Brisbane 2032 Games: Creating a sustainable legacy
Brisbane 2032 Games: Creating a sustainable legacy
Sustainable infrastructure and venues
Inspired to deliver a climate positive Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we aim to minimise adverse impacts on the environment and create venues, facilities and infrastructure that leave a lasting social, economic and environmental legacy for Brisbane and other hosts in regional areas.
Transitioning infrastructure to extend its productive life can stimulate positive transformation and can convert dysfunctional environments into future-proofed, healthy, functioning, well-loved places where people proudly live, work and play.
Focused on the delivery and constructability of projects, GHD streamlines and connects technical, commercial and delivery solutions. Working across the full asset life cycle of projects, we provide flexible delivery models and innovative contracting strategies which expertly control budgets and delivery schedules.
GHD offers clients fully integrated project delivery services including project management, engineering, procurement and construction management services. We also provide architectural services, urban and precinct design services, crowd movement and operational event overlays, last mile design and have experience with a variety of contracting models.
People mobility and security
GHD Movement Strategies is the world’s leading specialist people movement consultancy offering unparalleled technical advice to help our clients in the design, security and operational planning of large scale events.
We provide advice on how to achieve design and commercial objectives, whilst adding value to our clients’ project, assets and business. We apply a unique mix of dynamic crowd modeling and security simulation tools to inform: overlay and design planning, safety and security standards, incident response planning, construction phasing, transport planning and the optimisation of visitor experiences.
Since 2000, our work has covered mass attendance events including: every Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cups, Commonwealth Games, Rugby World Cups and the design of many large scale sports, entertainment and transport precincts.
Our extensive global event experience has afforded us a unique and living understanding of how visitor behavior varies, and how to build these insights into sustainable and secure design processes.
Thriving places and spaces
Increasingly complex social and environmental challenges like the Brisbane 2032 Games requires sophisticated and integrated community solutions for lasting benefit. At GHD, we believe that participating communities and their host cities are at their best when they are connected, resilient, productive and inspired.
- Connected: Seamlessly connecting people, goods and services via virtual and physical networks.
- Resilient: Protecting the assets and systems we rely upon to be resilient to threats and ongoing change.
- Productive: Improving workforce and asset performance to underpin community-wide productivity.
- Inspired: Creating investable, inspiring and lovable places that foster belonging and identity.
Our commitment to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games aims to help clients achieve the right balance of these four, integrated enablers to deliver thriving places and spaces that are inclusive for all and puts people first and is inclusive for all.
Our teams of local and global technical specialists seek to balance the disparate and often competing needs of communities to solve problems and harness opportunities for our clients and showcase innovative thinking.
Equity and social inclusion
The Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games represents a powerful opportunity to spotlight and embed greater social inclusion programs that embrace all people across age, culture, gender and ability.
In particular, GHD recognises the opportunity to present to the world, an Australia where the cultures, histories and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are better understood, recognised and respected.
We aim to be inclusive in how we approach the delivery of our clients projects and the community solutions we collaboratively design, in ways
that advance First Nations people, give a voice to young people and empower people with disability.
We are committed to supporting a living legacy in South East Queensland that includes: world class accessibility, engagement of next generation leaders and a framework that advances and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.