Roads
For more than 100 years Downer has been designing, building and maintaining essential transport infrastructure. Now, our transport team has expanded its operations and projects into the United Kingdom and Asia as we continue to collaborate with global clients to deliver and manage critical infrastructure solutions to meet their strategic and functional goals.
Our experience covers public and private road assets, forestry road networks, access to recreational areas and geotechnical and tunnelling engineering. We provide services for the complete asset lifecycle and have established our reputation by utilising our network of highly skilled consultants, planners and technical staff.
Our expertise is strengthened by continuously building and investing in our equipment and workforce to ensure we can offer our clients the most innovative and cost-efficient road solutions in the market. The team’s approach to business ensures resources are managed through a single project team, with clearly defined, fully accountable, management structures, that provide our clients with the benefits of seamless project delivery.
Project management is a core capability which enables us to operate effectively under a variety of client engagement models and at the centre of these capabilities are effective systems, supported by targeted training, that capture cost, monitor resource usage and ensure the quality of the work we deliver meets required standards.
Our key capabilities include:
Design & Consulting
- Assessment of effects of underground construction works to adjacent structures
- Architecture, urban design and landscaping
- Bridges and tunnels
- Development planning
- External asset management consulting
- Environmental engineering and assessments
- Feasibility analysis
- Geometric design
- Integrated transport modelling
- Low carbon solutions
- Energy management and benchmarking
- Warm asphalt technology
- Recycling of pavement materials
- Optimising use of local materials
- Waste management
- Fuel-efficiency programmes
- Master planning
- Network, structural and amenity design
- Network and infrastructure planning
- Pavement and surfacing design
- Pavement, temporary works, bridge and structure design
- Prediction of ground deformations
- Project concept and feasibility studies
- Research and development
- Road design
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management design and implementation
- Transport analysis and modelling
- Value engineering consultation
- Network of NATA accredited laboratories
- Bitumen-surfacing materials
- Pavement materials
Project Management
- Continuous improvement and opportunity-for-improvement frameworks
- Construction management
- Cost control and change management
- Earned-value management (planned value, earned value and actual cost)
- Effective, integrated systems
- Feasibility studies
- Health, safety and environmental management
- In-house technical expertise
- Key performance and result measurement
- Monitoring of resource usage and cost management
- Project scheduling and control
- Process and risk management (including hazard identification)
- Programme preparation and management (phasing of site works)
- Quality assurance management
- Qualified personnel, talent management and succession planning
- Quality management
- Resource and supply chain partner management
- Site behaviour observations
- Stakeholder and community engagement
- Strategy and planning
- Supply chain vetting, induction and monitoring
- Sustainable business practice
- Relationship management and collaboration with both client and consultants
- Risk management
- Targeted training
- Third party, utility co-ordination and management
- Transparent reporting and financial management
- business excellence model
Procurement
- Alliancing
- Asphalt manufacture
- Bulk bitumen supply
- Cost plus
- Design and build
- Early contractor involvement
- Emulsion manufacture and supply
- Framework contracts
- Joint venture
- Lump sum
- Measure and value
- Modified binders and blended products
- New engineering contract
- Performance measurement
- Specialised procurement functions
- Strong relationships with many suppliers and specialist sub-contractors
- Type of contracts
Construction
- Bridges and structures
- Capital works
- Concrete kerbing
- Earthworks/ stormwater and drainage
- Earthworks and drainage
- Insitu stabilisation
- Foundations
- Ground improvement
- Landscaping and finishing works
- Micro-tunnelling
- New pavement construction
- Pavements and surfacing
- Permanent earth-retaining structures
- Road realignment
- Streetscape
- pavements,
- kerb and channel
- street furniture and features
- Slope stabilisation
- Structures – bridges, retaining walls and underpasses
- Temporary retaining structures and support systems for deep excavation
- Underground services
Specialist Services
- Turf specialists
- Insitu stabilisation
- Integrated traffic solutions
- traffic management planning and control
- traffic management modelling
- professional services
- specialist surfacing
- line marking
- traffic lighting
- traffic signalling
- Line marking
- Pressure injection stabilisation
- Open space management
- Traffic management systems
- Tunnel lining for bored tunnels and pipe-jacking works
Operations Maintenance
- Asphalt paving
- Corridor and amenities activities
- Drainage maintenance
- Emergency response and repairs
- Insitu stabilisation
- Local authority road maintenance
- Open space management
- Pavement profiling
- Preventative maintenance
- Public enquiry management
- Reactive maintenance
- Road rehabilitation and AWPT’s
- Road resurfacing (chip seal and asphaltic concrete)
- Routine and periodic pavement activities
- Scheduled, routine, and cyclic maintenance
- Slurry surfacing/micro surfacing
- Specialist patching and repairs
- Spray sealing – bitumen and emulsions
- State highways maintenance
- Structures maintenance
- Surfacing rejuvenation
- Vegetation control
- ground maintenance
- sports field maintenance
- parks and reserves
Asset Management
- Asset condition and performance assessment monitoring
- Asset data collection and analysis
- Asset management systems
- Condition rating
- Data capture and analysis
- Forward works programming
- Maintenance cost updates
- Network behavioural modelling
- Pavement and surfacing design
- Physical works updates
- Project management
- Technical due diligence
- Traffic management design and implementation
Asset Renewal
- Pavement rehabilitation and rejuvenation
- Pavement re-texturising by diamond grinding and/or high pressure water blasting
- Surface rejuvenation