Bradmill Yarraville:
Master planned community, Francis St Yarraville, Victoria
Bradmill Yarraville Project Partners
Frasers Property bought the 26-hectare property to develop a large residential precinct on this heavily contaminated site. They required additional skill sets to those already in-house to create the best possible value from this complex project.
Development Director Services
Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure and Project Development, Urban Neighbourhoods provided client-side Development Director services. This included strategy development and advice on demolition and remediation of the site, resulting in a 2-year clean-up and refilling process.
This remediation was complex and required extensive cleanup and risk mitigation of asbestos and PFAS contamination in the buildings, soil and groundwater.
Specific services provided included strategic advice and management of:
the demolition, integrated remediation and geotechnical solutions
heavy infrastructure, demolition, remediation of soil, chemical, groundwater and building contaminants
civil and infrastructure design with geotechnical solutions for site issues
planning, facilitating and executing the approved strategy
filling and geotechnical specifications for future building foundations
specialist consultant advice in relation to audit, heritage, structural, civil and buildings
client-side representation for the delivery of the works in demolition, decontamination, infrastructure, geotechnical, fill and the EPA audit processes.
Team and system development
Urban Neighbourhoods also managed project workshops functions and managed navigating for the technical, architectural and planning teams. For future stages we developed and created new systems processes for handover to the internal development team, thus ensuring their knowledge capture and systems design were retained in-house.
Site Limitations
A former jeans factory, Bradmill Yarraville had been vacant for 15 years and was heavily contaminated from decades of chemical processing on site.
It had significant contamination from asbestos and PFAS in the buildings, soil and groundwater.
The site required significant demolition and remediation over a 2-year clean up and filling process, before building could commence.
Urban Neighbourhoods managed the demolition, remediation and geotechnical works that underpin the master-planned community of 1,000 residential homes, a community centre, parks and open space which is a benchmark for sustainability, and is industry-leading in its outcomes.
The methodology adopted in the remediation and waste stream management process recycled over 95% of the on-site material, while remediating concentrated wastes to designated EPA contaminated waste sites.
In fact, Bradmill Yarraville is aiming for a 6-Star Green Star Communities rating from the Green Building Council of Australia, representing world leadership in social and environmental design.
‘Leaving teams with greater skills and knowledge is an essential part of our process.’
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