{"id":123959,"date":"2025-11-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=123959"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:56:07","slug":"local-businesses-showcased-in-nyaal-banyuls-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/local-businesses-showcased-in-nyaal-banyuls-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Local businesses showcased in Nyaal Banyul&#8217;s construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL businesses are leaving their mark on all parts of the coming Nyaal Banyul Geelong Convention and Events Centre, including the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The $449 million development on the Geelong waterfront will feature more than 5,000sqm of Godfrey Hirst&#8217;s locally designed and manufactured carpet.<\/p>\n<p>For Godfrey Hirst, the project has supported commercialisation of an innovative flooring technology. The Geelong-based company&#8217;s new Enviro Grip technology makes the venue&#8217;s 1,000 seat Wala Mirr Theatre carpet removable without the use of adhesives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/11\/IMG_8417_82797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1,000 seat Wala Mirr Theatre is the largest space in Nyaal Banyul and features many elements constructed by Geelong and regional Victorian businesses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Enviro Grip carpet was co-designed with the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, and is just one of the features at Nyaal Banyul that celebrate Wadawurrung Culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a large producer [of carpet], actually in Geelong we produce probably 15km to 20km of carpet a day,&#8221; Godfrey Hirst national sales manager Joel Williamson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So [the carpet for this building] is not a huge part of what we do, but it&#8217;s a very important part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And projects like this are just amazing for the local community &#8211; we basically employ hundreds of people here in Geelong, so they love when they can come and use facilities and see the carpet on the floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other locally produced elements in Wala Mirr Theatre include concrete batched at Moolap by Barro Group, steel in the roof structure fabricated at Hanlon Industry&#8217;s Corio plant, as well as flashings from Rodgers Sheetmetal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/11\/IMG_8427_41256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Godfrey Hirst national sales manager Joel Williamson, and Geelong MP Christine Couzens hold a square of the Enviro Grip carpet. 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