A preferred bidder has been chosen to deliver Melbourne’s first Suburban Rail Loop stations
Place Alliance – a consortium of John Holland, Kellogg Brown and Root, and Arup Australia – has been announced as the preferred consortium to build Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) stations at Glen Waverley, Burwood and Box Hill, as part of the Stations Alliance North Contract.
The consortium has significant experience delivering major infrastructure projects, including the Metro Tunnel, Sydney Metro, WestConnex and Inland Rail.
Detailed negotiations will now get underway with Place Alliance, before the Stations Alliance North Contract is expected to be awarded next year.
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The two other shortlisted bidders, Connexus and ESPA, will now compete for the second stations contract – to build the stations at Cheltenham, Clayton and Monash.
“The Suburban Rail Loop is a nation building project that will slash travel times and cut congestion for busy families – while delivering 70,000 more homes within walking distance of jobs, healthcare, and Australia’s largest universities,” SRL minister Harriet Shing says.
Construction of the SRL is creating up to 8,000 direct local jobs, with more than 3,000 people already working on the project.
The project remains on time and on budget, with crews working around the clock in preparation for the arrival of tunnel boring machines later this year, and TBMs set to launch next year.