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🎨 How many paint buckets does it take to build a better future? 🌏

At John Holland, we believe that sustainability is a shared journey - and every step counts.

Recently, we had the opportunity to work alongside Dulux on the Southern Queensland Correctional Precinct Stage 2 project to support the Dulux Envirosolutions recycling initiative.

Together with our painting contractor, we collected and recycled over 50% of the 15L paint pails used on site - preventing more than 1 tonne of plastic and 23 cubic metres of waste from ending up in landfill. ♻️

These pails will now be repurposed into new paint trays, buckets, and stirrers - giving materials a second life and reducing our environmental footprint.

We’re proud to play a part in this initiative and grateful to our partners for helping make it possible. It’s a reminder that even small actions, when done together, can lead to lasting change.

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🏆 Congratulations to our John Holland Seymour Whyte JV team, who on Friday evening collected a 2025 NSW CCF Earth Award for Sydney Gateway.

Delivered for Transport for NSW, this city-shaping project provides a toll-free connection from Sydney’s motorway network to the international and domestic terminals at Kingsford Smith Airport.

Gateway was awarded top prize by the NSW CCF in the category of projects over $150 million. Later this year, it's also up for the Australian Construction Achievement Award.

More than 8,000 sets of hands worked on Gateway for nearly four years - this one's for them!

📸 Photo courtesy of NSW CCF.

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🚆✨ Our team leading the Rail Network Alliance for Metro Tunnel has pushed the boundaries in innovation, safety, and sustainability, throughout the delivery of this complex brown and greenfield rail project for Melbourne. This includes:

🚄 Upgrading the Pakenham and Sunbury lines and connecting them into the Metro Tunnel at the Western Portal in South Kensington and the Eastern Portal in South Yarra

⚡ Delivering Victoria’s first underground railway substation at South Yarra, which saved time and money for the project

📡 Deploying Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) technology to Melbourne’s rail network for the first time

🛠️ Implementing an innovative 4D modelling tool to improve safety, productivity, construction methodology, and communication

🌱 Achieving a ‘Leading’ IS rating from the Infrastructure Sustainability Council

🤝 Creating lasting social and economic value for Victorians, including exceeding employment targets for priority job seekers and First Nations Peoples and social procurement spend.

So we’re thrilled that this has been recognised, with the Rail Network Alliance - Metro Tunnel Project being named a finalist for the 2025 Australasian Rail Industry Awards in the Infrastructure Project Excellence category.

Thank you to our incredible John Holland team, partners, and stakeholders. It’s the strong collaboration throughout the Alliance that has led to us achieving these great outcomes for this project, which will transform how people get around Melbourne.

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It’s been 18 months since people and their furry friends have been strolling above four-megawatt transformers. ⚡🐶



You’d never guess that 30 metres beneath the Siding Reserve park in South Yarra lie two four-megawatt transformers with 37 km of electrical cabling.



Our team leading the Rail Network Alliance for Metro Tunnel delivered a Victorian first – building the substation underground, leaving plenty of space above for picnics and dog walks in the park.



Crews switched on the substation in January 2023, which converts the local power supply into the right voltage to operate trains, signals and communication equipment for the Metro Tunnel.

In fact, it supplies 20 million amps to the Metro Tunnel - the equivalent of supplying power to around 2800 households! 🏡

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🏆 Industry Recognition for Excellence at Waterfront Brisbane

We’re proud to be recognised by the Australian Institute of Building QLD at this year’s Professional Excellence Awards, taking home the win in the Other Construction category for our work on the deconstruction of Eagle Street Pier and Riverwalk, part of Dexus's visionary Waterfront Brisbane project.


The highly complicated land and marine deconstruction elements took us and our subcontractors and Fitzgerald Constructions Australia Pty Ltd 20 months to complete with more than 98% of materials successfully recycled and diverted from landfill.



These unusual deconstruction works at Eagle Street Pier required numerous custom-built, bespoke engineering and construction solutions to mitigate fall risks, environmental risks and manage transport logistics through the city.



To have completed the works with zero incidents is a credit to everyone involved for the safety-first approach adopted at every step.



With deconstruction well behind us, we are excited to be future focused on delivery Stage 1 of Dexus’s Waterfront Brisbane in its place.



Come 2028, Brisbane will have a new premium waterfront address to celebrate.



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Since the installation of our Solpods at the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 3 project in December 2023, we've saved 79 tonnes of CO2 emissions - that's equivalent to planting 4,333 trees. 🌳



Our Solpods power our construction site offices along the 6.7kilometres of the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 3 alignment. 💡

Solpods are a relocatable solar energy system, which means they can be packed up and moved from one location to another - so they can keep doing the job of powering the next construction site! 🙌🏽



It's all part of John Holland's journey to Net Zero - with a renewable energy focus on transitioning our project sites, plant yards and corporate offices to be powered by 100% renewable sources.



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🌏 This National Reconciliation Week we’re focusing on the lessons of the past and present to shape a more inclusive and respectful future. At John Holland, we’re committed to making reconciliation real - through action, reflection, and relationships built on trust.

We’re marking the week with events across our sites, which focus on how we’re working across the five dimensions of reconciliation - race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance. From embedding First Nations artwork in our projects through genuine consultation, to building long-term partnerships with community groups, we’re committed to real reconciliation.

We’re also engaging local consultants to help us grow new relationships, support career development, and empower First Nations suppliers economically.

Reconciliation is a journey - and we’re walking it together.

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🏳️‍🌈 Proud. Honoured. Grateful. 🏆


We’re proud to share that John Holland has been recognised as a Gold Tier Employer at the 2025 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Awards! 🌟


This recognition is testament to our work building a workplace where everyone feels safe, respected, and empowered to be their authentic selves.


At John Holland, inclusion is a way of working. From our employee-led Pride Network to our inclusive policies and leadership accountability, we’re building a culture where diversity is celebrated every day.


To our LGBTQ+ employees, allies, and partners - this Gold is yours. Thank you for your commitment, your advocacy, and your belief in a better, more inclusive future.


Let’s keep building it - together. 💛


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