Named ‘Best Convention Centre in the World’ by AIPC, 2016-2018, the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC) has been a key feature of the Brisbane, and broader Australian and APAC, events landscape for over 30 years.

ASM Global has been an integral part of that story from the very beginning; ASM Global was invited to provide expert operator input during the earliest development discussions.

ASM Global recognised the potential of South-East Queensland and Brisbane, Australia’s third largest and fastest growing major city, to become a future key APAC business and events destination.

Leveraging this knowledge, the team delivered an exceptionally innovative complex that has stood the test of time and is extremely well positioned as a key venue for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Para-Olympic Games.

ASM Global’s initial consultancy uncovered multiple business, tourism and cultural opportunities, recommending key design features and operational elements that successfully positioned BCEC as a leading, world-class, MICE venue.

Our inputs included enhanced FF&E, ICT, AV, functional design and operational efficiency recommendations to deliver an operationally, functionally, reputationally and commercially successful complex.

Significantly, when expansion plans were mooted in 2007, ASM Global was again approached to provide expert operator input throughout the D&C period, while also continuing to deliver year-on-year profitability via our management services contract.

As the premium major event venue in the region, the BCEC offers multiple events spaces across 171,650sqm of floor space, over eight levels. Using innovative operable wall solutions that allow for flexible configurable spaces for between 40 and 4,000, BCEC has the capability to concurrently deliver multiple events to over 20,000 guests.

The Convention Centre

• More than 40 meetings, events and gallery spaces across eight levels
• 12 signature function spaces including three stand-alone tiered auditoria able to accommodate from 400 to 4000 guests
• Able to successfully support five concurrent conventions for up to 8,000 guests across all 44 meeting rooms, multiple plenary spaces and Great Hall
• Three ballrooms and two main banqueting spaces with river and city views
• Multiple concourses, foyers, terraces and galleries, an atrium flooded with natural light or innovatively lit spaces for corporate and private events.

The Exhibition Halls

• 20,000sqm dedicated exhibition space across four fully flexible main (5,000sqm) or eight smaller (2,500sqm) Exhibition Halls
• All facilities under one roof, offering a wide range of in-house services, award-winning catering and AV Production Services.

The Great Hall

• Tiered, quality, arena-style seating for 4,000
• Fully raisable seating platforms, designed to provide a flat floor area of over 4,000sqm for major corporate banquets & seated events.
• Smart design solutions allowing a maximum capacity of 8,000 when configured to include GA and adjoining Exhibition Hall space, creating over 24,000sqm of combined Exhibition, Convention or Performance Space.

• ASM Global appointed as Consultant during Concept Development stage, 1992, delivering a successful Pre-Opening and Launch, 1995.
• Successful completion & opening of Grey Street Extension, 2011
• Successful host of the ‘best ever’ G20 Leaders Summit, 2014
• Ranked World’s Best Convention Centre by the Association Internationale des Palais de Congres (AIPC), 2016-2018
• The five-star green-rated complex has received multiple EarthCheck Accreditations, achieving the highest-level Platinum Accreditation in 2021
• BCEC is voted runner-up in world rankings in the latest AIPC survey 2020 -2022

The BCEC was developed as a key anchor venue for a new riverside, CBD facing, cultural, business, arts, entertainment and education precinct. Today, the BCEC is located at the center of Brisbane’s Knowledge Corridor, surrounded by universities, world-leading research institutes and key hospitals.

BCEC also sits at the heart of Brisbane’s bustling South Bank cultural and entertainment precinct, home to art galleries, world-class performing arts, and superb riverside dining. Other precinct venues include:

• Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery
• Queensland State Library
• Queensland Museum and Queensland Maritime Museum
• Queensland Performing Arts Centre
• Griffith University & Conservatorium
• South Bank Parklands – over 17 hectares of public parkland, concourses and performance spaces
• 90+ Restaurants, Bars & Cafes located across Grey Street, Melbourne Street Merivale Street and Fish Lane
• Cinemas
• Queensland Childrens’, Mater Private, Mater Public and Mater Mothers’ Hospitals

The Centre is also well positioned with a wide range of accommodation options nearby - four major hotels within walking distance of BCEC and a further 50 hotels within two kilometres.