John Holland Group

The John Holland Group is an infrastructure, building, rail and transport business operating in Australia and New Zealand. Headquartered in Melbourne, it is a subsidiary of China Communications Construction.

History

The company was founded in 1949 by John Holland.[1] In 1991 the business was purchased by Janet Holmes à Court's Heytesbury Pty Ltd. In 2000, Leighton Holdings bought a 70% stake in the company, this was increased to 99% in 2004 and 100% in December 2007.[2] In December 2002, the construction assets of Transfield Holdings were acquired.[3][4]

In November 2012, John Holland Tunnelling was awarded the International Tunnelling Contractor of the Year, for the Northern Sewerage Project in Melbourne.[5]

In December 2014, Leighton Holdings agreed terms with China Communications Construction to sell John Holland.[6][7][8] The transaction was completed in April 2015 after the federal government approved the sale.[9]

Major projects

Major projects include: • Picnic Bay Jetty, Queensland, completed in 1959[10]

• Captain Cook Bridge, Sydney, completed in 1965[11]

• Roseville Bridge, Sydney, completed in 1966[12]

• Second Como railway bridge, Sydney, completed in 1972[13]

• William Walter Mason Bridge, Queensland, completed in 1977[14]

• West Gate Bridge, Melbourne, completed in 1978[15]

• Splityard Creek Dam, Queensland, completed in 1980[16]

• AIS Arena, Canberra, completed in 1981[17]

• Sydney Entertainment Centre, completed in 1983[18]

• Parliament House, Canberra, completed in 1988[19]

• Newman to Port Hedland section of the Great Northern Highway, completed in 1990[20]

• Borallon Correctional Centre, Queensland, completed in 1990[21]

• Joondalup Health Campus, Perth, completed in 1998[22]

• Goodwill Bridge, Brisbane, completed in 2001[23]

• Alice Springs to Darwin railway line, completed in 2004[24]

• Eleanor Schonell Bridge, Brisbane, completed in 2006[25]

• Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor, Sydney, completed in 2006[26]

• Lane Cove Tunnel, Sydney, completed in 2007[27]

• Mandurah railway line, Western Australia, completed in 2007[28]

• EastLink, Melbourne, completed in 2008[29]

• Airport Flyover, Brisbane, completed in 2011[30]

• Windsor to Kedron section of the Northern Busway, Brisbane, completed in 2012[31]

• Airport Link, Brisbane, completed in 2012[32]

• South Road Superway, Adelaide, completed in 2014[33]

• Lilyfield to Dulwich Hill section of the Inner West Light Rail, Sydney, completed in 2014[34]

• Stage 2 of the South West Rail Link, Sydney, completed in 2015[35]

• City to Maribyrnong River, Regional Rail Link, Melbourne, completed in 2015[36]

• South Island line, Hong Kong, completed in 2016[37]

• Ravenhall Correctional Centre, Victoria, completed in 2017[38]

• Sydney Metro Northwest, Sydney, completed in 2019[39]

• M4 East, Sydney, completed in 2019[40]

• Canberra Metro, completed in 2019[41]

• Calvary Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, completed in 2020[42]

• Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, completed in 2022[43]

• Sydney Metro City & Southwest, Sydney, completed in 2024[44]

• Metro Tunnel, Melbourne, completed in 2025[45]

• Sunbury railway line upgrade, Melbourne, completed in 2023[46]

• West Gate Tunnel, Melbourne, completed in 2025[47]

Transport

As part of the consortium selected to build the Alice Springs to Darwin railway line, John Holland took a 7.5% shareholding in the Asia Pacific Transport Consortium in 2000.[48] John Holland has interests in Metro Trains Melbourne and Metro Trains Sydney that operate the Melbourne suburban train network and Sydney Metro respectively.[49][50]

In January 2012, John Holland commenced the operation and maintenance of the New South Wales Regional Network under a ten-year contract with Transport for NSW, comprising 2,400 route kilometres of operational passenger and freight rail lines and 3,100 route kilometres of non-operational lines.[51][52] This ceased at the end of 2021 with the contract passing to UGL Rail.[53]

In April 2019, John Holland commenced the operation and maintenance of the Canberra Light Rail through its Canberra Metro Operations joint venture.[54][55]

In July 2020, John Holland became responsible for maintenance of the Glenelg tram line in Adelaide as part of the Torrens Connect consortium.[56][57]

In April 2022, Transdev John Holland (25% owned by John Holland) commenced operating Sydney Bus Region 9 in the Eastern Suburbs under contract to Transport for NSW.[58][59] In December 2024, another Transdev–John Holland joint venture, Yarra Journey Makers (49% owned by John Holland), took over the operation of Yarra Trams in Melbourne.[60]

External links

• Company website