Our projects in Australia
Below are examples of the projects we work on. Click for more information.
New South Wales / ACT
ABN AMRO (Lane Cove Tunnel Consortium)
URS is the Banks’ Engineer for the Lane Cove Tunnel Consortium. Work included the review and report on all aspects of the tender including checking that the design conformed to required standards and ...
Mayfield Groundwater Barrier Wall Project
The former BHP steelworks site in Mayfield was purchased in 2002 by the NSW Government. Regional Land Management Corporation (RLMC) was established in 2003 by the NSW Government to manage remediation ...
Victoria
Australia wide contract, Major Oil & Gas Company
Since 2002 URS has been providing site assessment and remediation services, involving the assessment of several hundred properties across Australia. The assessment comprises a number of stages, which ...
Eastlink Project, ConnectEast Consortium, Victoria
URS is the Financier’s Engineer on the Eastlink Tollway project. The Mitcham-Frankston Tollway comprises approximately 37.5 kilometres of freeway between the Eastern Freeway near Springvale Road throu...
Portland Wind Energy Project, Pacific Hydro, Yambuk and Cape Bridgewater
When completed, Pacific Hydro’s $330million Portland Wind Energy Project will be the biggest wind farm developments in the Southern Hemisphere. URS has been involved with the first two stages of four ...
Queensland
ZeroGen Clean Coal Power Project
URS is performing the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for ZeroGen. URS will complete the statement over the next 12-18 months. The overall aim of the assessment is to ensure all potential enviro...
Hinze Dam
URS, as part of the Hinze Dam Alliance with Thiess Pty Ltd. (a leading Australian construction, mining and services company) and Sinclair Knight Merz (a project delivery organization), is serving as l...
South Australia
Mining
The URS Adelaide office is expanding their mining team. Currently we have 12 members within our team who are working on a number of major mining projects around the South Australian region with some o...
North Para Dam
The North Para River Flood Control Dam is a 30 metre high, roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam at Gawler, South Australia. The dam was constructed to control flooding to the Gawler Township, with prim...
Chowilla and Mulcra Island
The Chowilla and Mulcra Island floodplains are located on the River Murray near the South Australian border. These floodplains have been negatively impacted by several years of reduced river flows, wi...
Western Australia
Yandera Copper Mine, Marengo Mining, Papua New Guinea
URS is undertaking the infrastructure Definitive Feasibility Study (“DFS”) for Marengo Mining Limited’s Yandera Copper – Molybdenum Project in Papua New Guinea. URS is responsible for the design of th...
Vale Inco Limited: Pre-feasibility Study, Indonesia
URS, in partnership with GRD Minproc, has won the infrastructure component of the Pre-feasibility (FEL 2) study for the proposed HPAL Nickel Processing Facility on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia....
Northern Territory
Darwin City Waterfront Redevelopment
URS was engaged by the Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment to provide environmental expertise to assist them in the redevelopment of the Darwin City Waterfront. The site has a long h...
GBS Gold Australia Brocks Creek Project
URS was initially commissioned by GBS Gold Australia to prepare a Mining Management Plan (MMP) for recommencing mining at Brocks Creek Project Area, as well as specific MMPs to commence mining at Risi...
McArthur River Mine
URS prepared the environmental approval documentation (EIS and PER) for the proposed expansion of Xstrata’s McArthur River Mining (MRM) operations from an underground to an Open Cut operation. The dev...
International Development
Eastern Indonesia National Roads Improvement Program
The largest roads project in AusAID history.
Working alongside the Indonesian Government, URS is helping to implement a major AusAID funded roads improvement program, part of a $1 billion package of a...
Sri Lanka–Australia Natural Resource Management Project
Rural communities in Sri Lanka are learning how to manage their natural resources more sustainably by participating in a major project managed by URS Australia. The project, which is funded by AusAID ...
Strategic level community relations and land access advice
BHP Billiton, through its subsidiaries in Indonesia, is committed to developing a number of world class coal mines in Kalimantan — collectively called BHP Billiton’s Indonesian Coal Project (ICP). Sev...
Avoided Deforestation Carbon Credits in West Papua
URS Forestry recently undertook a forest assessment and carbon modeling project in a remote area of West Papua, Indonesia for Carbon Conservation Pty Ltd, an Australian carbon trading company committe...
New Zealand
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