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Health & Safety
Safety is paramount to our success.
Safety isn’t a word or a brand, a label or a sign, it’s a way of thinking.
No matter where you sit in MacDow, from CEO to General Managers, to Line Management and down through every employee, safety is a belief and a goal that is paramount above all else.
This is about respecting our heritage and protecting what we believe in. It provides us with our moral compass and keeps us true to ourselves. It builds a family in which everyone is looking out for everyone else. You can’t buy safety, and just “ticking the box” won’t do either. Safety 
Sustainability & Environment
Our environmental procedures are second to none, with our recent projects taking out the Civil Contractors Federation Earth Awards for innovative and environmentally-friendly project design and delivery.
Recent CCF Award winners include:
Lorne Pier Redevelopment Project, Victoria (2007)
Meander RCC Dam, Tasmania (2008)
Quality
We raise the bar for corporate excellence, and we make sure all our employees are accountable. Mediocrity gets us nowhere.
For many organisations excellence is all about systems and procedures. Don’t get us wrong, these are important and we have systems and procedures that have been honed and refined over 50 years of doing what we do. We’ve got procedures to efficiently move men and machines along 500 km pipe routes, to drive piles 40 m into the seabed and to move bridges across live rail lines. Our systems are all accredited to the exacting
History
1960
McConnell Dowell is formed by entrepreneurial New Zealand engineers Malcolm McConnell and Jim Dowell.
Community
McConnell Dowell is committed to contributing to improving the quality of life in societies throughout the geographic footprint we trade in.
Our CSR Policy aims to reduce poverty; improve the quality of life and opportunities for disadvantaged groups through promotion of community based projects relating to self help, empowerment, capacity building and skills development.
The CSR Policy also assists educational institutions in encouraging or increasing the number of mathematics and science students and relevant trade skills in order to contribute to the development of priority skills in our industry.
We assist our CSR endeavours through either donations or enouraging our employees to participate in voluntary works.
Current CSR Initiatives include:
Little Sisters of the
About Us
There’s a story to every project we build. A personality ingrained by those who design and build it. No matter what your project, we offer the people, the smarts, the desire and dedication to get it done. We don’t just build public and private infrastructure, we offer an holistic approach to every project, big or small, no matter what it is or where it’s located.
Our creative approach is what makes us stand out from the crowd, and that’s why our projects consistently win engineering and environmental awards. Anyone can build it, but we build it better, and we built it to last. Each of our business units have the
Message from CEO, David Robinson
I am delighted to present a Company to you that is 'built to last' and is proud to have continually delivered the right engineering and construction solutions for our public and private sector clients since its inception in 1960.
There is a story in every project we build. A personality ingrained by those who design and build it. No matter what our Clients' project challenge, we will offer the people, the smarts, the desire and dedication to get the job done right. We don’t just build public and private infrastructure, we make a commitment to understand our Clients' needs and offer an end-to-end solution to every project, big or
Vision & Values
Vision
A world class Engineering, Construction & Maintenance Company
Values Safety - Everybody goes home without harm at the end of the day Sustainability - We act today with the
MacDow Capability
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Dan Morgan wins APIA Award
The Company is pleased to announce that Dan Morgan has been presented with the 2009 Australian Pipeline Industry Association (APIA) Young Achievement Award.
Dan received the award at the 2009 APIA Convention and Exhibition held in Cairns, Queensland on 19 October 2009. Noel Pearson, who is a notable advocate of Cape York Partnerships and Indigenous Land Rights in north Queensland, presented Dan with the award.
Ashley Kellett, APIA President, said “Dan has been an outstanding and energetic supporter of APIA activities over the recent years and he is one of the people who represent the next generation of our industry”.
“On Top of his work with McConnell Dowell, Dan has thrown himself into