The Company is pleased to announce our 2010/11 annual results today with the release of our Annual Review.   During the last financial year the McConnell Dowell Group secured A$2.85 billion in new works in a challenging trading environment. The Group has a record work in hand of A$3.0 billion and is well positioned around our current and future clients, markets, and opportunities to capitalise on this.   McConnell Dowell remains committed to working alongside our clients and business partners to deliver the right project solutions into the future. We would like to take this opportunity to thank clients, partners and stakeholders for their support throughout the year. We value your custom, and look Read more

The Company is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, www.macdowfabrication.com, a site dedicated to our fabrication services which are strategically located across the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. McConnell Dowell Fabrication has over two decades experience delivering top quality products, on time and safely, for major international companies in the metals and minerals, oil and gas, and energy sectors. Three world class fabrication facilities owned and run by a world class engineering business: go on, take a look.  www.macdowfabrication.com   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 Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that the St Mary’s Water Recycling Project, delivered under the Deerubbin Water Futures JV, has won two awards at the Sydney 2011 Engineering Excellence Awards announced at the Engineers Australia Sydney Division dinner on Friday night. These awards were: • A high commendation for excellence in the Environment and Heritage Category; and • An award finalist in the Infrastructure Projects category, as a joint submission with our client, Sydney Water. These awards recognise the St Mary’s Water Recycling Project’s outstanding achievements in the advancement of the science and practice of engineering. St Mary’s is believed to be the world’s first large-scale project producing high-quality recycled water for the Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that McConnell Dowell South East Asia Pte Ltd has been awarded the fabrication and supply contract of eight process modules for Alstom Power Singapore Pte Ltd. These modules will be fabricated in Batam and delivered to Keppel Merlimau Cogen II power station on Jurong Island, Singapore. This is McConnell Dowell’s third award by Alstom at the Merlimau site, the previous being for both civil and marine works, highlighting the breadth of service the Company can offer. These modules also further highlight the broad capability of the yard itself, with the scope of work covering end to end construction. This includes complete fabrication of the steelwork and Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that McConnell Dowell South East Asia Pte Ltd has been awarded a supply, design, delivery, installation and commissioning contract for the Cement Unloader and Cement Conveyor System for Terminal 2 at the Jurong Port project by Jurong Port Pte Ltd. McConnell Dowell will be delivering these works in partnership with IBAU Hamburg (a cement ship unloader specialist) and Aggregates Engineering (a conveyor system specialist). The scope of work includes the supply, design, delivery, installation and   commissioning of the Cement Ship Unloader, Conveyor Belt System and Cement Transfer System; as well as civil, structural steel, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation works. Work will commence immediately, and delivery is forecast Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that the Barwon Heads Bridge project won the Victorian Civil Contractors Federation (CCF) Category 4 ( $20m - $75m ) award at their 2011 Earth Awards dinner on Friday night. The CCF, in their 18th year, recognises construction and environmental excellence by Australian civil contractors, and is the most prestigious award in the civil construction industry. This win recognises 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 Read more

The Company is pleased to advise of a number of recent industry awards won by Built Environs. At the Master Builders Association (MBA) SA Building Excellence Awards ceremony on Friday night, Built Environs had great success, with two projects receiving an award in their category.  These awards were for: Excellence in a Commercial / Industrial Building over $50m for a landmark project for the Adelaide Oval Western Grandstand Redevelopment team; and Excellence in a Commercial / Industrial Building in the $10m - $20 m commercial building category for the GP Plus Health Care Centre Elizabeth project. WA has also seen recent success with the Wesley College Transition Building project team picking up an Australian Institute Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that the Ambuklao and Binga Hydropower Plants Project achieved 2,000,000 man hours LTI free on Friday 5 August. This significant achievement was achieved during the rehabilitation project that will soon yield 225MW of Hydro Power into the national grid of the Philippines. Ambuklao station is already supplying power to the grid and final pre-commissioning shutdown of Binga station is well underway. Safety has been a large focus on the project and the McConnell Dowell site team, together with the project engineers ( Norconsult ) and client (SN Aboitiz Power), have worked tirelessly to bring this project home safely.   ENDS About McConnell Dowell Corporation Limited: McConnell Dowell is a Read more

McConnell Dowell, Fletcher, Obayashi, Beca, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Tonkin & Taylor consortium prove winning formula for NZTA’s significant Waterview link. The New Zealand Transport Agency has today awarded Auckland’s Waterview connection contract to a consortium of partners including constructors, McConnell Dowell, Fletcher Construction and Obayashi Corporation, and designers Beca, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Tonkin & Taylor.  The consortium will work together with NZTA to deliver the project and the partners bring significant expertise to the project, including specific tunnel design, system and construction expertise at both a local and international level.  This is the single largest project ever delivered in New Zealand to date. The Waterview connection is integral to the completion of Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that The Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have awarded McConnell Dowell Constructors Aust Pty Ltd the design and construct, and the operate and maintain contracts for the Adelaide Living Beaches Sand Transfer Infrastructure project in Adelaide SA. The scope of work includes the design and construction of: 9km of DN315 HDPE slurry delivery pipework; Five slurry pumping stations; 3.7km of DN400 seawater supply pipework; and Two sea water supply pump platforms. The operate and maintain contract involves winning beach sand from two locations and pumping through the system for discharge at 16 locations along the metropolitan coast line over Read more

MCJV, a joint venture between McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd and Consolidated Contracting Company Australia Pty Ltd, today announced it will commence immediate delivery of the Australia Pacific LNG 415 km main export pipeline and associated facilities. The delivery of the 36” and 42” diameter gas pipeline and associated facilities from the coal seam gas (CSG) fields in the Surat and Bowen basins in south western and central Queensland to Curtis Island, off Gladstone, follows MCJV’s completion of the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and early works contract awarded in December 2009 by Australian Pacific LNG. Mark Twycross, General Manager - Pipelines, McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd said the project Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that Fortescue Metals Pty Ltd (Fortescue) has awarded McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd a design and construct contract for a fourth iron ore loading berth, with an option of a fifth, at their Anderson Point Facility in Port Hedland. The scope of work includes the supply and installation of: 415m of wharf superstructure Access jetties Navigational aids 9 berthing dolphins All mechanical components of a material handling system used to supply a new shiploader These works form part of the 155Mtpa expansion of the Port Facility. Design activities commence immediately, with on-site construction activities to begin in late 2011, and project completion scheduled for October 2012. This award represents McConnell Dowell’s fourth Read more