Hume West Industrial Estate
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Spiire’s Canberra team provided integrated consultancy services for an 11ha industrial estate at Hume West on the ACT/ NSW border.
Client
Suburban Land Agency
Location
Canberra, ACT
A groundwater aquifer located beneath the road and verge required bespoke drainage infrastructure to be implemented, amongst other considerations, to mitigate its effects in the long term.
The site also contained large amounts of uncontrolled and unclassified stockpiled material from previous stages of Hume. This required extensive client and stakeholder negotiations to facilitate the screening and removal of over to 90,000 sqm of material.
The Hume West project required extensive contractor management and assessment of numerous variation claims due to the unknown nature of the site. In particular, relating to the management of potentially contaminated stockpiled material and numerous unexpected finds. Additionally, extensive liaison with stakeholders such as the EPA and Icon Water was required to resolve issues surrounding the removal and reuse of unapproved stockpile material and resolve issues relating to existing non-compliant infrastructure.
Spiire’s construction consultancy project team consisted of a superintendent’s representative, administering an AS 2124 contract, project director and quality assurance site surveillance officer. The project team was further supported by a local office, staffed by employees with decades of experience in development within Canberra and its surrounding regions.
Our Landscape Architecture team prepared street tree plans and drainage corridor plans for stage 2A of the the development. The environmental values of the industrial estate will be enhanced through the streetscape and drainage corridor as the landscape matures. Careful street tree selection and placement promotes optimum canopy cover throughout the streets within site constraints, while the drainage corridor will develop into an inviting and bio-diverse open space with open grassed areas, canopy trees and creek line planting.
