialists. Alaister provided project direction and coordination to golf, landscape, traffic, and survey, planning and power consultants. Alaister ensured that standards were maintained for technical performance, constructability, and environmental compliance.
Cadence Ripley -Trunk Sewer Project Teamed with SCG Urban and AV Jennings (client) to undertake the construction management for a new DN 450 gravity trunk sewer located in the Ripley Valley. (Project value $2.4M) The project has involved liaison with key stake holders including Queensland Urban Utilities, Ipswich City Council and landowners to reach acceptable solutions.
The DN 450 main is aligned through a sensitive environmental zone with remnant vegetation so considerable detailed assessments had to made on the best route. SCG Urban managed all specialist consultants for this work.
The other key challenging design issues included the main being up to 8m in depth in some sections and very shallow in other sections where the main had to be aerial on a pipe bridge.
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Cadence Ripley -Ripley ValleyThe project is a 276-lot greenfield residential development located in Ripley Valley west of Brisbane, Queensland which is part of the Qld Priority Development Area. Teamed with SCG Urban and AV Jennings (client) to provide project and construction management services for this master planned community.
Construction involves clearing works, bulk earthworks, civil subdivisional works and trunk water and sewer infrastructure. Coordination with members of the consultant team and authorities was a critical part of the services provided. Preparing strategy reports on trunk sewer for assessment by Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) was which one of the project critical milestone items undertaken. Preparing construction tender documentation and managing the tender and construction phases for each stage of the works. Total contract value $ 22M across 8 contracts. Phase 1 of the earthworks $1.2M contract involves 120,000m3 of cut to fill.