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Walking together - celebrating NAIDOC Week 2025 🖤💛❤️

This week at John Holland, we honour and celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as part of NAIDOC Week 2025.

Across our project sites, our teams have come together to reflect, learn and connect through powerful cultural experiences — including broadcasting interviews from elders, showcasing Aboriginal businesses, learning about local plants, a Welcome to Country with a moving Corroboree dance, and a Smoking Ceremony.

Today some of our Adelaide Metro Operations team joined the NAIDOC SA March to acknowledge and celebrate a powerful milestone: 50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience.

This year’s NAIDOC theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy, reminds us of the strength, resilience and pride of First Nations Peoples and our responsibility to walk together toward a more inclusive future.

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Connecting people. That’s what our Metro Trains Sydney (MTS) JV does, with more than 1.5 million customer journeys taken on the network each week. 🚆

In a true showcase of our end-to-end capabilities, we’ve been part of Sydney Metro since it all began. From delivering the design and construction for the Tunnels and Station Civil Works contract and the Operation, Trains and Systems contract for Sydney Metro Northwest to bringing it online in 2019, when we successfully handed over operations of the network to our Metro Trains Sydney JV.

Fast forward to August 2024, when we celebrated another milestone with the Sydney Metro City line opening and our MTS JV successfully delivering day 1 operations. 🎉

The great work of the MTS team has been recognised as a finalist in the Australasian Rail Industry Awards for both:

👨‍👧 Passenger Operations Excellence Awards for delivery of the first passenger service for Metro City Line

🏗️ Infrastructure Project Excellence Awards for the successful opening of the Sydney Metro City Line

Well done to our incredible team, partners, and stakeholders, who are helping connect people across Sydney.

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Waterfront strong, safety first 🦺

Everyone who visits site agrees - Waterfront Brisbane is a highly complex environment, with large plant and equipment operating alongside a workforce of over 100 people on the ground.

This interface between plant and people is one of our key safety priorities, and it's a risk we’re all committed to managing.

To reinforce this commitment, we recently held our bi-annual Subcontractor Safety Forum, diving deep into current and future project risks and exploring the best ways to mitigate them.

A huge thank you to the subcontractors of Waterfront Brisbane for their ongoing dedication to safety. We’re proud to work alongside them to deliver outstanding outcomes for each other and our client, Dexus, as we shape this iconic precinct.

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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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