Kennards Hire supports Vivid Sydney, Australia’s largest festival for the sixth consecutive year

Following a two-week ‘bump-in’ period for festival setup, Kennards Hire helped Vivid Sydney dazzle and delight audiences for 23 days and nights, through a celebration of creativity, innovation, and technology.

As part of the agreement, the Kennards Major Projects (KMP) team delivered end-to-end specialist support including equipment supply and servicing, traffic solutions for road closures, and crowd control barriers to help keep the public safe during the magic of Vivid Sydney.

Creating an easy-to-access compound to house equipment whilst not in use, such as vehicles, trailers, fork-lifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts, the KMP team built and serviced eight site compounds throughout the festival.

Kennards Hire supplied more than 2,500 hours of labour, over 30 labourers for hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM), an onsite pop-up store and infrastructure equipment such as sheds, access gear, barriers, VMS boards and fencing.

Simon Tipping at Kennards Hire said: “We’re helping make one of the world’s most visited light festivals as safe and as seamless as possible. In less than three months, we deliver the same amount of work that we’d typically do in a year-long project of a similar scale.”

“As a partner, we want to make putting together the magic of Vivid as easy as possible. We aim to help some of Australia’s most innovative and creative artists bring their visions to life in the safest and easiest way possible, so that they can spend more time creating a beautiful moment for Vivid spectators, and less time worrying about the tools and equipment they need to make it happen.”

Vivid Sydney Festival Director Gill Minervini said: “Vivid Sydney energise Sydney’s CBD. The festival has long had a successful partnership with Kennards, who offer a wide-ranging set of vital services.”

Vivid Sydney is Australia’s largest festival, attracting a record 2.58 million people to the festival in 2022.

For more information about Kennards Major Projects, visit kennards.com.au.

For more information about Vivid Sydney, visit vividsydney.com