The Company is pleased to announce that McConnell Dowell Constructors Thai Ltd. has been awarded two fabrication contracts. Outotec  Pty Ltd awarded the Company a fabrication contract for Mine processing equipment steelwork associated with the Metropolitan Coal Mine in Queensland. Lane Xang Minerals Limited awarded the Company the fabrication contract for Structural Support Steelwork for an EW Service Crane, located on the Sepon Mine site, Laos. Read more

Contract Award Extension – Asset Inspection and Maintenance Services, Electrix, Victoria The Company is pleased to announce that Powercor Australia has awarded Electrix Pty Ltd a further extension to the existing contract for provision of Asset Inspection and Maintenance Services on the Powercor and CitiPower electricity networks in Melbourne and Western Victoria. The contract includes a cyclical inspection program for network assets in high bushfire risk areas. Electrix has successfully provided a similar range of services for Powercor since 1997 when the original Asset Inspection contract was signed. The contract has been retained continuously over this period with regular benchmarking… Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that Towngas has awarded McConnell Dowell Constructors Hong Kong Ltd, in joint venture with Kaden Construction Ltd, a contract for the installation of submarine gas pipelines and associated facilities from To Kwa Wan to North Point in Hong Kong.  The scope of work involves: Laying of twin 450 mm diameter submarine gas pipelines across Victoria Harbour – approximately 3.2 km. The twin submarine pipelines will be installed and buried in one common trench below the seabed; Laying of 600 mm diameter land gas mains for approximately 1.1 km, from the proposed To Kwa Wan Gas Pigging station to the Intermediate Pressure B (IPB) Network; and Testing and commissioning Read more

The Company is pleased to announce the successful commission of the twin stormwater diversion pipes through the station box at the Beauty World Project in Singapore. These pipes are temporary works to divert an existing major stormwater culvert that runs through the middle of the Beauty World Station. With water now flowing through the pipes, this important step allows us to demolish the existing drain and proceed with Stage 3 excavation for the station box. The twin pipes are necessary to temporarily divert the flows of the existing box culvert. These diversion pipes, which are 2.8 m dia, will be suspended from the upper struts of the excavated structure, with excavation to Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd, as a part of the Northern Network Alliance (NNA), has laid the last pipe of the 48 kilometre Northern Pipeline Interconnector (NPI) – Stage 2 project. In another great milestone, the NNA Pipeline project has also just completed 500,000 man-hours LTI free, an exceptional safety achievement indicative of the dedication, planning and management of the project team to deliver this project safely. NPI Stage 2 is the final component of both the south east Queensland water grid and McConnell Dowell’s six years of dedicated work to secure south east Queensland’s water supply. McConnell Dowell has been at the construction forefront Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that the Whangarei District Council have awarded McConnell Dowell, in joint venture with Transfield Services, the contract for the construction of a new bridge over the Lower Hatea River in Whangarei, New Zealand.  Procured through an ECI process, the project includes bridge approaches over geotechnically challenging ground and a new 265 metre long Bascule Bridge spanning the River. This is an exciting achievement for the Company as the new bridge will be the first Bascule road bridge to be built in New Zealand in the last 50 years. There was a requirement for this bridge to have an iconic design that recognises the cultural history of Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that Baltec Inlet and Exhaust System Pty Ltd have awarded McConnell Dowell Constructors Thai Ltd a fabrication project for five Bypass Exhaust Systems for Daewoo E & C for their Oman Sur IPP Combined Cycle Power Plant Project. The scope of work consists of 2,000 tonnes of fabricated platework. The fabrication work will commence immediately with all units due to be completed by June 2012. ENDS About McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited: McConnell Dowell is a major engineering, construction, building and maintenance contractor delivering infrastructure to the building, mining, oil & gas, power, petrochemical, social & public infrastructure, transport and water sectors. The Group has a broad construction offering with Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that McConnell Dowell has been ranked the 6th largest participant in Australia's Top 40 Contractors in 2010/11. The rankings were published in the November edition of Contractor Magazine who reviewed and ranked revenues of contractors who have civil / mining works as a major source of revenue. It is pleasing to note that Built Environs also ranked 27th in the Top 40 which continues to give them National market recognition.   ENDS About McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited: McConnell Dowell is a major engineering, construction, building and maintenance contractor delivering infrastructure to the building, mining, oil & gas, power, petrochemical, social & public infrastructure, transport and water sectors. The Group has a Read more

26 October 2011 The Company is pleased to advise that the Barwon Heads Bridge project was awarded the Civil Contractors Federation (CCF) Category 4 National Award at the 2011 Awards dinner presented to the team at the Gold Coast on Saturday night. The project won the award based on the project team’s excellent management of a challenging project which involved significant construction underpinned by extensive stakeholder and community management. The project entailed the building of 300m long road and pedestrian bridges, as well as road and pavement works on each side of the Barwon River, working around pedestrians, public traffic,… Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that Electrix Ltd has been awarded the contract for the electrical refurbishment of the iconic ANZ Centre in Auckland. The scope of works for the project involves the refurbishment of 25 floors. These will be the new offices for a high profile tenant. The project has two main areas of work: · The major upgrade of the main riser, MSB’s and a new standby generation plant for a 100% backup power system; and · The complete refurbishment of 25 floors to the tenants design. Electrix were the original contractors during the construction of the building, and have maintained the building for various owners over the past 20 years. Read more

State Water Corporation has awarded a contract to strengthen the southern training wall at Hume Dam to McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd. State Water program director Mel Jackson said a mass concrete buttress would be constructed against the southern training wall, downstream of the spillway. “Essentially the buttress will provide greater support to the embankment to enable it to better withstand extreme floods and earthquakes,” Mr Jackson said. The concrete buttress is the second stage of a $60 million program of works to improve the structure’s capacity to handle extreme events and to ensure compliance with contemporary best practice. The project is funded by the governments of Australia, NSW, Victoria and South Australia Read more

The Company is pleased to announce an important milestone in McConnell Dowell (Aust) Pty Ltd’s involvement in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (or ASKAP) radio telescope project. Leaving from Lonsdale, South Australia and beginning tomorrow, thirteen trucks will each carry a 15 metre hi-tech steel module to outback Western Australia. The modules will make up the control building of CSIRO’s ASKAP. ASKAP is currently being built at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in remote Western Australia, and once built will help CSIRO and astronomers from around the world answer fundamental questions about our Universe. The development of the specialised control building, involving a collaborative process between CSIRO, Aurecon, McConnell Dowell and local business Read more