Greater Holtze Development

Greater Holtze Development



Project Client

Department of Lands, Planning and Environment

Status

Ongoing

Scope of work:

Greater Holtze has been identified as the future growth area for Greater Darwin. The Greater Holtze area comprises approximately 3,300 hectares spanning Holtze, Kowandi, Holtze North and Howard Springs North. It will support a strategy of maintaining a supply of serviced land for development and identifying areas of environmental and/or social benefit while creating a liveable, affordable and sustainable community for everyone.

Our Role:

Byrne Consultants were engaged by the Department of Lands Planning and Environment (DLPE) to support the long-term development of Greater Holtze through the following activities:

Project Management:

Byrne Consultants is engaged to provide Project Management services which requires on-going management of over 20 separate work elements and 15 sub-consultancies across multiple disciplines. Byrne Consultants provided Risk Management, Scheduling, Project Management, Gaps Analysis, Financial Management, Scheduling and Reporting services across the entire program of works to facilitate development of Greater Holtze in a planned way. Project Management services include extensive authority liaison to ensure relevant stakeholder inputs to various aspects of the project including concept design for infrastructure, infrastructure master planning and detailed design co-ordination.

Infrastructure Masterplanning:
Byrne Consultants prepared infrastructure master plans for the Greater Holtze area, including:

  • Road networks.
  • Stormwater drainage.
  • Water network.
  • Sewer network.
  • Power network.
  • Communications.
  • Health Precinct Plan.
  • Development Sequencing Plan.
  • Green corridor as a central drainage corridor.
  • Wildlife corridor to support on-going viability of threatened species populations.

Works Plan Development:
Byrne Consultants were responsible for preparing the Works Plan for the Holtze Land Release developer which provided an overview of the enabling infrastructure headworks to be delivered by the Territory, the context and technical objectives for the interface between the Land Release and Territory owned infrastructure and the specific requirements of the Territory associated with the Development. The Works Plan articulated all infrastructure connections between the Land Release Parcel and enabling infrastructure including roads, power, water and sewer.

Concept Design and Detailed Design:
Byrne Consultants role during the concept and detailed design stage has included (this work is on-going):

  • Development of concept design for enabling infrastructure for consideration and endorsement by stakeholders to define preferred infrastructure development corridors for:
    • Roads and drainage.
    • Water and sewer.
    • Electrical and communications.
  • Development of staging options for infrastructure development to suit development timing requirements.
  • Our role in the detailed design stages includes:
    • Roads and drainage.
    • Water headworks.
    • Sewer headworks.
    • Streetlighting.
    • Electrical headworks.
    • LV networks.
    • Landscaping.
    • Telecommunications.
    • Infrastructure staging.
    • Traffic Management Planning to minimise impact on the Palmerston Regional Hospital.
    • Service Authority Liaison and approval.
    • Erosion and Sediment Control Plans.
    • Stormwater Management Plan.

Geographical Information Systems:
Byrne Consultants have been engaged to establish a standalone GIS Portal for the Greater Holtze Project which provides the following:

  • Establishment of a geodatabase containing project data using ArcGIS Pro to assist with infrastructure planning. The project data includes:
    • Infrastructure master plans for roads, power, stormwater, water, sewer and communications.
    • Environmental data such as flora and fauna surveys, including Typhonium mapping, fire data and land clearing.
    • Tenure information.
    • Stormwater catchments.
    • AAPA areas.
  • Development of an accompanying StoryMap which provides an easily understood tool for stakeholder presentations on various aspects of the project.

Project Outcomes:

Byrne Consultants and the sub-consultant team has developed:

  • Overall master plan for roads, water, sewer, electrical and green corridor, including a wildlife corridor to protect threatened species.
  • Concept and detail design of Stage 1 enabling infrastructure.
  • Concept and detail design of Stage 2 enabling infrastructure.
  • Concept planning for the Palmerston Health Precinct Plan.
  • Development Staging Plan for Greater Holtze
  • GIS decision support tool.

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