Our Values
Safety - Everybody goes home without harm at the end of the day
Sustainability - We act today with the future in mind
Relationships - Committed to creating and maintaining long-term relationships
People - We equip, inspire and empower our people to be their best
Creative - Creating solutions to meet our customer's needs
Excellence - Committed to getting it right the first time
Fair Return - Reward for all commensurate with the value delivered
Integrity - Honesty, respect and equitable treatment for all, without compromise
About Us
Australian based, McConnell Dowell (MacDow) is a world class engineering, construction and maintenance company with business units in civil and marine, mechanical, electrical, pipelines, tunnelling and underground services.
The company employs about 5,000 personnel and operates throughout Australia; New Zealand, the Pacific Islands; South East Asia and the Middle East.
The broad geographic spread and service offering means the company has delivered infrastructure projects across a diversity of markets and heavy industry sectors, including civil infrastructure; industrial plants, mining and metals; oil and gas; petrochemical and chemical; power; transportation and water, on a self-perform basis.
MacDow performs customised engineering and construction from traditional hard money construction through engineer, procure and construct, and alliance contracts.
It continually delivers safe, quality projects that are on time, to or under budget in an environmentally sound manner for its Clients.
Clients are provided with creative construction solutions tailored to their particular project challenges – from a local specialist with internationally backed expertise –continually delivering operational excellence with no compromise on it's commitment to safety.
The company has an impressive portfolio of repeat business clientele which are testament to MacDow's ability to work along side clients – successfully delivering their goals and objectives.
With almost 50 years of proven track record, MacDow has built a reputation for successfully undertaking high risk and technically difficult projects using engineering skills to assess the risks, devise solutions, overcome the challenges and then quantify the risks economically.
MacDow is focused on meeting and exceeding clients’ requirements through creativity and teamwork while promoting industry excellence in the management of safety, quality, environment and human relations in every project it undertakes.
Our Markets
| Infrastructure | Complete construction service for the mass transit, ports and harbours, industrial plants and facilities and industries. |
| Petrochemical & Chemical | Facility and ancillary construction service for the oil and gas, petroleum refining, petrochemical, chemical, gas to liquids. |
| Pipelines / HDD | EPC service for oil and gas, slurry, water, and refined-products pipelines including horizontal directional drilling (HDD) capability. |
| Oil & Gas | Complete construction service for the oil and gas facilities from near shore pipelines, jetties, load-out facilities, terminals, plants and pipelines. |
| Power | Electrical generating plants using oil, gas, coal and other combustion fuels; renewable energies; transmission and distribution. |
| Mining & Metals | Light metals, industrial minerals, non-ferrous metals, iron & steel, mining and mineral processing. |
| Water & Wastewater | Distribution mains, water transmission pipelines, water storage facilities, intakes and outfalls, water treatment plants, pump stations and water & sewerage transmission tunnels. |
Our Engineering, Construction & Services Competencies
| Civil | Infrastructure and development projects, including construction of roads, bridges, water treatment facilities, and heavy industrial plants − all industry sectors. |
| Marine | Wharves, jetties, ocean outfalls, breakwaters, causeways, and submarine pipelines − complete turnkey EPC service. |
| Underground Mining & Tunnelling | Drill and Blast, Road Header, Continuous Miner, Hard Rock TBM, both EPB and Slurry Shield TBM and Micro-Tunnelling in all ranges of geological formations, from soft alluviums to hard rock. |
| Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation | Complete construction service in green and brown-field facilities including fabrication, field erection, civil, mechanical, piping, and electrical installation works through to commissioning − all industry sectors. |
| Pipelines | Over 20,000 kms of pipelines installed globally to 50″ dia. Experience in all types of product pipelines in varying terrains and remote and difficult locations. Complete EPC turnkey service. |
| Electrix | Installation and maintenance services for asset owners in the commercial, industrial, high voltage transmission (lines and sub-stations), generation, distribution and asset inspection business sectors. |
| Stockton Pipelines | HDD installations to diameters of up to 48″ in all ranges of geological formations, from soft alluviums to hard rock. |
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