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Inspiring Stories | Hala Nader

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In 2018, Lendlease was the first construction contractor to establish a 3-year partnership with CareerSeekers, paving the way for over 100 refugee and asylum seekers to undertake internship opportunities within the business. Our partnership with CareerSeekers is a natural evolution of our strategy to attract new entrants to the industry and follows our ongoing partnership with CareerTrackers.

Over the last two years collaborating with CareerSeekers, 67 interns have supported Lendlease projects with 82% of eligible participants securing ongoing employment beyond their internship. We are proud of the impact we are driving within our projects and the opportunity we are providing for our people to contribute to our business and build themselves a better future. Hala Nader from our Environment and Sustainability team exemplifies this experience.

Hala Nader | Environmental and Sustainability Coordinator at Lendlease

Hala Nader is a CareerSeekers Intern who commenced with Lendlease Engineering in April 2018 after completing her 12-week internship. Originally from Syria, she left in 2015 due to the war and went to Iraq. After two and half years in Iraq, Hala and her family applied for humanitarian visas to Australia to escape the rising conflict in Iraq.

Hala and her husband and young daughter arrived in Australia in April 2017 ready to commence their new lives. Hala who has a degree in Civil Engineering with environmental background, joined the Environment and Sustainability team at Lendlease’s Level Crossing Removal – Caulfield to Dandenong Project in Melbourne where she added immense value and was a key member of the sustainability team. She has since commenced on the Level Crossing Removal – Southern Program Alliance Project to continue her career growth and onsite construction experiences.

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Hala’s enthusiasm and continued quest to learn and grow in her career, and new country, acts as a symbol for the CareerSeekers program and the barriers it is breaking down.

Read more stories here.

“Thank you Auckland” says City Rail Link after tunnel walk

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“Thank you Auckland” says City Rail Link after tunnel walk

The City Rail Link project is thanking Aucklanders for their support after Sunday’s successful Walk the Tunnels open day.

Thousands of people walked the 600 metres through the first section of the twin rail tunnels adjoining the Britomart station in lower Queen Street.

“It was a tremendously successful and positive day and it was very clear everyone enjoyed themselves,” says City Rail Link Ltd’s Chief Executive,  Dr[i] Sean Sweeney.

“The City Rail Link is Aucklanders’ project, after all,  and it was great opportunity to open the door a wee bit and give them a sneak inside of what they can expect when the project finishes in five years.”

Dr Sweeney describes the large turnout as a big plus for the project.

“I want to thank everyone who came along – it was a great demonstration of support for our work and the engineering skills behind it.”

Dr Sweeney has thanked Auckland Transport for its support for the Walk the Tunnel event – the Britomart station was used as the entry and exit point for the underground walk.

“AT’s co-operation was a key part of a successful day.  They helped us make sure people got the best from the walk, while keeping the city’s train services running smoothly.”

CRL construction in lower Queen Street, suspended for the Walk the Tunnels event, has now resumed.

Construction of CRL will be completed in five years and Dr Sweeney says there will be other opportunities to welcome Aucklanders on site.

“We will have a lot more to show people in the years ahead, and we know from the feedback we received yesterday that there is tremendous enthusiasm to visit us again.”

More information about the CRL project is available at https://www.cityraillink.co.nz

Case Study | Sydney Metro City & Southwest Tunnel and Station Excavation Works

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2019 Infrastructure Sustainability Awards Case Study
Sydney Metro City & Southwest Tunnel and Station Excavation Works
Proponents: John Holland, CPB & GHELLA JV
Sydney Metro’s fully automated rapid transit system is Australia’s biggest public transport project. The major tunnelling and station excavation works for Sydney Metro City & Southwest (TSE Works) involve construction of 15.5 km of twin railway tunnels which will travel under Sydney Harbour, and excavating complex underground structures for six new metro railway stations. The project commenced on June 2017, with design stage completion in April 2019.

Sydney Metro City and Southwest TSE Design received a final verified score of 100 and therefore a level of “Leading”. This is the highest score achieved for an IS Rating to date.

The project achieved an Australian first for its innovative Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Assembly Methodology. The innovative approach to carrying out TBM assembly works utilised a bespoke rotation frame to enable assembly to be carried out on the surface instead of within the dive excavation. This has a number of flow-on benefits, including the ability to reuse the 280 tonne gantry crane at multiple sites instead of conducting dual lifts with mobile/crawler cranes. Sustainability benefits of this innovation include minimising resources (materials, energy, waste) and reducing impacts on the community (noise, air quality). This method also significantly reduced safety risks for workers.

Sydney Metro’s comprehensive workforce development and industry participation programs are increasing workforce capability and capacity, reducing skills shortages and gaps, improving workforce diversity and productivity and providing local sustainable employment.

It is evident that the work that Sydney Metro has undertaken in the planning phase has significantly raised the ability of the contractor to achieve good outcomes.

IN NUMBERS

  • 100: The final verified score of this project. This is the highest score achieved for an IS Rating to date.
  • 47,987: amount of GHG emissions reduced (tCO2e) compared to the base case footprint
  • 33%: the reduction of TSE Project’s materials footprint compared to the base case footprint

Case Study | Northlink WA Southern Section

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2019 Infrastructure Sustainability Awards Case Study
Northlink WA Southern Section 

An initiative of Mainroads WA, NorthLink WA provides a non-stop transport route between Morley and Muchea in Western Australia. It is made up of the Southern, Central and Northern Sections, each providing its own set of unique stakeholder benefits. The contractor delivering the project was John Holland Group.

Sustainability was embedded in the project and innovation was demonstrated across several areas. Innovations that were ‘Australia firsts’ include the use of life cycle assessment by a contractor in decision-making during detailed design, a tightened asphalt specification to improve water resistance and durability to increase Pavement Design Life, and a High modulus asphalt (EME2) trial on a 700 m section of the highway (the heaviest traffic loading section of a highway in Australia).

Sustainability initiatives have resulted in cost benefits, both in construction and operational stages over the life of the project.

“NorthLink WA’s Leading score of 95 points is the highest WA score ever and the second highest ISCA rating score in Australia for a transport infrastructure project.” 

IN NUMBERS 

  • 21%: the decrease in materials lifecycle impacts
  • 40%: the reduction in water use in construction and operation through a reduced delivery period and by designing out reticulated areas from the landscaping design
  • 9%: the reduction in energy use due to light-dimming and adaptive highway lighting