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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
RBG, in collaboration with Cimolai Rimond Middle East, developed the Construction Methodology and Erection Sequence (CMES) for the Al Wasl Trellis, simulating the construction of the Trellis with a Digital Twin whilst also implementing predictive and live health monitoring of the strand jacking operation for the 900t ‘crown’ lifted in September 2019. RBG was awarded Consultant of the Year for its positive contribution to the centrepiece of Expo 2020.
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At Robert Bird Group, powerful women are breaking through the glass ceiling and striving for success, with greater motivation than ever before. Inspiring females are proving to themselves and others around them, that they have the skills, knowledge, experience and passion to lead and develop teams on some of the world’s most ambitious projects. Combining positive stakeholder engagement, adept commercial management of resources and specialist technical prowess, these women offer bright perspective to RBG’s service offering. Our proactive Diversity & Inclusion Committee, working closely with the People & Culture Team and supported by the Leadership Group, has enabled a development platform that focuses on opportunities for women. With this platform we envisage sustained growth in female staff numbers, across all levels, for the foreseeable future. Below each gives her own insight as to what is it like to be a woman working in the construction industry.
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Kicking 2021 off to a great start! Three Robert Bird Group projects have been recognised as an ‘Award of Excellence’ winner in multiple categories at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat – CTBUH Awards Program 2021.
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Two Robert Bird Group projects named in the global top-ten – including the number one ranking – at the prestigious International Skyscraper Awards hosted by Emporis.
Robert Bird Group (RBG) is thrilled to report that two of its iconic projects have been nominated in the global top-ten best new skyscrapers in the world, in the 2021 Emporis International Skyscraper Awards.
One Barangaroo in Sydney, Australia has been named at number one in the top-ten list of best new skyscrapers completed across the globe in the past year, winning the overall annual award. At 890 feet (272 metres) and 71 storeys in height, One Barangaroo is the tallest building in Sydney and fourth tallest in Australia, offering expansive views of Sydney Harbor and the Opera House. One Barangaroo was developed by Crown Resorts and built by Lendlease, with architecture by Wilkinson Eyre.
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