Project Description

Kai Tak Sports Park is the largest sports project in Hong Kong. The project comprises of a 50,000 seat Main Stadium with retractable roof, a 10,000 seat Indoor Sports Centre and Arena and a 5,000 seat Public Sports Ground.

Robert Bird Group was engaged by Hip Hing Engineering Co. to provide Construction Engineering Services, developing the Construction Methodology and Erection Sequence (CMES) from conceptual through to detailed design stages. In this role, Robert Bird Group was also responsible for the detailed staged construction analysis of the Main Stadium during construction, including the design of temporary works required to strand jack over 11,000 tonnes of roof steelwork into position.

Additionally, Robert Bird Group provided Structural Engineering services for the detailed design of secondary steelwork supporting gantries, large video scoreboards, lighting, and speakers within the Main Stadium roof.

Robert Bird Group’s scope of services included:

• Technical advisory in relation to the structural design of the Main Stadium roof and retractable drive system. This included value engineering on different roof framing arrangements and finite element analysis for verification of alternative connection details.
• Development and documentation of the CMES for the Main Stadium roof from concept stage (at the tender support stage), detailed design stage and construction stage. This included the identification of temporary works, construction equipment, typhoon mitigation measures and assessment of potential fit-up risks.
• Detailed staged construction analysis of the Main Stadium roof to verify the strength and stability of the roof throughout the erection sequence, assess movements and fit-up of connections, and to provide residual construction effects to the project’s permanent works engineer.
• Detailed design of a heavy-duty, modular, temporary tower system (including their foundations) used for the strand jacking of the mega trusses of the fixed roof (approximately 6,000t) followed by the two (2) fully clad, retractable roof panels (each weighing approximately 2,500t).
• Utilisation of Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) modelling in Robert Bird Group’s in-house platform, Reveal, to document the CMES and temporary works.
• Detailed design of secondary steelwork, including access gantries, support of MEP and the supports for the stadiums seven (7) large video scoreboards.