Sydney Metro City & Southwest is the largest single transport undertaking in Australia’s history. ConnellGriffin has been engaged to deliver commercial management services across the major brownfield elements of the project: the Central Station Main (CSM) Works, Sydenham Station and Junction (SSJ) Works, and South West Metro (SWM) works - corridor and stations.
The Warringah Freeway Upgrade Project is part of the Western Harbour Tunnel and Beaches Link (WHTBL) Program and will upgrade approximately 4 km of the Warringah Freeway, Australia’s busiest road. The project will improve the way the existing Freeway operates, reduce merging, provide a dedicated bus lane and provide connections to the future Northern Beaches Tunnel and the Western Harbour Tunnel and into the WestConnex roadways system.
School Infrastructure NSW is responsible for delivering new school buildings, major upgrades and maintenance strategies that will ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. ConnellGriffin was appointed to developed strategic and final business cases for four highprofile infrastructure planning projects.
Parramatta Light Rail (PLR) is one of the NSW Government’s major infrastructure projects being delivered to serve a growing Sydney. Light rail will create new communities, connect great places and help both locals and visitors move around and explore what the Western Sydney region has to offer.
In December 2019, Sydney Metro signed a Project Delivery Agreement (PDA) for the Waterloo over-station development (OSD) with a development consortium made of Mirvac and John Holland Group. Under the PDA the Development Consortium bought the right to develop 68,750 sqm of GFA of highly mixed-use buildings on the Metro owned land next to the future Waterloo Station and in the air rights above it.
Randwick is identified as a Collaboration Area in the Greater Sydney Commission’s Metropolis of Three Cities due to its potential for increased productivity and innovation associated with the specialist health, education and research institutions located there. The 2018 Randwick Place Strategy recognised governance was key to optimising place outcomes, but that no single structure existed to pursue all of the actions it identified. In 2019, the RCA Group formed to explore governance structures and related actions together and appointed ConnellGriffin as Program Director.
Sydney Metro City & Southwest (SMCSW) is the largest single transport undertaking in Australia’s history. Due to open in 2024, the 30 km metro rail line will begin at the end of Sydney Metro Northwest at Chatswood, travel under Sydney Harbour, through new CBD stations and then southwest to Bankstown. The new line will be able to run a metro train every two minutes each way through Sydney’s centre.
AusNet Services is a diversified Australian energy infrastructure business with more than $10.8 billion of electricity and gas network and connection assets. ConnellGriffin has worked with AusNet Services on a number of projects.
School Infrastructure NSW is responsible for delivering new school buildings, major upgrades and maintenance strategies that will ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. ConnellGriffin was appointed to developed strategic and final business cases for four highprofile infrastructure planning projects.
The Australian and NSW Governments are planning to develop and construct a $1.6 billion motorway between the M7 Motorway and The Northern Road as part of the Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan (WSIP), a 10-year $4.1 billion road investment program.
The $2.1b South West Rail Link program is a NSW Government initiative to respond to issues of reliability and passenger growth on the existing metropolitan rail network and cater for longer term population growth in south-west Sydney.
In 2019, ConnellGriffin performed a whole of business reporting review and identified that its internal financial analysis could be automated, which would help to promptly identify financial risks to the business and also allow for realtime financial analysis.
School Infrastructure NSW is responsible for delivering new school buildings, major upgrades and maintenance strategies that will ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. ConnellGriffin was appointed to developed strategic and final business cases for four high profile infrastructure planning projects.
TransGrid appointed ConnellGriffin to undertake a forensic review of its delivery practices and performance across five completed renewable energy (wind and solar) connection projects in NSW and Victoria within its non-regulated, Business Growth division.
The M6 Stage 1 (formerly known as F6 Extension Stage 1) will deliver the missing link from Sydney’s south to the wider Sydney motorway network making journeys easier, faster and safer. It will remove more than 2,000 trucks a day from surface roads, and help return local streets to local communities.
Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) launched Collaboration Areas in 2017 to address complex city-making issues through better agency co-ordination and collaboration. Over a 2 year period, multiple organisations that influence city planning and infrastructure worked on Place Strategies, which sets out a 20-year vision and place-based priorities for each Collaboration Area. In 2019, ConnellGriffin was appointed to report on progress made since Place Strategies were released and to help the GSC evaluate the emerging local governance structures.
In order to maintain competitiveness 2020 in the wind farm construction and wholesale energy market, Goldwind Australia (GWA) is exploring multiple options for decreasing the levelised cost of energy for its pipeline of development projects.
In 2017, Blue Mountains Economic Enterprise (BMEE) released a call for expressions of interest (EOI) seeking proposals to run, manage and operate a co-working space at Civic Centre in Katoomba. The site was a former library and BMEE wanted to find a viable and productive use for the building to support economic, urban design and street activation objectives. Response to the EOI was low, and BMEE asked ConnellGriffin for an independent strategic review of the process and outcomes.
WestConnex is Australia’s largest road project and is part of an integrated transport plan to keep Sydney moving. The new 33 km motorway will ease congestion and provide vital support for Sydney’s long-term economic and population growth.
Since opening its doors in 1973, the Sydney Opera House (SOH) has become the symbol of modern Australia and the country’s premier tourist destination. However, this 20th century architectural wonder now needs to be renewed for the 21st century.
TfNSW required changes to the timetable for rail passenger services in NSW during, or before, 2018. In order to optimise the intended timetable changes, TfNSW procured new passenger trains and other related assets as part of the Sydney Growth Trains Project.
WestConnex is one of Australia’s largest road projects, linking Sydney’s west and south-west with the city, airport and port in a 33 km continuous motorway, including more than 20 km of tunnel— Australia’s longest road tunnel.
Major Projects Canberra (MPC) is the ACT body charged with planning and delivering major projects within the Territory. ConnellGriffin was engaged on the Canberra Light Rail project to provide commercial and financial leadership within the project team (Jeremy as Acting Commercial Director) for the procurement of Stage 2A, and also to manage and advise on the refinancing of Stage 1.
The NSW and Federal Governments, Transurban and the M7 Westlink Shareholders (the Project Sponsors) worked together to build, operate and maintain NorthConnex, a 9km tolled tunnel Motorway that linked the M1 Pacific Motorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 Motorway at West Pennant Hills.
Macquarie Group submitted an unsolicited proposal (USP) to Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) for the design and construction of an integrated Metro station at Martin Place and Over Station Development (OSD), including a unique offering of a pedestrian connection, under 50 Martin Place.
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