In 2015 we partnered with Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest metals and mining corporation, to deliver their Perth Property Consolidation Project, the new Perth Headquarters at Central Park in Perth’s CBD.
In 2015 we partnered with Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest metals and mining corporation, to deliver their Perth Property Consolidation Project, the new Perth Headquarters at Central Park in Perth’s CBD.
The project sought to consolidate various satellite offices with existing occupied floors within Central Park across 17 contiguous floors within Central Park. Rio Tinto were looking to provide a flexible workplace for staff that encouraged agile working, improved collaboration, and promoted a sense of community, while catering for ongoing future head count fluctuations. In addition to delivery of a new agile workplace, this complex scope of work encompassed delivery of Integrated Landlords Works, a dedicated Client Reception and Meeting floor, Telepresence Facility, Café and Training Centre and relocated Main Communications Room.
On completion of a successful study floor, Rio Tinto challenged the project team to deliver the remaining 16 floors in the shortest timeframe possible, without compromise to HSE, quality or cost targets, as they wanted to provide an amazing new workplace for all Perth staff as soon as possible. This required our team to assess multiple procurement and delivery models, analyse risks and opportunities, providing Rio Tinto with various scenarios and ultimately provide a recommendation that would achieve their objectives.
The complex nature of the project called for a sophisticated procurement and delivery model. Through ongoing collaboration with the Client, extensive Consultant team, and the Landlord, the project scope was refined to provide a bespoke fit-out solution that met all time, cost and quality targets and Heads of Agreement deliverables. We developed an accelerated, staged programme that supported the rolling relocation of staff with minimal disruption.
The dual contractor delivery model enabled the 30,000m2 to be divided into smaller, staged, parallel programmes that worked within Client, Landlord and Base Building constraints, while also mitigating potential financial and procurement risks.
