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🎉 We’re celebrating six years since the opening of Australia’s first driverless metro – Sydney Metro Northwest.



We’re proud to have been part of the consortium that delivered the design and construction for the Operation, Trains and Systems contract for this city-shaping project. The project included:



✅ Installation of 36km of new track and rail systems, including 15km of new track slab through the twin tunnels and 4km on the elevated viaduct

✅ Line-wide systems integration, testing and commissioning for operational readiness

✅ Conversion of the Sydney Trains Epping to Chatswood rail line to the new driverless metro



Since the opening, we’ve been operating and maintaining the Sydney Metro network as part of the Metro Trains Sydney (MTS) consortium.



Our end-to-end capabilities and thinking enable our teams to see the big picture, and find the right solution for today and tomorrow.

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💧🌱 Treating and converting biosolids into safe, useful by-products like fertiliser is crucial to achieving circular economy outcomes in the water sector.

As the largest water sector delivery partner in Australia, John Holland has vast experience in the delivery of water and wastewater facilities and assets. In fact, we’re currently finding new ways to treat biosolids and convert them to other uses at Sydney Water’s Riverstone Water Resource Recovery Facility, in Sydney’s north west.

We’ve been sharing some of our experience and knowledge with the rest of the industry at OzWater'25 in Adelaide this week.

Taking the ‘waste’ out of ‘wastewater’ – now that’s a challenge we’re up for!

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🏢 Waterloo tops out at 23 storeys high!



Our team behind the new 23-storey Student Accommodation building at Waterloo held a topping out ceremony recently to celebrate the building reaching its highest point.

The building, located above the new Waterloo Station will house over 400 international students and it stands next to a new 9-storey social housing building which will provide 70 new homes.


John Holland's team did some big numbers on the job, including:
🏗️ 13,000 crane lifts

🏗️ 6048 sq m of concrete poured

🏗️ 1430 tonnes of reinforcement tied



The Waterloo Metro Quarter will provide brand new options for living and working within a revitalised precinct which offers a mix of commercial, residential, social, and affordable housing, student accommodation and retail businesses, and community facilities.

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🌟 Deep below the ground in central Queensland, we've just reached a major milestone in the delivery of one of Australia’s most significant and complex renewable energy projects.


Working with the finest of tolerances, our team has successfully installed the first spiral case at Kidston, the site of Australia’s first pumped hydro project in over 40 years.



This complex piece of infrastructure is a key part of the underground powerhouse, directing high-pressure water into the turbine. Getting to this point has required enormous coordination, expertise and determination - from the completion of the deep underground excavation just over a year ago to the precision concrete works and heavy cranage.



At John Holland, we pride ourselves on bringing experience, insight and innovation to the most complex of infrastructure challenges, and Kidston is right up there with the best of them.



Next up is the installation of the turbine itself, followed by commissioning and the final drive toward first power. Bring it on!

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🚇 Now that's what we call a cavern! Hunter Street cavern excavation complete.

Deep underneath the heart of Sydney's CDB, our Sydney Metro West – Eastern Tunnelling Package team has been busy excavating what will become the Hunter Street station on the Sydney Metro West line.

The cavern is 28-metres wide, 20-metres tall and 180-metres long and will be the largest station cavern in the Sydney Metro system.

We're proud of our part in delivering Australia's biggest public transport network - transforming lives now and for generations to come.

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🏗️🎉 The final concrete has been poured at Metro Tunnel's State Library Station!

The team building the Metro Tunnel hit a major milestone recently with the completion of structural concrete elements at State Library Station.

The final pour at A'Beckett Street takes the total amount of concrete poured in the precinct to around 100,000 cubic metres, along with 35,000 tonnes of reinforced steel fixed.

One memorable stage of the structures package was the arch pours within the ‘trinocular’ cavern. Located up to 40 meters beneath Swanston Street, this impressive structure consists of a 220-meter-long platform tunnel, comprising two rail tunnels separated by a central tunnel.

The Metro Tunnel is due for completion later this year.

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🚂🚧 Our team delivering the Inland Rail Beveridge to Albury (B2A) Tranche 2 will kick off major works on the project this week with works starting in Euroa. Earlier this week Welcome to Country and smoking ceremonies were held at the Broadford and Euroa sites to mark this milestone.

Working with Inland Rail we’ll draw on our deep expertise in brownfield rail projects when work begins on four bridge replacements, a vehicle underpass, railway track lowers and station modifications to allow sufficient clearance for double-stacked freight trains.

Construction will soon follow at other sites, including the bridge replacements at Broadford and Wandong, a station modification at Benalla and several areas of track lowering, including under the Hume Freeway at Tallarook and Seymour.

As we deliver the project, we’ll focus on continuing our relationship with the local communities to ensure we leave a long-lasting legacy for the region.

Once complete the project will enable the safe operation of double-stacked freight trains across eight B2A Tranche 2 project sites between Wandong and Benalla, helping to transform how goods are moved around Australia, generating opportunities for our regions and our economy, now and in the future.

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🏆 Last night Sydney Metro City won Project of the Year at the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia Awards – and we’re proud of the role we played in this city-shaping project.

🚆 Not only is the driverless metro network run by one of our Operations and Maintenance joint ventures – Metro Trains Sydney – with the team supporting testing and commissioning and leading trial running to prepare the network for opening.

🚧 But we also delivered the first rail tunnels under Sydney Harbour for Sydney Metro City, as part of the Tunnelling and Station Excavation joint venture. The huge project, which was delivered ahead of time, tunnelled under Sydney’s CBD to create some of Australia’s most complex underground station structures.

🔧 Our Sydenham Station Junction project undertook complex works to integrate Sydney Metro at Sydenham Station. The team delivered construction to extend Sydenham station, including building a new Sydney Metro concourse and platforms, plus track, signalling, and overhead line work to facilitate the Metro running through the junction.

🏗️ While our Waterloo Station project was the last Design and Construct contract to be awarded along the Sydney Metro city alignment, but it was the first station to successfully reach completion.

Congratulations to everyone involved in delivering Sydney Metro City – it’s transforming how people travel around Sydney and we’re so proud to have helped deliver it.

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