Leisure & Tourism
Delivering outstanding experiences
Our experts support the development of state of the art, dynamic leisure and tourism facilities which deliver our client’s visions and provide memorable user experiences.
We are proud to have played a key role in incorporating innovative, sustainable technology and design strategies as part of the continued advancement of the leisure and tourism sector. We provide multidisciplinary engineering, technical and building services designs to help our clients realise their vision for outstanding leisure and tourism facilities.
Our experience
Our team offers a range of expertise and proven design experience in delivering libraries, galleries, museums, auditoriums and public spaces, as well as preserving heritage facilities.
Our portfolio has been built up over 70 years and comprises some of the most iconic buildings in Australia, including New South Wales State Library, Ian Potter Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne’s Federation Square, and Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
Our portfolio has been built up over 70 years and comprises some of the most iconic buildings in Australia, including New South Wales State Library, Ian Potter Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne’s Federation Square, and Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
Our approach
Successful leisure and tourism developments connect with a wide range of visitors and become significant community hubs. As well as being a local stimulus for jobs, transport and infrastructure, they must be designed with integrity for sustainable use and with the flexibility to meet changing future needs.
Our multidiscipline teams take a holistic approach to designing sustainable, low carbon solutions, considering the project’s whole-life carbon cycle, circular economy and operational carbon emissions.
Our people’s strong communication skills and collaborative culture means our teams bring together their ideas and knowledge to provide a tailor-made service for our clients. Clients have easy access to us through our local offices, whilst those offices draw on the strength of our global expertise.
Our teams
Each of our offices has a core group of dedicated engineers. They ensure projects are not only possible, but feasible. They are familiar with planning requirements and laws at local and national levels and are qualified to carry out all relevant assessments to ensure the smooth-running of planned developments, helping customers every step of the way.
Featured Project
New South Wales State Library
In the first major building project at the Mitchell Building in over 50 years, the New South Wales State Library has undergone a $15m redevelopment to deliver a stunning facility befitting its heritage status.
The scheme comprised a series of upgrades to the Mitchell Building, including new exhibition spaces and a learning centre, involving careful planning to ensure the heritage fabric of the building was respected and protected.
The exhibition spaces were designed by HASSELL architects, with BVN Architecture providing the concept design for the learning centre. The vision was to activate heritage spaces while improving access in and around the library’s historic Mitchell Building and adjoining contemporary Macquarie Street building, facilitating greater engagement with the library’s renowned collection.
Due to the age of the two existing buildings, this presented significant challenges since the life safety services were no longer compliant, making a full re-design of the fire engineering strategy a necessity. The new design, incorporating high-end amenities, was also required to accommodate high occupancies for functions, whilst offering tight humidity control and adherence to strict acoustic requirements.
Our team provided engineering designs to upgrade life safety services and create new exhibition and learning areas. We worked alongside HASSELL architects and BVN Architecture through all stages of the project, from master planning of both the Macquarie and Mitchell Building upgrades, through to design and construction.
