The Commonwealth Games Athletes Village, now known as Smith Collective, is listed in Nathan Burden’s broader project experience. ADG Engineers describes the project as one of Queensland’s significant urban renewal projects, delivered as part of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

The project provided accommodation for more than 6,600 athletes and officials before transitioning into a permanent 7.1-hectare residential precinct with 1,252 dwellings. That kind of project required a different delivery mindset to a standard building, with fixed deadlines, major stakeholder coordination, staged handover, public visibility, infrastructure planning, residential conversion and long-term legacy outcomes all part of the construction environment.

Nathan’s connection to the Commonwealth Games Athletes Village forms part of his experience across large-scale precinct delivery and programme-critical construction environments. Projects of this nature require disciplined reporting, clear accountability and close coordination between project teams, consultants, authorities, contractors and stakeholders.

The Commonwealth Games Athletes Village sits within Nathan’s broader project background across major residential, mixed-use and urban renewal delivery. It involved a construction environment where delivery had to align with public outcomes, hard deadlines and long-term community use.