Gympie Road Bypass Tunnel (QLD)

Helping make travel around North Brisbane easier

Gympie Road is the backbone of North Brisbane’s local traffic network and is a major arterial road linking Brisbane with Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast, making it one of Queensland’s busiest, most congested roads. Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) is working with Government to develop a business case for a Gympie Road Bypass Tunnel (GRB). GRB is a proposed 7.1km tolled road tunnel from Kedron to Carseldine in North Brisbane. It is envisaged that GRB will be developed, delivered, financed, operated and maintained by a special purpose vehicle (North Brisbane Infrastructure (NBI)), which will be managed by QIC with investment and oversight from Government.

NBI’s initial Investment Proposal to the State Government for GRB was approved, subject to a future Detailed Business Case (DBC). The Project is currently being further progressed by NBI to facilitate this DBC, with significant technical, traffic modelling, environmental and commercial workstreams underway.

Our role

MBB was engaged by QIC to provide project advisory services for the Gympie Road Bypass. The services encompass strategic project development advisory, program management and mobilisation support.

MBB has also supported NBI with implementation of the organisational design strategy, and the establishment of governance, assurance and project risk processes.

Our services

MBB Integrated with the NBI Project team to drive collaborative behaviours and support project success. Through the services, MBB has delivered:

• A risk-opportunity-weighted approach to expedite project delivery
• Robust controls and management tools to underpin project success
• High-level program and delivery optionality review
• Best-practice comparator benchmarking for program and workplan
• Executive briefing materials to support the Board Chairperson in their briefing of the incoming State Government (Ministerial- and Agency-level briefings)
• An integrated master development program, inclusive of opportunities analysis
• A project development and execution plan, including maturity assessment and development of key sub-functional plans
• Governance and assurance pathways and structures
• Mobilisation support for the project, inclusive of procurement design and execution for capability including geotechnical, monitoring, cost and stakeholder management
• General project and program management support
• Monthly presentation of findings to the NBI Board.