John Holland Annual Review, 2011 - Leighton Holdings

The $200-million Devil Creek Development Project near Karratha in Western Australia, where John Holland is delivering an onshore
plant and pipeline
The formation of the Energy & Resources
business stream in 2011 illustrates John
Holland’s increasing focus on this fast
growing and exciting market sector. In 2011,
the business stream contributed a growing
portion of John Holland’s revenue, with the
four businesses together securing work in
hand of $1.6 billion—an outstanding 102%
improvement over the previous year.
Each one of the businesses—Water & Enviro, Energy, Mining
and Minerals & Industrial—has achieved a number of impressive
project delivery goals during the year.
Our Water & Enviro business maintains its leadership position
in the public sector water market in Australia. During the year,
the business also pursued a geographic diversification strategy,
continuing its pursuit of international projects. This strategy was
successful in winning a key waste treatment facility in Hong Kong.
The business aggressively pursued new opportunities for providing
water treatment and distribution solutions to the expanding mining
and oil and gas sectors.
Water & Enviro also focused its efforts particularly in the
environment sector, by building new business opportunities,
services offerings and technology solutions. These efforts were
rewarded with the award of our first work extending our water
process capability into the renewable technologies sector
for Aurora Algae. John Holland, in partnership with MWH,
is working towards finalising the design and construction
of the largest commercial-scale photosynthetic algae facility
in the world in Western Australia.
From a performance perspective, Water & Enviro achieved a
number of project milestones throughout the year. Significant
progress has been made in the Priority Sewerage Program with
the completion of schemes servicing seven towns at the base
of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Elsewhere, Water &
Enviro successfully completed the Murrumba Downs Wastewater
Treatment Plant upgrade in Queensland and construction works
on the Mardi to Mangrove pipeline in New South Wales.
Major highlights for the Water & Enviro business in 2011 include
the award of several new contracts. In Hong Kong, the business
won the $660-million contract to design and construct a new
waste treatment facility, in joint venture with Leighton Asia and
Veolia Water. In New South Wales, John Holland was appointed
to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Program Alliance and was awarded
the contract to construct new infrastructure for Sydney Water at
Hoxton Park and Warriewood.
The Energy business continues to build on our oil and gas
capability. The business has focused its activities on further
positioning John Holland in the growing domestic gas, export
LNG and petrochemical sectors. Since embarking on its
diversification strategy, John Holland has been successful in
securing significant oil and gas contracts and is well placed to
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