Holdfast Training Services Trial Blog

The New Perth Stadium faces a race to be ready for the first Australian test match of next summer – which also happens to be an Ashes year. I’m hoping I’ve contributed enough to badger a couple of hospitality tickets for the first day for some good old fashioned international relations engagement.

Throughout Phase 2 I have managed the entire services steel penetrations register and works. This involved receiving penetration requests from sub-contractors’ BIM modellers, confirming all alternative solutions have been exhausted, gaining structure approval and instructing a cutting firm to carry out the works. In the 7 months I have spent on site, over 200 penetrations have been cut in the structural steel. As the majority of these works have been completed on ‘day rates’ Multiplex is now feeling the cost of hurried structural design, which was forced through without considering the full extent of services within a stadium.

After a conversation with the Senior Services Manager, he claimed every effort was made to delay the steel frame construction so that most (if not all) service penetrations could be captured. Instead, the button was pressed acknowledging future penetrations would be required. Although not privy to exact costs, I assume the price of cutting hundreds of penetrations (and installing stiffeners) in structural steel far outweighs the cost of delaying steel fabrication over two years ago. Something for us all to consider in the future..?

Just for a bit of fun:

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