South Jerrabomberra

Our Canberra team is leading a true multidisciplinary collaboration at the multiple award-winning South Jerrabomberra estate.

Services

Civil Engineering Construction Consultancy Landscape Architecture Surveying and Spatial Urban Design Visual Media Water Engineering

Client

Village Building Co.

Location

Queanbeyan, NSW

Aerial photography of civil works at South Jerrabomberra.

Spiire was engaged to provide Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Water Engineering and Visual Media services for Village Building Co.’s multiple award-winning South Jerrabomberra Estate in regional NSW.

When complete, this new precinct will incorporate approximately 1500 residential dwellings and a Local Activity Centre.

We’ve worked closely with various stakeholders including Queanbeyan Palerang City Council, adjoining developers and contractors on this significant addition to the region.

The site presented a range of challenges, including steep terrain, environmentally sensitive areas and groundwater issues. The stormwater strategy aimed to improve erosion and sediment control of existing land, while improving water quality and flooding via water sensitive urban design infrastructure.

Our local team has provided Construction Consultancy, Civil Engineering and Landscape Architecture services for a number of aspects of the estate, including the northern entry road access and major infrastructure services.

The construction of Environa Drive, which connects the community to Jerrabomberra’s Tompsitt Drive, involved building a 44-metre twin span integral bridge crossing Jerrabomberra Creek, with provisions for all trunk infrastructure to service the estate. The lead-in infrastructure projects also included a sewer pump station and associated 400kL emergency storage tank, high- and low-level water reservoirs, and more than 7km of trunk water main.

In our delivery of the detailed design of stages 1B-1E, comprising 547 residential properties, we amended a number of Development Applications due to staging/ block amendments and were able to achieve approval for these changes in record time.

With civil construction of the entire Estate 1 complete, design and construction of Estate 2 is now underway. This section will contain approximately 630 residential lots and includes the remediation of previous quarry sites and the creation of a stewardship site for the residual environment zone lands.

Our Visual Media
artists captured
the vision for
South Jerra.

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3D Visualisations

Visual Media Studio

Our Visual Media studio is working closely with our design teams to develop visual content that brings the vision for South Jerrabomberra to life.

This includes the detailed animation that captures the estate’s geographic context and key lifestyle amenities such as parks and streetscapes.

We worked with a composer to create a custom audio soundtrack to help immerse viewers in the atmosphere. Our team also developed a series of renders for marketing purposes including in outdoor advertising campaigns.

Aerial 3D visualisation of South Jerrabomberra created by Spiire Visual Media artists.

Visual Media Studio

Town Park

Our Landscape Architecture team’s work includes creating the Town Park as the centrepiece of the South Jerrabomberra estate.

The vision centres on creating a simple but strong geometric design language to give the open space a sense of structure and function. A large circular green space with a spiral of surrounding activities connects the site with its setting and provides a seamless sequence of interactions with the park’s active and landscape features.

The design integrates the community centre, learn to ride space, play space and BBQ area to provide opportunities for as wide a range of users as possible to enjoy the facilities and opportunities to enhance community participation and health and wellbeing.

Our Landscape and Civil Engineering teams worked in partnership to rationalise grading and use level changes as opportunities to create an amphitheatre and manage stormwater.

The landscape character of the park emphasises the planting of large canopy trees to reduce urban heat and provide shade for the variety of facilities. These trees were selected in collaboration with our client and the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. They reinforce the park’s geometric structure and give it year-round colour and form.

An award-winning project

Stages 1D, 1E and Reservoir

Our work in partnership with Canberra Contractors and Village Building Co. has been recognised with multiple Master Builders ACT (MBA) Awards, with Stages 1D, 1E and the High-level Reservoir winning the Civil Subdivision category at the MBA Asset Construction Hire Excellence Awards in 2023, following on from winning the $10m-$30m project value category in the MBA CCF Earth Awards.

Civil hydraulic services

Our earlier package of works, in partnership with Canberra Contractors and Village Building Co., included civil hydraulics services that won at the Master Builders and Asset Construction Hire Excellence Awards in 2022, following on from winning in the $10m-$30m project value category at the Master Builders CCF Earth Awards in 2022.

Stages 1A, 1B, 1C

Our earlier Civil Subdivision 1A, 1B and 1C works, in partnership with Canberra Contractors and Village Building Co., won in the $30m-$75m project value category at the Master Builders CCF Earth Awards in 2022.