Subdivision Archives - Ardill Payne

Ballina RSL Club

Posted on December 14, 2017March 15, 2018 by Michael Terlich

The Brief:
The client came to us wanting vertically integrated design and planning services to provide high quality, value for money structural and civil solutions for a range of community and commercial building programs. The works have involved:

The $6m refurbishment of the entire Club
The $1m Riverside Boardwalk around the Club
The $3m expansion to the gaming and community meeting rooms

Key Challenges:
The key challenges we could see for this project were providing a riverside boardwalk which suited community needs, as well as protecting the club’s security and budget requirements.

Providing structural solutions for the refurbishment and expansion contracts to a modified building form, which had not been previously well documented.

Solutions:
We overcame these challenges by the development of a range of maritime solutions, costing them and discussing suitability with all stakeholders. APP subsequently called tenders and supervised the construction of the adopted boardwalk solution.

For the refurbishment and expansion projects the solution was to establish core structural solutions which had redundancy and flexibility worked into the detail for amendment during construction. This, coupled with a close working relationship with the builder and architect during construction overcame the unforeseen structural problems typical of refurbishment work

Key Features:
The key features/points of difference to mention of the project are the development of value for money maritime solution which met community and client requirement, and delivery of on time and on budget building projects for complex refurbishment and expansion projects in a large operating club environment.

APP's Role:
Ardill Payne & Partners were responsible for the Civil and Structural Engineering, Survey and Town Planning, and also supplied Project Management services for the maritime component.

Timeframe:
With involvement in Master Planning, Regulatory Planning, Design and Construction processes, the projects of upgrading the premises extended from 2 to 3 years.

Budget:
The overall budget for the projects was $10m.

Avalon Estate

Posted on October 27, 2017March 15, 2018 by Michael Terlich

The Brief:
The client came to us wanting cost effective and efficient service to produce quality living environments

Key Challenges:
The key challenges we could see for this project were sewerage servicing technicalities, due to site topography, as well as, due to the location, bush fire consideration in the town planning stage.

Solutions:
We overcame these challenges by undertaking construction of pumping station and under bore, lot design involving earthworks, rock retaining walls and key asset protection zones.

Key Features:
The key features/points of difference to mention are, the easy walk to Wollongbar Public School and bus route to secondary schools. The quality built homes throughout the estate that complement the picturesque established surrounds, and fully serviced blocks including underground power and NBN connection.

APP's Role:
Ardill Payne & Partners undertook the Surveying, Town Planning and Civil Engineering for the project. Preparation of technical specification for all subdivision works including earthworks, roadworks, storm water drainage, water reticulation and associated works including 300m under-bore gravity sewer diversion. Preparation of contract and tender documentation. Contract administration and supervision of all works.

Timeframe:
This project is ongoing.

Ballina Heights Estate

Posted on October 11, 2017September 6, 2018 by Michael Terlich

The Brief:
The client came to us needing a Master-planned Community Development run with an Integrated Project Management and Development Services team under the one roof.

Key Challenges:
The key challenges we could see for this project were extension of all core infrastructure services from Ballina to the new village site some 5 km distant. On site problems have included highly sloping ground, striking large seams of rock, considerable settlement in alluvial floodplains and coordinating bulk earthworks in urban communities

Solutions:
We overcame these challenges by working with Council and Contractors to develop efficient and project sympathetic infrastructure solutions for the range of problems encountered. Specifically this has involved regular Council executive meetings, the Integrated Management System, resourcing and re-engineering earthworks materials for the 750,000 cubic metres of material moved around the site. Only 50,000 cubic metres were imported. Project staging to control ground consolidation.

Key Features:

Over 750 quality Residential Lots
Sporting Facilities
Cycle-way to Ballina
Environmental works
Parks and BBQ amenities

APP's Role:
Ardill Payne & Partners are responsible for the Master Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Survey and Integrated Project Management of the project. Long term Project Management of a new village involving complex management, engineering foundation and infrastructure solutions.

Timeframe:
The project is ongoing with a 25-year timeframe to completion.

Budget:
The budget for the project is $95m.

Ramada Hotel & Suites

Posted on September 15, 2017March 15, 2018 by Michael Terlich

The Brief:
The client came to us needing Environmental and Maritime Engineering solutions. This involved full site remediation and stabilisation of the river bank adjacent to the site.

Key Challenges:
The key challenges we could see for this project were remediating a site in the middle of town and stabilising the river bank of the Richmond River.

Solutions:
We overcame these challenges by site control of the remediation process and deploying our underwater engineers to work with diving contractors to develop an armoring solution which would reduce the instability of the river bank.

Budget:
The budget for this project was $35m.

Lennox Head Community Centre

Posted on September 15, 2017March 15, 2018 by Michael Terlich

The Brief
The client came to us wanting a Community Focus Point providing sports and library facilities, presented as a highly sculptured building to enhance the built environment of Lennox Head.

Key Challenges
The key challenges we could see for this project were the complex building shapes and incorporation of building services within these shapes.

Solutions
We overcame these challenges by detailed design and documentation skills and close working relationship with the builder.

Timeframe
The project was completed in 2 years.

Key Features

Curvilinear roof
Highly sculptured building
Library
Five meeting spaces
Children’s area
Multi-use auditorium
Sports areas

APP’s Role
Ardill Payne & Partners undertook the Structural & Civil Design of the project. The original concept design for the Lennox Head Community Centre was completed by Greenway Hirst Page Architects. Archimages Architecture provided construction documentation and contract administration services.
APP completed the detailed design and documentation for the Community Centre, including access roads, car parking areas, storm water management and certification.

Key Parties:
Original concept design completed by Greenway Hirst Page Architects, and Archimages Architecture provided construction documentation and contract administration services.

Habitat Development

Posted on September 15, 2017September 6, 2018 by Michael Terlich

The Brief
The client came to us needing high level Structural and Civil Engineering Design to address complex infrastructure, servicing problems and value engineered solutions for the buildings. The brief was expanded to provide on-site construction and overall Project Management.

Key Challenges
As Project Managers, the key challenges we could see for this project were to provide a cost effective filling and ground preparation solution, and then to control a changing product and architectural solution for a new residential and commercial market, providing the first optic fibre and formal live-work precinct in Byron Bay.

Solutions
We overcame these design challenges by detailed surface and subsurface water modelling to resolve storm water and undertaking the ground works on a day works arrangement, and supervising the works directly in a risk sharing contract. Project Management solutions involved an Integrated project management team being embedded with the design and construction team.

Key Features

Nil increase in storm water runoff quality and quantity
Live/Work Residential dwellings
Commercial / Retail precinct
Shared meeting rooms for development owners & tenants
Access to National Broadband Network
Embedded energy network with solar power & battery time-shift capabilities
Recreational facilities including 25m lap pool
Electric car charging spaces and GoGet car sharing

APP’s Role
Integrated Project Management, Value Engineering & Land Title Surveying

APP’s role as project managers was multi-faceted. Our conventional PM role involved coordinating approvals and design, calling tenders and supervising construction. The developers of Habitat engaged with APP’s suggestion to use the integrated management system and value engineering process to risk share, defuse commercial conflict and obtain maximum value from building and designers shared input. Results to date have been excellent.

Civil works involved $7.5m of detailed infrastructure work and was constructed on time, and $0.5m under budget. Building works are currently under way. At completion the building component will consist of a $12m commercial precinct and $70m domestic and live-work areas.

VE and IPM Attributes for Habitat:

Leading a collaborative team approach in design development
Tender and Contract Administration by APP Risk Sharing Contract
Value Engineering exercise between Tender and Construction phase
Coordinating APP’s in-house design team as well as external architects, service engineers, other specialist consultants and builders
Liaising with Council and PCA to obtain timely approvals
Community and Strata Title Subdivisions

Timeframe
The project has been running since 2014 and will be completed in 2020.

Key Parties
The key parties involved with this project are Agcorp, DFJ, and MDA.

Budget
The budget for this project is $100m.