Walsh Bay (NSW)

Giving Sydney a world-class base for the arts

The refurbishment of Walsh Bay Arts and Cultural Precinct will be a vibrant hub for performing arts that will enhance Sydney’s reputation as a global cultural capital.

The redevelopment will double the arts and cultural offering at Walsh Bay, including the adaptive re-use of Pier 2/3. This redevelopment will provide new arts facilities including theatre, performance spaces, rehearsal rooms and provide a space for a range of artistic and heritage events including the Sydney Writer’s Festival and the Biennale of Sydney.

This will provide the resident companies with a world class base from which they can increase engagement with communities in Sydney and across New South Wales.

Our role

MBB provided a number of key services for the project including:

• Supplying in-house project managers for delivery of the initial planning phase and SSDA process
• Managing the procurement of consultants and services, centralised communications and support in operational and planning working groups
• Guiding the client to ensure timely completion of the EIS, SEARs lodgement and the SSDA process
• Implementing program monitoring and governance structures across planning, budget, risk and environmental impacts
• Managing and coordinating consultant inputs
• Conducting reviews of contractual and legal information
• Providing interpretation of infrastructure and major project milestones and definitions
• Providing recommendations for actions and implementation of project activities.

MBB also successfully provided resolution to previous SSDA submissions and drove value through procurement and contract management of consultants with a cost saving of $750k, halving the planning budget. MBB Coordinated the management of end-to-end procurement tasks including architectural and construction tenders, contracting and contract management (both GC21 and MW21).

Our services

• Scope and change management
• Risk management
• Program creation and management
• Budget management, review and forecasting
• Project governance and reporting
• Construction management and GC21/MW21 contract administration
• Management of SEARs lodgement and SSDA process
• EIS development and lodgement
• GC21/MW21 tender and negotiation
• Design and development (D&D) management
• Stakeholder management and consultation