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💡 Industry to benefit from carbon intensity insights 🌱

John Holland was excited to present alongside Dexus and subcontractors Kone and A.G.Coombs at the AIRAH/MECLA Carbon Embodiment forum in Brisbane. The forum was dedicated to Waterfront Brisbane’s achievements in the sustainability space with specific reference to the challenges and opportunities to reduce embodied carbon in the building façade and services.

Targeting a 6 Star Green Star Building v1 rating, accurately quantifying carbon embodiment in the façade was a key goal. John Holland played a central role in driving this process, working closely with ThinkStep through an intensive and customised approach to deliver a detailed Lifecycle Assessment that accurately calculated the carbon intensity of the Waterfront Brisbane curtain wall façade.

The result? A verified carbon intensity calculation that will be published as an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and be available for the industry to use as a reference.

This helps close a key knowledge gap in embodied carbon, giving the industry a practical tool to drive better sustainability outcomes. 🌏

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🌱 Empowering futures: Garrett Smithers' journey through the John Holland scholarship

Through our partnership with the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (NSW AECG), we’re proud to support students like Garrett Smithers, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Wollongong and recipient of the John Holland scholarship.

💬 “Being part of the Wollongong Water Treatment Upgrade Project (D4C) early in my career has been an amazing experience. The team has been incredibly welcoming, and I’ve learned so much working on this important project.”

The scholarship is one way John Holland is working to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as they begin their careers in engineering and construction - helping build skills, confidence, and connection.

We know there’s always more to do, but we’re committed to learning, listening, and creating opportunities where we can.

Thanks to the Delivering 4 Customers (D4C) team for showing their commitment to making young professionals feel supported, valued, and part of something bigger.

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🔢 Waterfront Brisbane steel by the numbers

There’s a lot happening beneath the surface at Waterfront Brisbane! As we lay the foundations for this next-generation precinct, here’s a look at the impressive stats behind the reinforced steel cages supporting the structure above:

💪 1,370+ tonnes of reinforced steel
🏗️ 26 barrette cages forming the building core
🧱 115 diaphragm wall cages defining the basement perimeter
📏 95 deep foundation piles, up to 2.7m wide and 30m deep

Each cage is made from three sections, spliced on site to reach full depth. Fabrication is well underway offsite at the John Holland yard in Crestmead, with deliveries arriving in the early hours to keep the momentum going.

Over 30% of cages are already complete and ready for installation!

The reinforced steel is a powerful example of the scale, precision, and teamwork driving progress at Waterfront Brisbane.

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🚧 Transforming Bankstown Station for Sydney Metro 🚉

The 100-year-old Bankstown Station is getting a major makeover as part of works on the Sydenham to Bankstown Sydney Metro upgrade.

More than 100 workers from John Holland and our Joint Venture partner Laing O'Rourke have completed 80 per cent of the station upgrade works, which include a new station entrance building, concourse paving, platform screen doors and interior fit out works.

When complete the station and surrounding plaza will be key parts of Southwest Sydney's first major transport interchange.

John Holland is proud to partner with Sydney Metro on delivering this incredible project for southwest Sydney.

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🚧 Far North Queensland’s roads were extensively damaged by Tropical Cyclone Jasper 🌪️ at the end of 2023, including sections of the Palmerston Highway, west of Innisfail.

We did some initial emergency works in conjunction with the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) to help temporarily reopen the highway. Two sections suffered substantial damage requiring extensive reconstruction. We've been working on these sections since late last year. We’re looking to complete the works and return these sections to operational traffic by the middle of next year.

The recovery works are jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments through the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).

We're no strangers to FNQ, having recently delivered the award-winning Edmonton to Gordonvale upgrade of the Bruce Highway for TMR, and currently delivering a new water treatment plant at Gordonvale for Cairns Regional Council.

Big or small, metro or regional, we're proud to play our part in delivering essential infrastructure for communities far and wide.

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🚧 Far North Queensland’s roads were extensively damaged by Tropical Cyclone Jasper 🌪️ at the end of 2023, including sections of the Palmerston Highway, west of Innisfail.

We did some initial emergency works in conjunction with the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) to help temporarily reopen the highway. Two sections suffered substantial damage requiring extensive reconstruction. We've been working on these sections since late last year. We’re looking to complete the works and return these sections to operational traffic by the middle of next year.

The recovery works are jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments through the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).

We're no strangers to FNQ, having recently delivered the award-winning Edmonton to Gordonvale upgrade of the Bruce Highway for TMR, and currently delivering a new water treatment plant at Gordonvale for Cairns Regional Council.

Big or small, metro or regional, we're proud to play our part in delivering essential infrastructure for communities far and wide.

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#DepartmentOfTransportAndMainRoads
#CycloneRecovery
#FarNorthQueensland

🔧 Engineering excellence powers renewable future at Kidston ⚡

The spiral cases – which look like massive turbos – have now been successfully installed deep underground at Kidston, marking a major milestone in Australia’s first pumped hydro project in over 40 years.

These enormous components direct high-pressure water into the turbines, converting hydraulic energy into mechanical rotation. That energy then drives the generators to produce clean, renewable electricity when it's needed most.

The blue steel structure in the foreground is the pit liner – a precision-engineered casing that anchors and supports the turbine assembly under extreme load conditions.

It all sounds simple in theory, but the mechanics to make it happen require serious engineering experience and knowledge - something our team has in spades.

At Kidston, John Holland has brought together our unrivalled capabilities in tunnelling, civil construction, and mechanical and electrical engineering to provide an end-to-end delivery solution for this flagship renewable energy project.

Watch this space as we continue to share progress!

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🏘️ With affordable housing solutions in high demand, we’re proud to be delivering water and wastewater infrastructure for Sydney Water that will help unlock 4,500 new homes in the NSW Illawarra region. 💧

Our Delivering 4 Customers team is currently constructing 3.8 kilometres of new water mains and about 10 kilometres of new wastewater pipes at West Dapto. We’re also upgrading the existing wastewater pumping station at nearby Horsley.

John Holland is one of Australia’s most experienced pipeline contractors, and we’re bringing our wealth of experience and best practice work methodologies in open-cut trenching, micro-tunnelling and landscape restoration to minimise the impacts on local landholders, culturally and environmentally sensitive areas, local waterways and Key Fish Habitats (KFH).

For example - we've used micro-tunnelling to excavate seven metres below ground for one of the longest pipeline sections to avoid impacting an Endangered Ecological Community (EEC).

We’ve also been reducing our environmental footprint by using recycled materials and diverting spoil from landfill to other projects, including for the rehabilitation of a local quarry and nearby land development projects.

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