John Holland
John Holland features specialist teams and industry-leading practitioners providing in-house road construction capabilities
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Business Overview  

John Holland features dedicated specialist teams of industry-leading practitioners providing in-house road construction capabilities. 

John Holland provides comprehensive identification, selection, tendering, delivery and maintenance of road construction throughout all states and territories of Australia


Capabilities

Our business has built its capabilities on the diversity and depth of 50-year track record of road infrastructure construction of John Holland. The experience of our engineers in road, bridge, bulk earthworks and tunnelling projects is complimented by the broader engineering capacities of John Holland’s specialist businesses in rail, mining, telecommunications, power line transmission, tunnelling, construction, structural mechanical process and water infrastructure.  


Our specific areas of competency are:  

  • Motorways & Freeways Highways & Arterials
  • Local Roads
  • Road Bridges
  • Toll Roads
  • Access/Haul Roads
  • Tunnels
  • Runway Pavements
  • Rail Embankments
  • Dam Embankments
  • Material Extraction      

We are committed to providing clients with end-to-end roads capability, no matter what form the project takes. The capabilities extend from our knowledge of a range of contract delivery methods to our post-delivery community relations management.  

We are an ever evolving group as it is currently establishing ourselves alongside of our regional and specialist businesses across Australia. We have established a large and diverse group of industry specialists in road construction whilst building a large and diverse fleet of plant and equipment capable of delivering all facets of road construction including quarrying, crushing, earthworks, concreting, bridging and pavements.


Geographic spread  

As a national group our teams are located around Australia so that the national standard for excellence in road construction is further developed and strengthened within John Holland. We take a national approach to road projects, ensuring the continuity of both plant and personnel and innovation transfer across all of our projects across the nation.  

Our delivery  

Our experiences encompass extensive metropolitan highways, tollways and arterial roads including some of Australia’s most complex bypasses, interchanges and tunnels. Our competencies range from road/rail separations in high traffic urban areas where time is of the essence, through to remote area regional highways where mobile site facilities and plant are a necessity.  

We consistently deliver projects underpinned by more cost effective designs, safer construction methods, innovations which reduce life cycle costs and the integration of urban design with environmental delivery.

Our capacity  

John Holland's capacity is better identified through the recent success in delivering major projects such as Melbourne’s Eastlink and Middlebrough Road, New South Wales’s Lane Cove Tunnel and Queensland’s Green Bridge in recent years.  

We have the scope, skills and experience to deliver our partners projects ranging from road and rail separations in regional Australia through to significant tollways and bypasses in metropolitan areas.

Our teams  

John Holland has a set of committed and dedicated road construction and delivery specialists from all walks of the road industry with experience in various diversified areas of road construction, environment, and safety, community and client management.  

From estimators to specialist remote area supervisors, through to alliance contracting specialists to roads infrastructure project managers, our business draws on a rich variety of committed road construction personnel.  

John Holland has the ability to increase local production with additional experienced team members, ensuring the delivery of time-critical or groundbreaking projects with minimal disruption to traffic and local communities

Our culture  

John Holland supports and cultivates a proactive management approach to all aspects of road construction with an emphasis of maintaining partner relationships. The main philosophy of our culture is to provide end-to-end service to clients in the road industry.  

We work closely with our clients, both private and government, to deliver the highest quality project, maximising the life of the asset whilst lowering long term maintenance costs.