From athletes village

Adding a new dimension to precinct

aged-care facilities at $952 million, and health with $737 million,” she said.

According to the report, the sector with the greatest spend was transportation, with $4.3 billion of works planned over 52 projects.

Seventy-eight projects are in the pipeline in the service sector, which includes childcare, car parks, hotels, energy facilities and services stations, followed by transportation (52) and education (42).

More than 55 per cent of ARTIFICIAL bones are to be the skeleton of new life for part of the Athletes Village once the Commonwealth Games show rolls out of town.

The village will soon become home to an $80 million bone manufacturing plant that will promise a better life for patients.

Griffith University has invested in a large 3D printer capable of designing and print- the projects are in the planning stage; 19 per cent have been completed in the past year; and 26 per cent are under construction, based on their total value.

Ray White Surfers Paradise chief executive Andrew Bell said many of the developments would not have been approved or even proposed if the city had not won and hosted the Commonwealth Games.

“The staging of the Games heralds the beginning of the next chapter of the Gold ing out replica bones to be used as human replacements in surgery.

The state-of-the-art technology could custom-design bones and create prototypes at a much faster pace than what is ow available.

The 3D printing technology could also be used for other areas such as aerospace, defence or dentistry. Coast’s evolution from tourist town into a vibrant city with an expanding multi-dimensional economy,” Mr Bell said.

“There’s extremely high demand for housing on the Gold Coast thanks to strong population growth and the shortfall in new homes and apartments coming to the market over the past decade.

“As a result of the hiatus in development, we’ve had rental vacancy rate sitting at around one per cent for some time as well as significant

Senior deputy vicechancellor Ned Pankhurst said the university already had a 3D printer on the campus, but a larger machine would be housed in a dedicated 9000sq/ m area near the front of the athletes village.

“There are all sorts of industries (that would use it because they have problems) they can’t solve with commercial manufacturing,”

pent-up demand for residential land in many areas.

“In many ways we are playing catch-up to areas like Sydney and Melbourne which have experienced enormous price growth and development whereas on the Gold Coast the growth has only been measured.

“That’s great news as there is tremendous opportunity for capital growth and we are seeing money coming to the Gold Coast for that reason – there is great value here and diversity.” Professor Pankhurst said. “We already have aerospace interest.”

For smaller pieces, it would just take a matter of hours to print out a prototype.

Prof Pankhurst said the hitech printer would be best suited to creating items that could not be easily replicated.

Potential surgery patients could be scanned and a model