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24 May 2013
Abigroup has been awarded a 5-Star Green Star – Office Interiors Certified Rating by The Green Building Council of Australia for its office at 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
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23 May 2013
Graduate Engineer Daniel Hamilton has been acknowledged for outstanding academic performance by the University of Wollongong.
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14 February 2013
Abigorup has recently commenced work on the new Academic and Research Facility at the Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH), after securing the project in December last year.
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05 February 2013
Abigroup has been awarded a $31 million contract to construct an additional northbound lane on
the Mitchell Freeway between the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel and Hutton Street for Main
Roads WA.
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23 January 2013
The opening of Peninsula Link freeway in Victoria on Friday 18 January 2013 is the first significant Australian infrastructure milestone in 2013.
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21 November 2012
Despite having to contend with the heaviest rainfall in years, the through lanes of the new highway between Federal and Traveston were opened on Wednesday 26 September.
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14 November 2012
Abigroup has announced it has secured two major contracts with Rio Tinto for works on the company’s Rail Capacity Enhancement Project near Karratha in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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08 November 2012
Abigroup will now commence construction on a new building for Griffith Business School on the Gold Coast.
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04 October 2012
Pacific National's flagship train maintenance facility at Nebo was officially opened on August 30 by Isaac Regional Council Mayor Anne Baker, Asciano CEO and Managing Director John Mullen, Pacific National Coal Director Dave Irwin and Pacific National Coal Queensland General Manager Operations Geoff Featherstone.
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31 August 2012
On 28 August over fifty geography students from Kurri Kurri High School were escorted by Abigroup staff on the Hunter Expressway project as part of a unique learning opportunity.
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21 August 2012
National contractor Abigroup commenced paving on the western section of the Hunter Expressway. Earlier this month, Federal Member for the Hunter, The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, visited the site to inspect progress on the first section of paving works.
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20 August 2012
On Thursday 28 June a new flagship solar energy facility was opened in Bridgwater Victoria.
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17 August 2012
Western Australia's Department of Indigenous Affairs Acting Executive Director for Land, Ms Susan Murphy, today launched the Kwadjet Koorl project, an initiative being delivered by Abigroup in partnership with the David Wirrpanda Foundation, RMS, Ochre Personnel and GLH, aimed at providing training and employment prospects to Indigenous Australians.
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15 August 2012
National contractor Abigroup has officially commenced work on the much-anticipated M5 West Widening.
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26 June 2012
Abigroup has secured a $315 million contract to design and construct a major upgrade to Sydney’s M5 South West Motorway, providing a new lane in each direction along a 21km section of the motorway.
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22 June 2012
Abigroup has been awarded a $76 million contract from QR National to undertake the civil works for a 13km balloon rail loop for the new Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal at the Port of Gladstone in Queensland.
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28 May 2012
Following the success of International Women’s Day at Abigroup in March, we are featuring the stories of just a few of the women at Abigroup who are creating a career for themselves in the engineering and construction industry.
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10 May 2012
Abigroup has been awarded a $40 million project by the Hunter Water Corporation to build a new water recycling plant as part of the Hunter Treatment Alliance program of works.
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04 May 2012
Abigroup has secured a $210 million contract to carry out bulk earthworks at the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) Caval Ridge Mine in central Queensland.
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01 May 2012
Abigroup has started work on the construction of new water treatment plants in Bowen and Proserpine in North Queensland for Whitsunday Regional Council.
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30 April 2012
Abigroup Limited has appointed General Counsel Kate Perumal to its board.
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27 April 2012
Following the success of International Women’s Day at Abigroup in March, we are featuring the stories of just a few of the women at Abigroup who are creating a career for themselves in the engineering and construction industry.
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24 April 2012
Abigroup Water has been awarded a new scope of works by Sydney Water for a wastewater treatment plant in Sydney’s south as part of the ongoing Odour Management Program (OMP) Alliance of works.
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11 April 2012
Abigroup has been awarded Contractor of the Year at the prestigious International Erosion Control Association’s (IECA) annual awards event held in Las Vegas.
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02 April 2012
Abigroup has been awarded a multi-million dollar slice of the design and construct contract for the Hurstbridge Line Upgrade, a $60.8 million project funded by the Victorian Government.
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02 April 2012
Abigroup celebrated International Women’s Day on 8 March with a series of events held at the company’s offices and sites around Australia.
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27 March 2012
Abigroup’s Hunter Expressway project team donated $2000 to the Hunter Women’s Centre (HWC) on Tuesday (20 March) to help support the Centre’s Casework Service which includes counseling, group work, information, referrals and casework.
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20 March 2012
Elena Potenza, Business Development Manager at Abigroup, has been appointed to the NSW Council for Women’s Economic Opportunity, an expert advisory council to the NSW Government.
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15 March 2012
Abigroup’s inaugural National Diversity Forum was held in Sydney on 23 and 24 February.
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13 March 2012
Abigroup celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March with a series of events held at the company’s offices and sites around Australia.
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15 February 2012
Abigroup has been appointed preferred tenderer by Whitsunday Regional Council to construct new water treatment plants in Bowen and Proserpine in North Queensland.
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09 February 2012
The Abigroup team on the Peninsula Link project reached an important milestone with the first of the local road works completed and opened to traffic on 24 January 2012.
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07 February 2012
Abigroup is planning to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March with a series of events held at the company’s offices and sites around Australia.
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07 February 2012
During a 72-hour possession over the Australia Day weekend our Lawson Alliance team successfully completed, commissioned and handed over a new 600 metre section of the Main Western Railway. The Alliance’s scope in the rail corridor during this possession included trackwork, overhead wiring and signalling.
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09 January 2012
Abigroup has finished a $116 million contract to design and construct the seawall bund and haul road for the Port of Gladstone Western Basin expansion in Queensland.
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20 December 2011
The Hunter Expressway – Kurri Kurri to Branxton project team has presented $153,339 to Movember on behalf of Abigroup and on 15 December 2011 received the Abigroup Perpetual Movember trophy after winning Abigroup’s 2011 Movember fundraising competition.
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19 December 2011
Abigroup has started major work on the $14.3 million refurbishment of Queensland Museum at Brisbane’s South Bank Cultural Centre.
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22 November 2011
Abigroup has completed a new bridge overpass for Main Roads WA in the northern metropolitan suburbs of Perth, eliminating a major accident black-spot.
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10 November 2011
An Abigroup joint venture has been selected by the South Australian Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure to be the preferred contractor for the design and construction of the Southern Expressway Duplication project in Adelaide.
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10 November 2011
Abigroup, as part of the Hume Highway Woomargama Alliance (HHWA), has opened the Woomargama Bypass in southern NSW to traffic, improving both travel times and safety on the Sydney to Melbourne route.
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04 November 2011
Abigroup has published its second Sustainability Report looking at the company’s performance over the 2010 calendar year.
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17 October 2011
Abigroup has secured a framework agreement with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in respect of rail formation work in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.
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17 October 2011
The $110 million Douglas Arterial Duplication (DAD) project involves the construction of 5.7km of two lane road to relieve traffic congestion on a section of the Bruce Highway through Townsville in North Queensland.
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12 October 2011
Abigroup has reached agreement with Queensland Health on a contract sum of $317 million for the redevelopment of Cairns Base Hospital.
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05 October 2011
An Abigroup Joint Venture has secured a $290 million project to build part of a new coal export terminal to increase the amount of coal exported through the Port of Gladstone in Queensland
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26 September 2011
Abigroup has won the design and construct contract to build a $45 million, eight storey car park at Sydney’s International Airport Terminal.
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13 September 2011
Abigroup has started work on a $42.5 million contract to duplicate an existing 34.5km section of rail embankment as part of the Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) Iron Ore Expansion project near Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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12 September 2011
Abigroup has won an $80 million contract to design and build a coal train support facility for Pacific National on a 49 hectare site at Greta in the Hunter Valley.
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25 August 2011
Abigroup will work closely with the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW (RTA) and WorkCover NSW to improve safety outcomes as part of an alliance agreement for the construction of the Hunter Expressway, Kurri Kurri to Branxton.
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22 August 2011
The Abigroup team delivering the new $30 million Reid Highway-Mirrabooka Avenue interchange in Western Australia recently completed a major milestone on the project erecting the bridge beams for the overpass.
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17 August 2011
Abigroup has won a national Defence contract to prepare RAAF airbases around Australia to receive the air force’s next generation of fighter jets.
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15 August 2011
Abigroup has won a $65 million contract to design and construct a new premium railway station and associated infrastructure works for the Victorian State Government’s Department of Transport at Williams Landing on the outskirts of Melbourne.
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04 August 2011
Abigroup as part of the AdelaideAqua D&C Consortium confirmed that the Lonsdale based Adelaide Desalination Plant produced the first desalinated water from the plant on Sunday 31 July.
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28 July 2011
Abigroup has been appointed by Main Roads Western Australia to be the Integrated Service Provider (ISP) for the road network of the Goldfields-Esperance region which covers an area of approximately 930,100 square kilometres and has around 2200 km of arterial roads.
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25 July 2011
Abigroup has started construction on what will become Australia’s longest operating road bridge close to Kempsey in northern NSW.
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12 July 2011
An Abigroup led joint venture has secured an $83 million contract with Rio Tinto Iron Ore for work in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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12 July 2011
Abigroup has celebrated the safe flooding of the intake tunnel with seawater at the $1.83 billion Adelaide Desalination Project, connecting the ocean and land for the first time.
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08 July 2011
The Victorian Government’s Hon. Terry Mulder, Minister for Public Transport & Minister for Roads formally opens Abigroup’s new Southern Region Head Office at 476 St Kilda Road Melbourne.
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10 June 2011
Lend Lease today announced that it has secured a A$106 million contract to upgrade Section B
of the Bruce Highway between Cooroy and Curra in Queensland.
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06 June 2011
Lend Lease today announced that Abigroup, which Lend Lease acquired as part of the Valemus transaction in March 2011, has reached agreement with Queensland Health as Managing Contractor on Stage 2 of the A$1.4 billion Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) in Brisbane. The contract value to Abigroup is circa A$900 million
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31 May 2011
Lend Lease today announced that Abigroup, as part of the Pacific National Infrastructure Alliance, has secured a contract for the design, pricing, delivery and commissioning of the first Pacific National coal rolling stock maintenance facility in Queensland near Nebo.
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25 May 2011
Lend Lease held its annual investor day today and noted the integration of Valemus, delivery of its significant development pipeline and continued recycling of capital will underpin the Group's growth over the coming years.
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24 May 2011
The Village Balgowlah project has won a major national award from the Property Council of Australia.
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13 May 2011
Abigroup has been named preferred contractor by Townsville City Council to project manage an estimated $50 million of work to rebuild Townsville’s roads damaged in some of the worst natural disasters in recent history.
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10 May 2011
The Hume Highway Woomargama Alliance (HHWA) has achieved two significant environmental milestones through the generation of power for its Site Compound Facility and onsite Laboratory, initially through the use of a 100 per cent biodiesel mobile power station and most recently, the recognition of the biodiesel power station by the Office of Renewable Energy and Regulation (ORER).
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10 May 2011
Abigroup’s Southern Region office moved to 476 St Kilda Road in Melbourne on Monday 9 May.
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06 May 2011
The Lumina Award is a program designed to recognise the innovative practices that Southern Region staff use in their everyday roles. While innovation is used daily, it is not often recognised as innovation - it is simply thought of as ‘doing their job’.
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06 May 2011
Abigroup has helped with the recovery effort following Cyclone Yasi in North Queensland by providing three vehicles to the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation.
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04 May 2011
At the start of 2011 Abigroup invited the local Nagambie and St Joseph’s primary schools to the Nagambie Bypass site to learn about environmental management and to see for themselves how D11 bulldozers and scrapers are used in road building
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04 May 2011
Peninsula Link is a toll free, 27 kilometre freeway connection between EastLink at Carrum Downs and the Mornington Peninsula Freeway at Mount Martha, Victoria. The $759 million project will bring many benefits to people living, working and visiting Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula, a major tourist destination in Victoria.
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02 May 2011
The Hume Highway Woomargama Alliance (HHWA) was recently awarded the 2010 International Erosion Control Association (IECA) award for Environment Achievement at the Environmental Connection (EC11) Conference in Florida, USA.
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28 April 2011
The Southern Region Graduate Development Program (SRGDP) is a two year program and currently has 13 engineering graduates and 20 building graduates (18 in Victoria and 2 in South Australia) at various stages of their studies. Abigroup also supports 6 engineering IBL students, 8 apprentices and 4 trainees.
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21 April 2011
Abigroup has begun major construction work on the western section of the Hunter Expressway.
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13 April 2011
Leading engineering and construction company Abigroup is celebrated a major milestone today as the company turned 50.
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12 April 2011
The NSW Government’s Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian formally opened Abigroup’s new Head Office on Sydney’s North Shore last week as the company prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
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04 April 2011
Abigroup Water has secured a contract to upgrade Sydney Water’s wastewater treatment plants as part of the Sydney Odour Management Program in Sydney and the Illawarra. The first stage will involve an $80 million upgrade to the Malabar, Cronulla and North Head wastewater treatment plants.
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04 April 2011
Abigroup’s Central Region, which covers NSW and ACT, has expanded its Graduate Development Program with a three day induction course which saw graduates visit a number of Abigroup project sites.
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23 March 2011
Abigroup is one of Australia’s leading and most diverse national contractors and over the years there has been a set of core drivers carrying Abigroup forward. Managing Director David Jurd shares with us what he views as the foundations of the company’s success.
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23 March 2011
Queensland’s $2.12 billion Gateway Upgrade Project has won Australia’s prestigious ‘Project of the Year’ at the 2011 Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) awards.
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17 March 2011
Caterpillar has presented Abigroup with an award to celebrate the company becoming the first in Australia to achieve Five Star Contamination Control (CC) accreditation.
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10 March 2011
Lend Lease today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Valemus Australia (Valemus), the parent company of Abigroup, Baulderstone and Connneq from Bilfinger Berger SE.
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09 March 2011
More than 250 budding young rugby union stars from all over Australia descended on the northern NSW regional town of Armidale recently for the annual Abigroup National Rugby Camp.
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28 February 2011
Federal Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon visited the western section of the Hunter Expressway last Friday, 25 February, to inspect early works by Abigroup.
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25 February 2011
Abigroup has secured a major contract with Northbank Enterprise Hub Pty Ltd to build a $100 million plus purpose built facility for WesTrac, over a 23 hectare site located at Tomago (Newcastle).
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21 February 2011
Abigroup, in joint venture with indigenous contractor Geraldton Line Haul (GLH), has been awarded a $65 million contract by Rio Tinto for works on its Cape Lambert Port B Project, near Karratha in Western Australia.
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15 February 2011
Hundreds of children in the greater metropolitan Melbourne area have started the new school year in brand new schools designed and built by Abigroup, as part of the Axiom Education Victoria consortium.
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10 February 2011
Abigroup foremen can be forgiven if they think they’re seeing double with a pair of identical twins working on the Peninsula Link job.
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31 January 2011
At the end of 2010 Abigroup sponsored the Grand Challenge finals of the National Science and Engineering Challenge which saw more than 22,000 year 9 and 10 students from 600 schools around the country compete during the year across a number of science and mathematics based challenges.
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17 January 2011
Abigroup is supporting the Queensland Government’s Flood Relief Appeal with an initial donation of $50,000 and then by matching dollar for dollar, all employee donations.
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14 January 2011
Abigroup raised $90,085 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue: the national depression awareness initiative in the company’s first ever national Movember competition
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14 January 2011
An Abigroup joint venture has been named as one of the consortiums in the short-list of potential builders to construct the passenger rail line between Deer Park and West Werribee, a component of the $4.3 billion Regional Rail Link in Victoria
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12 January 2011
As part of its involvement in the Building the Education Revolution (BER) schools program, Abigroup recently sponsored the inaugural Sydney Region Number Crunchers Grand Final at the Powerhouse Museum.
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14 December 2010
In early December, 20 leading hands and foremen from the Hume Highway Woomargama Alliance (HHWA) completed a specialised training program delivered by the Abigroup Registered Training Organisation (RTO).
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08 December 2010
The Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Helicopter made a landing at the Enlarged Cotter Dam project on 19 November to pick up a donation of $25,000 from the Bulk Water Alliance, the team delivering Canberra’s new dam, and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU).
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07 December 2010
Abigroup and beyondblue: the national depression initiative have launched a DVD to tackle depression and anxiety in the construction industry and encourage industry workers to seek help early.
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03 December 2010
Abigroup Contractors has won the prestigious national building award from the Master Builders Association (MBA) for the Mater Hospital Newcastle Redevelopment project (PPP) in Newcastle.
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01 December 2010
The faces of three Australian World War I Victoria Cross winners are featured on the outside wall of a completed Building the Education Revolution project at Matraville Soldiers’ Settlement Public School in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
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16 November 2010
Abigroup, as part of the Lawson Alliance, has completed work on the first section of the $160 million Great Western Highway Upgrade project at Lawson in NSW.
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16 November 2010
Abigroup, as part of consortium Axiom Education, is building 11 state of the art schools in Victoria under a Public Private Partnership model
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16 November 2010
After Victorian Roads and Ports Minister Tim Pallas turned the first sod in April, the Nagambie Bypass team was plagued by months of inclement weather, which required significant scaling back of works.
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29 October 2010
Abigroup and the RTA signed the contract for design and construction of the western section of the Hunter Expressway at a ceremony in the RTA's North Sydney office on Friday 29 October.
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27 October 2010
Abigroup's Plant and Operations Facility in Yatala, Queensland, has been officially named the Bill Pusell Plant and Operations Facility in honour of Bill Pusell, who recently celebrated 50 years with the company.
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21 October 2010
Abigroup’s Southern Region, which covers Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, was a major sponsor of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Awards (VIC) which were held on Friday 8 October.
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20 October 2010
Abigroup has finished work on the $26 million Australian Marine Complex Service and Supply Base in WA.
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13 October 2010
Abigroup Water has commenced work for Barwon Water on the largest water infrastructure project in Geelong’s history
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12 October 2010
Abigroup’s Amy Weule has won the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Queensland Crystal Vision Award in the Contribution in Building and Construction Trades category.
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08 October 2010
Abigroup has been selected as the preferred managing contractor on a major project to redevelop Cairns Base Hospital in Queensland.
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08 October 2010
Abigroup’s Graduate Development Program plays a vital role in ensuring that the company continues to attract the best and the brightest into the company.
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01 October 2010
Barwon Water has named Abigroup Water the preferred contractor for the $138 million Melbourne Geelong Pipeline project.
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30 September 2010
Abigroup held a major conference on Wednesday 29 September to look at ways of improving the number of women taking up and remaining in engineering and construction careers.
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28 September 2010
Two Abigroup projects have introduced valuable environmental initiatives which have been recognised under the company’s Golden Boot program.
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27 September 2010
Abigroup has published its first Sustainability Report looking at the company’s performance over the 2009 calendar year.
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24 September 2010
Abigroup, as part of the Hume Highway Southern Alliance (HHSA), has been Highly Commended for the Southern Hume Highway Duplication: Woomargama to Table Top project
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17 September 2010
Abigroup has been announced as the recommended tenderer by the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW (RTA) for the design and construction of the western section of the Hunter Expressway.
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16 September 2010
Surfing legend Layne Beachley visited Abigroup’s Brisbane head office after touring the company’s Queensland Children’s Hospital project on Friday 3 September.
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16 September 2010
Wednesday 15 September marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and a series of celebrations were held around the city.
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15 September 2010
The Northern Busway Alliance has won the Excellence in Environmental Sustainability Award at the Queensland Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Association (CILTA) awards ceremony.
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19 August 2010
Abigroup is expanding its specialist national businesses into two new growth sectors: energy and rail.
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17 August 2010
Australian Precast Solutions’ precast facility in Macksville in northern NSW has produced two monster bridge beams for a major motorway upgrade in Queensland.
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16 August 2010
Abigroup has moved its national and NSW/ACT headquarters from Gordon to Chatswood on Sydney's North Shore.
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12 August 2010
Abigroup picked up the Champion Employer of the Year Special Commendation award at the National Employment Services Association (NESA) Awards for Excellence ceremony which was held in Sydney recently.
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30 July 2010
Abigroup has picked up no less than seven building awards in as many weeks.
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29 July 2010
Abigroup has completed a $5 million contract from V/Line to restore the historic Maryborough railway station in Victoria back to operational status and to construct a new platform at Creswick railway station.
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23 July 2010
Abigroup Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Grewar as General Manager of its national mining business, Abigroup Mining Services.
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20 July 2010
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19 July 2010
The team that delivered the Camberwell Civic Precinct Renewal – Stage 1 project has won a Professional Excellence Award from the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) Victorian division.
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02 July 2010
Leading national construction and engineering contractor Abigroup formally opened its new Hunter region office in Beresfield today (Friday 2 July).
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01 July 2010
Thursday 24 June 2010, will go down as an historic day in Australian politics with the appointment of Australia’s first female Prime Minister.
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25 June 2010
Leading national construction and engineering contractor Abigroup is sponsoring a major rugby league tournament in Gympie on Saturday 26 June to celebrate 100 years of league in the region.
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11 June 2010
Over 120 guests including civic and business leaders celebrated the opening of Abigroup North Queensland’s new corporate offices in the heart of Townsville’s transforming CBD on 3 June.
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02 June 2010
A ground-breaking ceremony for the Reid Highway, Alexander Drive Interchange project in Perth took place on Sunday 23 May when the first sod was turned by WA State Transport Minister Simon O'Brien and Federal Foreign Affairs Minister and local MP Stephen Smith.
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28 May 2010
The new Gateway Bridge opened to traffic on Monday 24 May, six months ahead of schedule.
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27 May 2010
Abigroup in a joint venture with Seymour Whyte has been appointed to carry out the construction component of the $110 million duplication of the Douglas Arterial which forms part of the Townsville Ring Road in North Queensland.
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21 May 2010
Through making a couple of enquiries and suggestions an Abigroup employee has inspired Dulux Australia to undertake a national recycling initiative.
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13 May 2010
Following a competitive design and construct procurement process by Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads aimed at identifying the best value for money proposition, Abigroup has been appointed to straighten and upgrade the Bruce Highway over the Cardwell Range in North Queensland.
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03 May 2010
Brisbane’s second Gateway Bridge is due to open six months ahead of schedule on 24 May.
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30 April 2010
Abigroup’s National Road Manager Arvo Tinni has been awarded the prestigious John Shaw Medal for 2010. He was presented with the Medal at a Gala Dinner at the Roads Australia Annual Summit in Sydney.
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29 April 2010
Work is going well on construction projects at 161 of the Sydney schools that Abigroup is responsible for as part of the Federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) program with a 100 per cent safety record.
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21 April 2010
Abigroup has been awarded a $5m contract from V/Line to restore the historic Maryborough railway station in Victoria back to operational status and to construct a new platform at Creswick railway station.
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13 April 2010
The Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture (LAJV) has been awarded a $240million contract to deliver additional upgrade works on the Gateway Motorway from Mt Gravatt-Capalaba Road to Miles Platting Road.
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09 April 2010
A cross-section of 25 women, largely from Abigroup's NSW site-based operations, travelled to the ACT recently to tour Bulk Water Alliance (BWA) projects and to network as part of the women@abigroup initiative.
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08 April 2010
The Hume Highway Woomargama Alliance (HHWA) recently played host to Senator Michael Forshaw who was given a tour of the preliminary works currently underway on the nine kilometre Woomargama bypass project in southern NSW.
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18 March 2010
Abigroup has been awarded the contract for construction of an overpass at one of West Australia’s most notorious accident black spots at the intersection of the Reid Highway and Alexander Drive in Perth by Main Roads Western Australia.
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16 March 2010
Leading national construction and engineering contractor Abigroup is to play a significant role in Townsville’s re-emerging central business district.
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11 March 2010
The Banora Point Upgrade Alliance has won an environmental management award from Abigroup
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10 March 2010
Abigroup has a new General Manager Rail.
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04 March 2010
Mobile heavy machinery simulators that use world first technology have a new home in Queensland with the opening of a $6 million multi-purpose construction training facility by Queensland Premier, the Honourable Anna Bligh on 4 March.
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03 March 2010
Abigroup will be celebrating International Women’s Day on Monday 8 March with a free BBQ for all Head Office staff on the roof of the company’s Gordon headquarters.
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26 February 2010
Abigroup has been appointed by VicRoads to deliver the $108 million Nagambie Bypass in Victoria.
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18 February 2010
Abigroup will start work on Victoria’s Peninsula Link project just over a month after the Government announcement appointing the Southern Way consortium, which was sponsored by Abigroup and the Royal Bank of Scotland, to build the new road and operate it for a period of 25 years.
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16 February 2010
Abigroup has joined forces with leading depression awareness organisation beyondblue to launch a major initiative to raise awareness of depression in the construction industry.
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16 February 2010
Abigroup has joined forces with health promotion charity Red Dust Role Models to help improve the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged youth in remote indigenous communities.
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12 February 2010
Abigroup has been appointed to deliver the civil balance of plant component including roadworks and wind turbine foundation structures for the Oaklands Hill Wind Farm near Glenthompson in Western Victoria.
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01 February 2010
Abigroup, as part of the Axiom Education Victoria consortium, has built five new schools across the greater metropolitan Melbourne area.
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25 January 2010
Abigroup, as part of the Monash Alliance, has completed the $204 million upgrade of the Monash Freeway in Melbourne for VicRoads ahead of schedule, under budget and with an unblemished safety record.
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20 January 2010
Abigroup has a new National Safety Manager
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15 January 2010
Abigroup, as part of the Southern Way consortium with Bilfinger Berger and the Royal Bank of Scotland, has been appointed to design and construct the new $759m Peninsula Link.
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22 December 2009
Abigroup Managing Director David Jurd has confirmed that the company will move its national head office from its long standing Gordon base to Chatswood in mid-2010.
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22 December 2009
Abigroup, as part of the Banora Point Upgrade Alliance, has begun work on one of the most challenging and busiest sections of the Pacific Highway at Banora Point in NSW, close to the Queensland border.
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09 December 2009
The Karuah to Bulahdelah (K2B) Pacific Highway Upgrade project has been listed as one of the finalists for the prestigious 2010 Australian Construction Achievement Awards.
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07 December 2009
Abigroup has completed its first project for Main Roads Western Australia two and a half months ahead of schedule and using an innovative construction method never before used in WA.
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07 December 2009
Abigroup Telecommunications has secured a contract with vividwireless to construct components of Perth’s new 4G wireless network.
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27 November 2009
Abigroup as part of the PacificLink Alliance has won a prestigious Australian Engineering Excellence Award for creating the Tugun Bypass in Queensland.
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13 November 2009
On Saturday 31 October Abigroup won the Master Builders Association (MBA) Award for Public Buildings $25,000,001 and over for the Company's delivery of the Sydney International Airport multi-story car park project completed in the second half of 2008.
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13 November 2009
Abigroup picked up three Awards at the 2009 Master Builders Association National Excellence in Building and Construction Awards function held at Conrad Jupiter's on the Gold Coast on Saturday 7 November.
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11 November 2009
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05 November 2009
On Monday 26 October Abigroup announced the winners of our Regional Engineering/Surveying Scholarship Programme in Western Australia at Geraldton Senior College's valedictory ceremony.
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05 November 2009
On Monday 26 October Abigroup announced the winners of our Regional Engineering/Surveying Scholarship Programme in Western Australia at Geraldton Senior College's valedictory ceremony.
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29 October 2009
Abigroup secured $3.2 billion of new work in the first nine months of 2009 despite the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the company's volume for this calendar year will again hit the two billion dollar mark.
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15 October 2009
San Francisco - Oracle Open World 2009. Oracle has recognised Abigroup's continuous efforts towards becoming an Eco Enterprise by naming the leading contractor as one of the winners for the 2009 Enable the Eco Enterprise Awards. The award was presented today by Oracle Chairman Jeff Henley for Abigroup's implementation and use of the Ndevr Greenhouse Emissions Reporting Software
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09 October 2009
Abigroup's Wendy Dooley and Deb Gillam each won an Australian National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Crystal Vision award at a ceremony held in Brisbane on 25 September.
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30 September 2009
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education Julia Gillard joined Abigroup at Heathcote Primary School recently to turn the first sod as part of the Building the Education Revolution's, Primary Schools for the 21st Century.
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23 September 2009
Abigroup, as part of the Bulk Water Alliance (BWA), has received the client's go-ahead to build what will be one of Australia's largest dams in the ACT.
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23 September 2009
The K2B team opened a 7.5km dual carriageway section of the Pacific Highway on Friday 18 September, ahead of schedule as they continue to power towards completing the entire 23km project before the New South Wales October long weekend.
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17 September 2009
Abigroup has won a $23million marine, civil and associated works project for the construction of the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) Service and Supply Base (SSB) in Western Australia.
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10 September 2009
Despite continued economic uncertainty in many camps, major national contractor Abigroup has shown confidence in continuing its strong growth of recent years, today taking delivery of an extensive range of new equipment for its national Abigroup Mining Services business.
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02 September 2009
An exciting new joint venture formed to deliver Tasmania's telecommunications infrastructure was formally launched By Premier Bartlett today.
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27 August 2009
Abigroup is behind the construction of some of the country's most important roads. This August however, Abigroup 'hit the road' as part of the 2009 NSW Variety Bash.
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17 July 2009
Moolarben Coal has awarded Abigroup the contract to construct a new rail loop at its Moolarben Coal Project 40km north-east of Mudgee.
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29 April 2009
Abigroup is proud to have been named as one of seven successful tenderers to be appointed to the Nation Building Education team that is undertaking thousands of building projects at schools across the state through 2009 and 2010.
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22 April 2009
Abigroup with CH2MHILL will undertake an Alliance for a $240 million program of works with the Hunter Water Corporation to upgrade 13 existing wastewater treatment works and a pipeline project in the Newcastle region.
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14 November 2008
Abigroup has signalled its confidence in the growth of the Hunter Region by opening an office in Muswellbrook.
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11 November 2008
Abigroup's range of capabilities has proved a boon for the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG) and its implementation of a much needed new coal export terminal.
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14 October 2008
As a Registered Training Organisation, Abigroup is committed to the training and development of its employees and has opened a dedicated training facility in Victoria to support this commitment.