Client
Translink
Year
2015
Value
$2 million
Location
Brisbane, Queensland
ADG were able to add significant value in their role as the lead consultant on this multidisciplinary project in one of the busiest locations in the Brisbane Road Network.
Due to flooding issues associated with the site, the bus driver facility was required to be raised which had not been done before.
ADG were able to move away from the specified design recommending a different flooring arrangement to be adopted, eliminating formwork erection saving significant time and money for the client, and ADG incorporated lighting and entry door designs that were again a departure from specified design.
Brisbane, Queensland
ADG identified:
With no existing water and sewer property connections in place, ADG came up with innovative low cost solutions that were approved by the relevant authority to enable the connections to occur. Understanding the amount and concentration of existing services in the road and the road verge on Bowen Bridge Road based on the as constructed information, ADG were able to collaborate with the client to agree on the critical importance and potential extents of the potholing required to provide robust design documentation.
ADG were able to accommodate the hydrologic conditions imposed by TMR into the bus driver facility design with minimal changes. As the building was now required to impose little or no impedance to flow and change to existing adjacent afflux levels during flood events, while catering for debris loading, ADG changed the structural support system from blockwork to a minimum number of 100 x 100 SHS’s with cross bracing on screw pile foundations. To enable to make this happen, ADG also changed the above floor level cladding to a lightweight alternative to minimise dead loads imposed on the structure, but still meeting the maintenance minimisation, hardwearing criteria outlined by the client.
The ADG team also introduced timber poles and overhead catenary into the design for the bus layover lighting and underground electrical services susceptible to impacts of tidal/flood water inundation to negate corrosion and maintenance of hot dipped galvanised iron poles and associated infrastructure. Similarly, the ADG team came up with the idea of extending the existing CCTV network on the adjacent overpass structure for the same reasons.