The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) were held in the City of the Gold Coast in Australia in April with more than 4,400 athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations. The largest sporting event to be staged in Australia this decade, GC2018 featured the largest integrated sports program in Commonwealth Games history, comprising 18 sports and seven para-sports.
The Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre (GCCEC) was at the center of the action, as it hosted the competitions for netball and basketball and housed the Main Media Centre, including the Main Press Centre and the International Broadcast Centre. The GCCEC is the city’s premier convention and exhibition venue and the largest regional convention center in Australia.
The venue comprises a 5,000-seat arena and 6,000 m2 of exhibition space and provides a full in-house technical production service, all under the one roof. The Centre has invested significantly in its technology team to create a seamless event experience for its clients and their guests.
Audio Visual Production Manager Chris Davey was tasked, among other things, to design a rigging system and make sure the over 800 meters of trussing and 113 chain hoists could be rigged safely and accurately. As soon as Braceworks was released last year, the team at GCCEC immediately saw how incredibly useful it would be. The GCCEC is the first venue in Australia to embrace Braceworks and among the first users globally to implement it across a large-scale sporting event.
“The timing couldn’t have been better with such a large amount of trussing going in, and in the end Braceworks undoubtedly saved us many hours of painstaking work,” said Davey.
