Contracts

SPECIAL REPORT: A joint venture between a major contractor in the Mid West and a traditional owner group has been many years in the making.

Osborne Park-based BGC Contracting has won a $700 million contract for work on Idemitsu Australia Resources’ Boggabri coal mine in NSW.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has won two new contracts totalling $170 million, one of which is for further work on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin.

Shipbuilder Austal has won a $779 million contract to build another littoral combat ship for the US Navy.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has announced a number of contract wins worth a combined $100 million, with the majority of the work to be carried out by recently acquired, Sydney-based subsidiary Heyday.

Monadelphous Group has won a five-year contract to provide its services to a number of Woodside Petroleum’s operations in the North West.

Alliance Airlines has extended its provision of air charter services for Citic Pacific Mining in the Pilbara region, having signed a new five-year contract.  

Perth-based construction company Whittens has won a $22 million contract to provide its services to MACH Energy Australia’s Mount Pleasant thermal coal project in NSW.

The Housing Authority has awarded seven regional construction contracts worth a combined $25.5 million.

Concrete construction group Whittens has won a contract to provide its services to the construction of cryogenic tanks at the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin for an undisclosed sum.

A joint venture between Civmec and Amec Foster Wheeler has been formally awarded a $298 million engineering, procurement and construction contract for Gold Road Resources’ Gruyere gold project.

Engineering company Wood Group has won a $US6 million ($A7.9 million) contract to provide its services to Woodside Petroleum’s Greater Western Flank project in the North West Shelf.

Perth-based technology company DTI Group has been earmarked to provide its systems to new trains being built in South Africa.

Monadelphous Group has won a contract to complete cryogenic tanks at the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin – the same job that Laing O’Rourke walked away from in March.

SPECIAL REPORT: The Italian contractor managing Perth’s largest infrastructure project has outlined some of the hurdles it faces doing business in WA.

MACA has been named preferred contractor for a $100 million open pit mining services job at Ramelius Resources’ Mt Magnet gold project.

Henderson-based Civmec has received $90 million worth of contracts for work on a number of projects nationwide, with the most significant being a construction job at Alcoa of Australia’s Pinjarra alumina refinery.

A joint venture between Decmil Group and Belgian company BESIX Group has won a $21 million contract to build tug facilities in Port Hedland for Fortescue Metals Group.

Construction of Christ Church Grammar School’s $27.3 million, three-storey preparatory school will start soon, with PS Structures announcing that it has been awarded a contract for work on the proj

Global Construction Services’ half-owned subsidiary, Gallery Facades, has won a $62 million contract with Lendlease for work on the east coast.

Five local companies will share in a combined $92 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government, with the majority of the work comprising school construction jobs.

Perth-based contractor Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has won $25 million in contracts for work on Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite project in Queensland, bringing to about $150 million the value of contracts earned this month.

Perth-based Swift Networks has won contracts with clients in the aged care and offshore LNG markets for an undisclosed sum.

The Housing Authority has awarded three contracts for construction in regional areas.

An Auckland-based industrial services provider has won a contract with Woodside Petroleum to build a treatment plant in Karratha to process waste from the energy giant’s oil and gas operations, for an undisclosed sum.

Indigenous group Pindari has won a multi-million dollar contract to provide cleaning, grounds maintenance and associated services at nine of Rio Tinto’s mine sites in the Pilbara.

Local indigenous business Redspear Safety has won a contract to supply lifting and rigging equipment across all Fortescue Metals Group operational sites, for an undisclosed sum.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering’s recently acquired Sydney-based subsidiary, Heyday5, has been awarded more than $50 million of new contracts to carry out electrical services work on a number of major development projects.

Diversified contractor SRG has secured a five-year, $100 million agreement with Perth-based mining and construction firm BGC Contracting.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has secured a new subcontract with property group Lendlease worth approximately $30 million.

The state government has awarded three new roads projects to the contractors that had been working on the Roe 8 development, while also confirming the net cost of abandoning the latter project will be about $45 million.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering, through its KSJV joint venture with energy service provider Kentech, has received over $30 million of additional orders under a subcontract with Bechtel.