40 Years of RBG: Expanding our Presence in Sydney in 1996
After 40 years it is still all about time!
Brisbane Key People; passion attracts good people and good clients alike.
ICD Brookfield Place picks up a significant award at MEED Projects Awards 2022
ICD-Brookfield Place has won the most significant award at this year’s MEED Project Awards -Project of the Year 2022 across all sectors and regions within MENA – as well as picking up the win for Building Project of the Year in MENA. An amazing result for this landmark project in Dubai.
Continue readingInternational Womens Day
A day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, as well as a call to action for accelerating equality.
Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day.
Continue readingNew Beginnings in an RBG Engineered Office
Welcome to the new Robert Bird Group (RBG) headquarters on Level 8 of Jubilee Place in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane! RBG is very excited to have established our home in this remarkable new building which our engineers designed and consulted on right through construction. Thanks to a massive team effort we are now unpacked and settled into the thoughtfully designed and furnished space.
Continue readingNZ National Seismic Hazard Model Update
RBG has been operating in New Zealand for over 6 years. Our leadership team is made up primarily of NZ-trained engineers who have returned to NZ after working abroad in one of our many RBG offices across the globe. We are engineers who ‘grew up’ on seismic engineering, refining and expanding our technical skills while working on some of the world’s most complex engineering projects.
Continue readingRBG Reveal is now available online!
Reveal is a Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) interactive platform that enables project stakeholders to experience and collaborate on built assets that are either completed or under construction in a virtual environment. We are excited to announce that RBG Reveal is now available online via our new portal!
RBG is committed to ensuring our clients have access to industry-leading visualisation technologies for the best possible project outcomes. Embracing the best digital tools to deliver the VDC process, we have been working hard behind the scenes on our latest VDC initiative, RBG Reveal Online.
Continue readingThe Oxlade – Project Milestone
December saw the final pour of the Hydrostatic Basement floor at The Oxlade (80 Oxlade Drive, New Farm). This is a significant milestone for the team on-site and marks the end of a challenging excavation process through very difficult soil conditions. The Basement 3 Hydrostatic slab is typically 800mm thick with 1200mm thickenings and a section of a 2000 deep raft which enables the structures to span over a heritage sewer.
The Oxlade is a high-end luxury apartment building, architecturally designed by Bureau Proberts for developer Seymour Group. The site sits on top of a heritage sewer that can’t be disturbed or surcharged, so as a result the hydrostatic slab not only retains the hydrostatic pressure but transfers two cores, a shear wall, and 8 columns across a two-meter deep raft. The deep raft spans to a series of sleeved piles which run to a depth of circa 30m below raft level to transfer the loads to the underside of the heritage sewer. Congratulations to the team on this milestone! It will be a great project to follow.
Continue readingWe are serious about industrial decarbonisation
We have grown our commitment to industrial decarbonisation by joining Climate Group‘s SteelZero initiative, alongside our pledge to ConcreteZero back in October 2022.
SteelZero members pledge to use 50% low-emission steel by 2030, which sets a clear pathway to using 100% net zero steel by 2050. Our prior commitment to ConcreteZero is our promise to use 30% low-emission concrete by 2025 and 50% by 2030, with a long-term target of using 100% net zero concrete by 2050. We are excited to be able to influence the design and use of concrete and steel across a wide range of built environment projects.