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Q: Why is precinct planning so important for the Brisbane 2032 Games?
Precinct planning is about more than just building venues or public spaces. For Aurecon, it means taking a precinct’s vision and producing an integrated, coordinated plan that delivers tangible outcomes for communities, governments, and businesses. This involves balancing engineering, technical, economic, social, and environmental considerations.
When done well, precinct planning can increase land value for landowners by enhancing an area’s appeal, drive capital investment for local businesses, and reduce long-term management costs for local government. Most importantly, it’s about creating places that enhance Brisbane’s active, outdoor lifestyle. That’s the real legacy opportunity for the 2032 Games: delivering infrastructure that supports vibrant, connected communities for decades to come.
Q: What are some of the biggest challenges in delivering precincts for Brisbane 2032?
One of the key challenges is maintaining community trust, or social licence, throughout the development process. Recent changes to the legislative framework have streamlined the approvals process for development and infrastructure, but it’s still crucial to keep the community at the centre of decision-making.
This means being proactive in community engagement, ensuring residents understand not just the costs but the long-term benefits of new infrastructure. It also requires a strong commercial lens to balance cost and return, and robust technical assessments that are transparent and defensible. When the community is aligned with the vision, it builds trust and helps ensure that projects move forward smoothly.
Q: What is the legacy opportunity of Brisbane 2032 for precinct development?
The Brisbane 2032 Games represent a once-in-a-generation catalyst for long-term investment in infrastructure. If precinct planning is done well, through the right social and economic lens, it will result in transformational assets that endure well beyond the event itself.
The Games provide a platform to create new places that support Brisbane’s active lifestyle, strengthen social cohesion, and stimulate lasting economic growth. It’s about designing infrastructure that will continue to serve communities and businesses in Brisbane and South East Queensland for decades to come.
Q: What types of precincts does Aurecon typically work on, and how does that experience apply to the 2032 Games?
Aurecon has extensive experience working across a wide range of precincts, both in Queensland and New South Wales. For example, we’ve been heavily involved in the Special Activation Precincts Program in New South Wales, which focuses on government-led infrastructure to unlock investment and economic opportunities in regional communities.
We’ve also worked on airport precinct planning, which involves aligning infrastructure investment with passenger growth forecasts, and on local planning in Brisbane and South East Queensland through placemaking and development assessments. By recognising the common threads of placemaking, asset integration, and the delivery of long-term social and economic benefits, Aurecon is well-positioned to help optimise opportunities for Brisbane 2032 and beyond.
Q: How can Aurecon’s multidisciplinary team contribute to Brisbane 2032 precinct planning?
Precinct planning for an event like Brisbane 2032 requires collaboration across multiple disciplines. Aurecon brings together a team of engineers, planners, environmental scientists, and economists to ensure precincts are designed with both immediate needs and long-term benefits in mind.
By integrating technical expertise with a deep understanding of social and economic outcomes, Aurecon helps ensure that the investments made for the Games create legacy infrastructure that will serve Brisbane and South East Queensland communities for decades.
Aurecon is not a sponsor of the Australian Olympic Committee Incorporated, the International Olympic Committee, any Summer or Winter Olympic Games, the organising committee for any Summer or Winter Olympic Games, an Australian Olympic team, a section of an Australian Olympic team, or an individual member of an Australian Olympic team. This material is not intended to suggest that Aurecon has any formal association with, or has provided any sponsorship or sponsorship-like support for, any of these parties.
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