Wiley wins for Primo facility

Wiley has won the AIB (Australian Institute of Building) Queensland Chapter’s Professional Excellence in Building State Award for Research, Development and Technology for its work on the Primo Smallgoods facility in Brisbane.

Wiley, specialist engineers for food industry integrated facilities, received the award for the innovative design and engineering delivered during the construction of the $136 million Primo facility in Wacol, Brisbane.

The project was broken into two stages over two years. Stage one included the cold storage and distribution facilities; Stage two covered the production and administration buildings.

“One of the biggest challenges was communicating the complexity of this kind of project’s unique food processing and manufacturing hygiene standards across a complex network of design, engineering and construction teams,” said Project Director Graham Harvey.

“Additionally, all project members were fixed on an immovable project end date which would enable Primo to meet its immediate Christmas demand.

“We achieved this by employing in-house Building Information Modelling (BIM)/3D modelling to effectively communicate key design elements across all project and client teams.”

The company is now in the running for the national award. The winners for the AIB Professional Excellence in Building Awards will be announced in Melbourne in September.