00:00Constructing a crack team of specialists, Cox Architects are responsible for Perth Stadium and the Adelaide Oval Rebuild.
00:10Now they've been recruited to deliver a stadium at Macquarie Point in Hobart.
00:15We of course are all wary of the renders that were done last year by others, the artistic renders,
00:21and they give some clues of what we don't want to do, I think is probably correct to say.
00:26The Cox-led consortium has a $38 million five-year contract and they're not at all daunted by the challenge.
00:34The aim is that the building will not be a solid mass, that it will have a great deal of transparency around it
00:39and therefore respectful towards the Cenotaph.
00:41We're also looking very carefully about the height issue around and how it impacts on the Cenotaph
00:45and how the building can come down at a lower scale.
00:48The Mac Point Development Corporation is on a myth-busting mission regarding the suitability of the site.
00:55A reclaimed site is not a constraint, it's just a consideration in the design.
00:59We have done so much testing of this site, we have a very clear profile of the soil and geotech of this site.
01:05If you look at a map of where we've done all the sampling, it looks like a pin cushion.
01:09While 23,000 seats and a roof will be on time and on budget, according to the architects.
01:16We are confident that a $750 million budget is perfectly appropriate for the project,
01:21so the aim will be that we'll be within that budget.
01:23The relocation of the nearby waste water treatment plant to Selfs Point will be no impediment on stadium construction.
01:31If you're going to undertake urban renewal of a waterfront precinct, you don't want a sewage treatment plant there.
01:37But the cost of the move has more than doubled since it was first flagged in 2016, from $140 to $320 million.
01:46It's been known for some time that this project has to go ahead no matter what happens on this site.
01:52It's been nearly a decade of inaction and incompetence.
01:55And despite pledging support for a stadium, Labor remains dubious the government can deliver the project.
02:01I think there are still real question marks around the cost and still real question marks around the timeline.
02:09Concept designs are expected next month, with stadium proponents to lodge their submission to the Tasmanian Planning Commission soon after.
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