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Lendlease Building will deliver critical infrastructure works to Garden Island, Sydney, after winning a contract for stage two of the program offered by Defence.
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The project is valued at $286 million, and Lendlease is scheduled to commence the works in May 2019, with an estimated completion in late 2023.
Assistant Minister for Defence David Fawcett made the announcement, with the contract representing "the government’s significant investment in Garden Island as the primary home port for Navy ships on the east coast".
“Lendlease has developed a Local Industry Capability Plan, which will maximise opportunities for local and Indigenous business to be involved, with approximately 2,500 personnel being directly and indirectly employed over the construction period,” Senator Fawcett said.
Stage two of the program will "remediate the remaining wharves as well as base-wide engineering services such as the electrical and fuel systems", with Defence saying the purpose of the works is to address "significant condition, capacity and compliance issues with the wharves and base-wide engineering services."
Stage one of the program was completed at a cost of $217 million, and featured the following six elements:
- Project Element 1: Demolition of wharf structures;
- Project Element 2: Construction of wharf structures;
- Project Element 3: Seabed dredging;
- Project Element 4: Wharf furniture;
- Project Element 5: Portal crane; and
- Project Element 6: Shore engineering services.
A summary of the original project timeline, as provided by Defence, is below:
