The $1.6 billion New Perth Stadium, now known as the Optus Stadium, is a multipurpose facility that not only holds major sporting events such as AFL, and Rugby League / Union, but also major concerts.
Boasting 60,000 seats with the potential of increasing to 70,000, The Optus Stadium is the third largest in Australia.
This iconic building sitting on the banks of The Swan River on the Burwood Peninsula, developed by Westadium Consortium led by Multiplex, with the design teams comprising of HASSELL, Cox Architecture, Arup and HKS, has become the gateway to the City of Perth, one of Australia‘s liveliest and most innovative metropolises, now the home of the country’s most popular infrastructures: Winning the Prix Versailles World Architecture Design Award in 2019 for being the world’s most beautiful sports facility.
PDC was also involved from design through to construction completion working with Multiplex to implement the overall BIM Workflow and Strategy throughout the construction and operational phases of the project.
Project Stats:
- Sixty people working for over 1.5 years
- 149 Revit files and 21GB of Data
- The biggest job was the external cladding, which came from WA’s northern landscape where you have stratified red rock
- One hundred thousand unique panels
Construction facts:
- 2,000 concrete piles were driven into the site over 12 months.
- Each pile is driven to a depth of 35m
- More than 100 contracts issued by Multiplex.
- The Stadium has five levels, at a total height of 42m.
- 21 Olympic-sized swimming pools of concrete were used to build the Stadium.
Key milestones:
- Pouring of the 1st concrete slab in mid-2015
- Eight tower cranes in place by the end of 2015
- Seat installation commenced in early 2016
- Installation of the unique bronze facade begins in early 2016
- Over 5,800 workers were directly employed during construction. Workforce peaks in early 2017.
- Grass playing service completed in mid-2017
- 36 months of construction ending in 2017
Draftech’s Involvement:
Draftech were employed by Mechanical Project Management (MPM) to set up systems to meet the strict BIM requirements and produce compliant drawings efficiently across a changing team of drafts people.
The starting point was timesheet control across the team. This provided a budget across each sector, a daily update of costs against the exact sectors worked and weekly reporting.
Next was repetitive work. In a project this size, small tasks, when applied across the project can add unnecessary strain to the budget.
For this reason, we applied the Draftech Revit Workflow System which allowed the team to produce results right away without worrying about future Standards problems.
All models were shared weekly which, at the time was awesome because, in our experience, people don’t share. This was however at the time labour-intensive and required weekly processing of all models.
Fortunately, technology has improved, and this cost has virtually disappeared on all our future BIM Management Projects we have completed and are currently working on.
Coordination was run by an impartial 3rd party who understood services coordination. This allowed for quicker decisions and fairer outcomes.
It was a privilege to be a part of a project that at the time wanted to fully embrace technology and how it can be used to benefit construction projects.
Draftech – Your Project, Our Expertise
For more details about this iconic Stadium, please explore the links below.
https://www.projectconnect.com.au/Project_Details.asp?PID=389
https://soperth.com.au/sport/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-perth-stadium-1732
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