Contracts totalling $50m for two local firms

AusGroup and Southern Cross Electrical Engineering have each announced several contract wins, each worth a combined figure of around $25 million.

AusGroup said it had recently been awarded various contracts for construction and maintenance work, in total worth at least $25 million.

It secured additional work as part of its master services contract at Chevron’s Gorgon project, which comprises of providing multi-disciplinary services at Gorgon including onsite structural, mechanical and piping, electrical and instrumentation, and painting and insulation.

The company said it was also engaged to mobilise a brownfield execution team to carry out various maintenance works on the Gorgon and Wheatstone sites, and carry out a specialist scope of work on the Wheatstone offshore platform.

Furthermore, AusGroup said it would be working on BHP’s South Flank project, through a contract awarded by thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions.

It was been commissioned for the supply, fabrication, surface treatment, trial assembly and delivery of the RC03 reclaimer substructure, which AusGroup said was the largest of its kind in Australia.

Stuart Kenny was a founder of AusGroup in 1989.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering announced a number of new contract wins, also aggregating at least $25 million, in the commercial, and social and transport infrastructure sectors.

In Perth, Siemens Mobility awarded SCEE the electrical and civils scope for the 132-kilovolt/25-kilovolt traction power feeder station and track sectioning cabin for the electrified rail system on the Forrestfield Airport Link project.

The work to be delivered by SCEE is part of the Public Transport Authority’s Metronet rail expansion.

SCEE’s east coast-based subsidiary Heyday was awarded a contract by Mirvac Constructions for the electrical, communications, security and related infrastructure works associated with the redevelopment of the heritage-listed Locomotive Workshop at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney.

It said the project included demolition of existing services, and installation of infrastructure and services to support 6,200 square meters of retail and exhibition space and 20,000 square metres of commercial space, with base-building, shell and core fitout of all electrical and communication services.

Heyday recently completed building one at the ATP site for Mirvac on behalf of the CBA.

Hindmarsh Constructions awarded Heyday’s branch in the Australian Capital Territory works for the new research school of physics and engineering located at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The project encompasses the supply and installation of new HV infrastructure and specialist earthing, and to equip 22 laboratories with specialist lighting, power, control systems, power redundancy systems and communications infrastructure.

SCEE managing director Graeme Dunn said he was pleased to have recently announced such a wide range of contracts.

“I particularly note the award on the FAL is our first project on the Metronet programme, for which we see opportunities for some years to come,” he said.