Driven steel piles for the UTAS Stadium redevelopment

BridgePro has completed the driven steel pile foundations for the UTAS Stadium redevelopment in Launceston, working for Fairbrother.

Working with the head contractor and the client’s designers, BridgePro optimised the reference pile design to resist high lateral earthquake loads. Driven steel CHS piles were chosen for speed of delivery and to avoid the need for a full piling pad. The reference design called for 314 piles, each 14 to 24 m long and spliced on site to the required length.

Crane-suspended hammers on our 75 t and 100 t telecrawler cranes drove the piles in the open areas. Beneath the existing grandstand roof, where cranes could not reach, the team switched to a side-grip vibrator and impact hammer mounted on excavators. Every pile has a set record in the QA package.

The works ran from October 2025 to July 2026. Read the project page.