State
New South Wales
Market
Data Centre
Scope
Bar, mesh, prefabricated cages
Duration
26 months, four halls
A hyperscale programme that could not wait on steel.
Four data halls delivered in sequence on a single Western Sydney
campus, each with its own slab cycle, plant deck and structural
programme running in parallel. Reinforcement had to arrive
processed, tagged and in placement order, into a site with no
laydown to spare.
The challenge
The builder was coordinating three reinforcing suppliers across the first hall, and every variation meant a new schedule, a new delivery slot and a new conversation.
Three reinforcing suppliers across one hall, each with a separate schedule
Slab cycles running in parallel with no float between pours
No laydown area — material had to land in placement sequence
Compliance documentation required per delivery for the client’s reporting
Our approach
IBR took the full reinforcing package from hall two onward —
detailing, manufacture, processing, prefabrication and delivery under one programme and one project manager.
01
Early engagement with the design team
IBR detailers worked from the structural model before hall two was let, resolving congestion and lap detailing ahead of fabrication.
02
One schedule across the whole package
Bar, mesh and cages scheduled together and released against the site programme rather than against three separate supplier lead times.
03
Prefabrication off site
Pile caps and column cages assembled at the IBR facility and craned straight into position, cutting tying labour in a congested slab.
04
Delivery windows to the pour plan
Tagged, bundled and sequenced deliveries into nominated windows, with a named project manager holding the plan.
“By hall three we stopped managing reinforcement as a risk. One schedule, one delivery plan, one person to call.”
Construction Manager · Principal contractor
What we supplied
Product, processing and prefabrication from the one supply chain.
Reinforcing Bar
Mesh
Prefabricated Cages
Logistics Management
The outcome
Three halls delivered without a reinforcement-driven delay, and a
fourth brought forward on the back of it.
9,400t
Reinforcement supplied across four data halls
0
Programme days lost to reinforcement supply
38%
Reduction in on-site tying hours through prefabrication
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