'Credible, tested numbers, not estimates': Canberra Airport appoints builder for stadium

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The builder will cost a stadium next to Lake Burley Griffin.

Canberra Airport doesn't want to give Prime Minister Anthony Albanese estimates for a lakeside stadium, it wants to provide "credible, tested" costs.

It's why it's appointed builder BESIX Watpac to work alongside architect Populous to determine how "Canberra City All Event Stadium" could be built and what it will cost.

In some ways it's a case of getting the band back together, with the pair working together on the Christchurch stadium - which is being used as inspiration for a venue on the archbishop's former residence.

But Canberra Airport chief executive Stephen Byron said this stadium will be designed specifically for the capital's weather and needs, and the Regatta Place site.

BESIX Watpac has been engaged as an early contractor and will help test designs for "constructability, sequencing and cost".

The plan is to have initial designs and costings completed for federal government consideration by Christmas.

"We said from day one that this proposal would be evidence-led and tested rigorously," Byron said.

"That means putting it in front of the people who actually build the best stadiums in the world.

"BESIX Watpac built the stadium in Christchurch that has shaped our thinking from the start.

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