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Project highlights in Australia
Services
A consortium including John Holland was contracted
to operate and maintain the city of Melbourne’s railway
network for a period of eight years. The contract is
worth around EUR 95 million per annum and also includes
the option to extend it for a further seven years.
In neighboring New Zealand, Leighton Contractors
subsidiary Visionstream is maintaining and upgrading a
section of the national telecommunications network.
Work under the EUR 461 million contract will last for a
period of ten years.
Infrastructure
A consortium including Thiess is to design, finance and
build Australia’s most advanced seawater desalination
plant, one of the world’s largest PPP projects. The contract
awarded by the Australian state of Victoria is worth
approximately EUR 2.1 billion and is expected to be
completed in 2012. The PPP project includes the construction
and operation of the 86-kilometer transfer pipeline
connecting the desalination plant to Melbourne’s
water network. The consortium is also responsible for
supplying the energy, which will come entirely from
sustainable sources, such as a separate wind farm that
is to be constructed for the plant.
As a member of a consortium, John Holland is extend-
ing the water supply network for the Australian city of
Melbourne. Worth around EUR 207 million, the contract
includes the modernization of a pumping station
and water storage facility. The construction work is
scheduled to take six years.
Thiess Services was awarded a sewerage contract.
During the course of the South East Water Capital
Works program in Victoria, the water supply and sewerage
networks will be upgraded and a pumping station
constructed. The contract is worth a total of EUR
224 million, of which approximately EUR 189 million will
go to Thiess Services.
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Thiess is also involved in the construction of an 8.4-kilometer
section of the M80 Ring Road in Melbourne. The
project is worth almost EUR 300 million in total. Leighton
Contractors, too, has chalked up further successes in
the road construction segment and will participate in
the extension of the Eastern Busway in Brisbane. Among
other work, the project includes the construction of
tunnels, bridges and bus stops. The contract is worth
EUR 148 million to Leighton.
In a consortium, John Holland is adding a third track to
the rail link between the towns of Maitland and Whittingham.
For this, a new stretch totaling 43 kilometers
in length will be installed and various bridge and road
works completed by March 2012. Worth EUR 142 million
in total, the project is part of the Australian authorities’
central infrastructure program.
Together with partners, Leighton Contractors secured
another large project in 2009: the contract to upgrade
and renew the electricity network for the Sydney,
Hunter Valley and Central Coast regions. Work on the
EUR 132 million contract is scheduled to take until
2014.
Contract mining
Leighton subsidiary HWE Mining has extended its contract
to operate the Orebody 23 mine in Western Australia
for a further five years. The company has been
responsible for ore mining there since 1998. Under the
new contract worth roughly EUR 201 million, HWE Mining
will continue to provide mining, transport and technical
maintenance services.
Leighton Contractors’ mining business also continued
to impress: The contract to mine coal at the Duralie
mine in New South Wales was extended by a further
seven years, translating into roughly EUR 251 million of
work. Leighton mines around 1.8 million metric tons
per annum of the commodity at the Duralie site.
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