Working from the site, RCP was close to the work as it progressed and gave Woolworths an independent view of how construction was tracking against each separable portion.
Woolworths Brisbane Regional Distribution Centre
Client
Woolworths Ltd
The Woolworths Regional Distribution Centre at Larapinta is a major logistics facility supporting stores across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Located beside the Logan Motorway, the approximately 70,000 sqm facility includes a semi-automated high-bay warehouse with 67 loading docks and a 25,000 sqm refrigerated store with a further 30 docks. Fruit-ripening rooms, multi-level picking areas, offices, staff facilities and a dedicated truck maintenance building are supported by approximately 170,000 sqm of roads, parking and landscaping.
Coordinating construction and operational readiness.
The scale and complexity of the facility required ambient and refrigerated warehousing, automated storage systems and supporting infrastructure to be delivered across three separable portions, each with demanding completion dates.
RCP provided on-site project management and specialist programming services, giving Woolworths an independent view of programme performance throughout construction. RCP monitored each separable portion, coordinated programme interfaces and tracked construction alongside the installation of specialist systems and Woolworths’ operational-readiness requirements.
With the ambient and refrigerated facilities progressing concurrently, detailed programming was critical to keeping the different workstreams aligned and preparing the centre for operation.
The project was completed six months ahead of schedule, allowing Woolworths to bring this major piece of supply-chain infrastructure into service earlier than planned.
