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MDE Projects are your dedicated team that takes pride in understanding our client’s needs and can work towards various configurations of floating platforms, both nationally and internationally.

Nine years running the same show. That's not luck, that's the relationship.The Sydney International Boat Show has used M...
26/10/2026

Nine years running the same show. That's not luck, that's the relationship.

The Sydney International Boat Show has used MDE Projects for its floating marina for more than nine years straight, the kind of repeat relationship that only happens when a supplier gets the timeline and the on-water safety right, every single time, without the client having to check. This is the track record itself, not a rebuild of a project already covered, it's the business case for why MDE keeps getting rebooked.

Walkway. Stage. Work platform. Same modular aluminium system, three different jobs.This is what MDE Projects pontoon hir...
19/10/2026

Walkway. Stage. Work platform. Same modular aluminium system, three different jobs.

This is what MDE Projects pontoon hire looks like under real load, a floating walkway carrying a full crowd across Sydney Harbour to a public installation, engineered the same way whether it's a footpath, a stage or a work platform on the day. If an event, activation or exhibition needs to happen on or near water, this is the starting conversation.

Get a quote for your next water based event.

The bridge had floated away in the 2022 floods. The festival still needed one.When Orange FOOD Week's Forage event neede...
12/10/2026

The bridge had floated away in the 2022 floods. The festival still needed one.

When Orange FOOD Week's Forage event needed to connect two properties across a private waterway, the original bridge wasn't there. MDE Projects supplied a temporary floating bridge to reconnect the two properties, a 13-metre modular walkway. Built to solve the actual site problem, not the one in the original brief.

Got a site problem water's causing, not solving? Talk to us.

Darling Harbour, golden hour. Some of the best water in the country to work on.MDE Projects has spent years putting floa...
05/10/2026

Darling Harbour, golden hour. Some of the best water in the country to work on.

MDE Projects has spent years putting floating infrastructure into harbours like this one, the kind of work that's only visible when you know to look for it, beside the boats and the bridges everyone's actually looking at.

One aluminium float unit doesn't do much. Connected, it's a walkway, a stage, a work platform.MDE Projects builds its fl...
29/09/2026

One aluminium float unit doesn't do much. Connected, it's a walkway, a stage, a work platform.

MDE Projects builds its floating infrastructure from modular aluminium float units, individual sections that interlock into whatever shape a project needs, from a small access platform to a full-scale event structure. Each unit is rated and designed to lock into its neighbours without site-specific engineering for every configuration, which is why the same system can become a walkway one month and a stage the next. It's not a shortcut, it's the reason MDE can turn a concept into a floating structure on an event's timeline, not a construction one.

Ask us what a modular aluminium floatation system could do for your project.

150 metres of floating walkway. 3.28 million people at the festival it served. ✨MDE Projects built and installed a 150-m...
24/09/2026

150 metres of floating walkway. 3.28 million people at the festival it served. ✨

MDE Projects built and installed a 150-metre floating walkway across Darling Harbour for Vivid Sydney, connecting Harbourside to Cockle Bay so festival goers could cross the water instead of walking around it. Across 23 nights, an estimated 3.28 million people came through Vivid, and every one of those nights, this walkway had to hold its share of the crowd safely, in a harbour that doesn't stop moving.

That's the brief for every MDE installation: get people onto the water without anyone noticing the engineering underneath.

A crowd moves differently on water than it does on land.Loading shifts as people gather and move, and a floating venue h...
15/09/2026

A crowd moves differently on water than it does on land.

Loading shifts as people gather and move, and a floating venue has to stay stable through all of it. That's managed with engineering, distribution, capacity planning and systems built for the way crowds actually behave, not the way a plan assumes they will.

Stability under a moving crowd is designed long before anyone steps on board.

🚶 Safe entry, exit and movement is the difference between a smooth event and a serious risk.Gangways, flow and accessibi...
08/09/2026

🚶 Safe entry, exit and movement is the difference between a smooth event and a serious risk.

Gangways, flow and accessibility aren't an afterthought on a floating build, they're designed in from the start, and they're often what compliance hinges on. Get access right and the rest of the event runs the way it should.

It's the part organisers underestimate most, and the part we never do.

🛶 If you could build anything on the water, what would it be?A floating stage? A pool? A restaurant off the harbour? The...
01/09/2026

🛶 If you could build anything on the water, what would it be?

A floating stage? A pool? A restaurant off the harbour? There are fewer limits than most people assume.

Tell us in the comments, the wilder the better. We'll tell you which ones we could actually pull off. 💬

Floating venues are no longer a novelty. They're a category.Festivals, weddings, corporate events organisers are moving ...
25/08/2026

Floating venues are no longer a novelty. They're a category.

Festivals, weddings, corporate events organisers are moving onto the water because it offers something a marquee in a field can't. As demand grows, the brands that can actually deliver on the water will be the ones organisers come back to.

That's the space MDE has worked in for 25 years.

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