Projects

We deliver inspiring designs to help bring out the best performances and memorable experiences.

Bligh Tanner has practical experience designing a wide range of sport and recreation facilities that are both functional and inspirational.

Our experience includes large integrated precincts, stadiums, sports halls, cycle facilities, swimming pools, throws (javelin) facilities, netball and tennis courts, kayak facilities and mountain bike trails.

Many of our team live active lifestyles and bring passion and practical knowledge to help deliver great project outcomes for our clients.

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Bligh Tanner has experience in delivering innovative structural solutions for a range of façade engineering work.

A building’s façade is a considered balance between performance, aesthetics, environmental responsibility, cost, practicality, durability, and end user experience. Bligh Tanner offer services in all aspects of façade engineering, broadly categorised into the following subsets:

Architectural Engineering
Contractor Engineering
Refurbishment, remedial and diagnostics

We are specialists in our field offering expert design knowledge in:

Weatherproofing
Fenestration design (Unitised / Stick curtain wall, window wall, operable facades, punch windows)
Cladding design (Pressure equalised, drain back cavity, rainscreeen, face sealed)
Specialist glass design (glass walls, skylights and balustrade)
Tensile & Fabric Structures
Blast Resistant Façade Designs
Feature artwork
Materials: Aluminium cladding (Solid & Perforated), Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC), stone and masonry, exposed Steel, aluminium and timber Façades.

Façade Services

Architectural Engineering

Our facade team at have a combined experience of well over 100 years of façade engineering within the architectural space ranging from industry standard to bespoke façade systems. We have a strong work portfolio that focuses on projects that involve sensitive architectural planning and a strong collaboration with architects, other engineering disciplines and key project stakeholders.

Our end-to-end façade consultancy services covers all stages within a project:

Scheme & concept designs – material selection / procurement / façade sketchbook
Feasibility studies – complex geometry / façade rectification & reposition
Detailed design – performance based / prescriptive
Tender documentation (specifications, design intent drawings, etc.)
FP1.4 Weatherproofing Assessment – Performance Based Design Brief
Tender reviews
Contractor reviews for calculations and drawings
Site inspections

Contractor Engineering

A number of our Engineers have backgrounds in facade manufacturing and supply, a critical skillset for assisting main contractors and facade sub-contractors with their project specific requirements. We have a unique appreciation for importance of efficient and constructable design. Our services include:

Design and certification (we have both NSW design practitioners and RPEQ Engineers)
Shop drawing review
Calculation packages
Peer reviews
Witness testing
FP1.4 reports
Site inspection and review (Including ITP documentation

Refurbishment, Remedial and Diagnostics

Bligh Tanner’s facade team have specialist training in rope access, confined space, working at heights and EWP certification to allow our Engineers to review first hand existing assets. By removing the middle person (i.e. a third party rope access inspection company), the quality and quantity of information gathered is improved to allow better decision making. Our skillsets cover the follow:

Aluminum Composite Panel (ACP) recladding
Feasibility studies – typically associated with facade replacements or modifications
Risk assessments
Condition assessments
Failure investigations (including intrusive surveys and spray testing AAMA501.1)
Due diligence inspections
Dilapidation surveys
Façade refurbishment and repositioning
Remedial specifications and tenders
Site inspections and quality control

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Setting international benchmarks in environment + water

Protecting public health and our environment is the driving force for our water and environment team. Clean and safe water is a key component of protecting public health; our team has extensive experience with drinking and recycled water stormwater, open space planning and water sensitive urban design and can provide expert advice to our clients and resolve technical challenges from catchment to tap.

We have specialists who critically review management systems and identify practical and measured improvements. Our team has national certification to undertake audits of these systems to measure the level of implementation.

Bligh Tanner regularly advises Councils and government authorities on water management challenges and opportunities.

Our team has experience with:

Policy and guideline development
Integrated water cycle management
Water sensitive urban design that balances development and sustainability issues
Natural channel design, flood, drainage and overland flow assessments
Management plans and systems (drinking water, recycled Water, healthcare facilities, HACCP, Laboratory, ISO 22000)
Technical advice and peer reviews (water quality, contamination events, water treatment plant performance, guideline development, product validation, intelligent water networks)
Auditing (regulatory, non-regulatory)
Roof water and stormwater harvesting
Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
National parks and open space planning
Water efficiency investigations
Facilitation, training and capacity building

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Innovation with technical excellence

Bligh Tanner has built an enviable reputation in structural engineering. Our designs are progressive, robust, efficient and sustainable. We have developed successful, longstanding relationships with leading architects and are considered a vital part of the project team.

Bligh Tanner’s unique skills in building structures at work:

Multi-residential & architectural housing
Industrial & commercial buildings
Heritage, conservation & forensic engineering
Health & education
Institutional & community buildings
Transportation structures & facilities

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Effective, efficient,
safe + economical

Bligh Tanner’s capabilities and attention to detail extends to a wide range of highly specialised and unique applications.

These special structures demonstrate our firm’s technical origins and an ability to work from first principles: to innovate and create customised systems; to test and finesse; and to develop solutions that are effective, efficient, safe and economical.

Our many and varied special structures include:

Pedestrian bridges
Public art & sculptures
Product development and testing
Landscape & community infrastructure
Membrane & cable structures
Timber Structures

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We deliver safe, resilient and reliable solutions for aging assets

Asset Advisory

Improving asset performance, managing the risks to sustain buildings and assets over their lifecycle, and setting benchmark asset performance each form part of the ongoing challenges clients face when balancing optimal business operations and capital expenditure. Bligh Tanner’s approach focuses on innovative and fit-for-purpose methodology to best manage your assets.

Bligh Tanner combines data analytics and digital technologies to minimise capital expenditure, reduce downtime and resource maintenance and optimise buildings and assets. Bligh Tanner focus on the full lifecycle of your assets, employing proven strategies, our vast experience in forensic engineering, diagnostic engineering and innovative digital technologies to extend your assets’ lives.

Our services:

Undertaking site-based condition assessments
Advanced digital structural analysis, performance testing and monitoring; for developing conservation management plans and strategies
Management of assets ‘on demand’ over a period of time, allowing extremely cost effective solutions.

Our expertise includes the provision of assets management of:

Bridges
Culverts
Buildings
Drainage Networks
Floodways
Jetties or Marine Structures
Rail Infrastructure
Mine Assets
Roads
Tunnels
Underpasses
Material Technology

Infrastructure and Land Development

Bligh Tanner’s civil engineering expertise supports major urban infrastructure, essential to the economic development of our communities. This work includes engineering for major road and rail projects, development of port facilities, and building projects for schools, hospitals and commercial developments.

We are committed to sustainable land development, integrating essential engineering infrastructure with the urban and natural environments. Our approach involves working with the landscape, rather than against it. Combining experience in town planning, environmental and civil engineering, we provide a service that balances the myriad urban living, planning and development challenges.

Our skill set covers all aspects of civil engineering, planning and design for community infrastructure covering transport, building construction and land development for public and private clients.

We have extensive experience in:

Development feasibility and approvals
Civil engineering for road, rail and ports
Temporary roadworks design for major projects
Roads, carparks and services
Bulk earthworks
Erosion and sediment control (ESC)
Water sensitive urban design (WSUD)
Flood, drainage and overland flow assessments

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Ipswich Cycle Park

Working closely with Tract Consultants and Ipswich City Council, Bligh Tanner was the civil designer for Ipswich’s newest cycle park. Featuring a cycling community clubhouse, a learn to ride facility and a 1.3km criterium track, this project requested Bligh Tanner to work with innovative technology to develop the best result for both racers and families of the cycling community.

Client	Ipswich City Council
Completed	2018
Project partners	Tract Consultants