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Construction Begins National Cricket Campus Wavell Heights

5-1024x562Cricket Australia and Queensland Cricket have announced that construction has commenced on the National Cricket Campus, located at Shaw Road, Wavell Heights.

Napier & Blakeley have been engaged in a full cost planning and cost management role, led by Adam Greene and Toby McDonald. To date we have assisted in reviewing/setting the budgets, liaising with specialist contractors, preparing estimates, value management, cost options, tender schedules, tender reviews and negotiations. Now that construction is commencing, we will be undertaking post contract services including progress claim and variation assessments, seeing the project through to completion.

The National Cricket Campus is split across the Allan Border Field (ABF) precinct in Albion that provides a world-class playing and training venue and the approved Northern Suburbs District Cricket Club (Norths) in Wavell Heights / Kalinga that will provide additional preparation and community cricket hub for elite, youth and club cricketers. Continue reading

Business as New Usual and here to help

logo and 4 iconsThere have been so many emails about the world’s current situation and so we’re not going to tell you anything that you’ve already heard. 

Napier & Blakeley are working remotely in the new usual and a lot of our people have been doing this for a long time because of the nature of our work.

We have known and worked with a lot of you for a long time and we understand that, at the moment, not everyone is able to work, or do deals or just do things normally for a variety of reasons, including running your businesses here from outside Australia.  Continue reading