Roads Australia

We are excited to announce that Scott Henning, transport structures lead in our Melbourne office, has been accepted into the 2025 Roads Australia Fellowship program. This unique program brings together future leaders across Australia, pairing them with industry leaders to enhance their skills, knowledge and professional networks. Scott’s career has spanned continents, most recently leading our Victorian structures practice. With over 13 years of experience, he is passionate about finding the right solutions and implementing them efficiently, with a focus on practicality, sustainability and safety. We look forward to seeing what this next chapter holds as he continues to support transformative infrastructure. Find out more about the program and the 2025 Fellows: https://lnkd.in/gW8yZK5V #RAFellowship

🌟Engineering Manager Miranda Kossen from New South Wales and 🌟Alliance General Manager Andrew Coonan from South Australia will represent CPB Contractors as part of the Roads Australia Fellowship program for the 2025 calendar year. Together, they bring over 44 years of industry experience to the fellowship program, which focuses on enhancing skills, knowledge, and professional networks through a series of structured activities and mentoring by industry leaders over the 12-month course. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g6MzCHMD Want to hear more about what's happening across CPB Contractors? You can sign up for our mailing list here: https://lnkd.in/g2y8eRJA #CPBtogether #CPBinConstruction

We’re proud to share that Amanda Hua and Steve Thompson have been appointed to the 2025 Roads Australia Fellowship Program. The Roads Australia Fellowship Program is a prestigious program designed to develop the next generation of leaders in the Australian transport and infrastructure sector. The program offers a unique opportunity for a select group of future leaders. Amanda and Steve will participate in mentoring and a structured series of activities that enhance their skills, knowledge, and professional networks. Amanda is a civil engineer with significant experience working on a wide range of road and rail infrastructure projects. In recent years Amanda has enjoyed overseeing design coordination and providing technical leadership to multi-disciplinary project teams, managing the deployment and optimisation of project resources, and driving timely service delivery including positive technical and commercial outcomes. Steve is an experienced engineer and design manager specialising in the design delivery of major transport infrastructure and built environment projects locally and internationally. Steve focuses on creating a collaborative environment to consider architectural, functional and technical requirements to drive best for project outcomes. Please join us in congratulating Steve and Amanda and all other 2025 Fellows. Find out more here: https://mottm.ac/3NDhLmU

💥#EPIC news out of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop East, where almost 900 applications have been received to join the world’s first all-women tunnel boring machine (TBM) crew.💥 After comprehensive training, roles will include TBM operators, gantry operators and other essential support roles. The all-women crew will be one of eight TBM crews working on the southern section of the tunnels. This initiative, led by CPB Contractors and its Suburban Connect consortium partners, aims to encourage more gender diversity in the construction industry. You can read more here: https://lnkd.in/gHN44yCc Want to hear more about what's happening across CPB Contractors? You can sign up for our mailing list here: https://lnkd.in/g2y8eRJA #CPBtogether #CPBinConstruction Suburban Rail Loop Authority

William Phillips is a graduate construction adviser with BMD Group. He is also a recipient of Roads Australia’s 2024 Promise, Passion and Pursuit Award.   With RA’s support, Will is researching how organisations in our sector can help young professionals learn, grow and thrive. He recently sat down with five young professionals at Komatsu – Nitin Kumar, Achileas Delinikolis, Martin Moreau, Olivia Robinson, and Zeb Lupson, to catalogue their experiences.   Read Will’s #IndustryPerspectives piece, shared with subscribers in our #Insider magazine: https://lnkd.in/gVqF8tgh

Roads Australia is delighted to announce our new #FutureLeaders Committee for 2025. Comprised of RA Fellowship Alumni, the new Committee reflects our diverse membership and will provide strategic oversight over our Fellowship and Emerging Leaders Programs. We warmly congratulate our incoming Chair, Verity Turner - Transurban and Deputy Chairs, Ly Galanos - Aurecon and Alex Berry - McConnell Dowell, and welcome our new appointments - Matthew Burns - Transport for NSW, Clarissa Ahlberg - HDR and （李理）David, Li Li - SMEC. On behalf of everyone at RA, the Future Leaders Committee and the Fellowship Alumni, we wish to thank our outgoing Chair, Stuart Cook - BG&E for his service over the past five years. We also thank and acknowledge our outgoing Committee members, Thilanka Silva - Arup and Jana B. - Fika Consulting, who along with Stuart, have been instrumental in supporting the next generation of leaders in the transport sector. This year, we have also introduced Alumni Chapter Lead roles in each state, to provide additional support to the Committee as we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the RA Fellowship. We are pleased to have the ongoing support of Stuart and Thilanka in 2025 as QLD and WA Chapter Leads, as well as Jenny Robertson - John Holland, Donny Yap - Ventia, and Ana Guzman - WSP. Keep an eye on RA Insider for further updates from the Future Leaders Committee and how we will support young professionals in 2025: https://lnkd.in/egPRkdBb

Bede Noonan addressed a packed room of young professionals in Perth this week at the final event in our 2024 Emerging Leaders Breakfast series, sponsored by CPB Contractors.   We were particularly pleased to welcome a number of our 2024 and 2025 Fellows to the event including our new Future Leaders Committee representative for WA（李理）David, Li Li as well as Laura Donovan, Emma Shore, Monica Raju and John Perrott.   Sharing his insights both as a Roads Australia Board Director and CEO of ACCIONA AU & NZ, Bede reflected on how both the industry and his approach to leadership has evolved.   Acknowledging the need for greater innovation, efficiency and sustainability in the Australian infrastructure sector, he challenged attendees to be agents of change.   “For you as future leaders, the opportunity is to think not about the process, but about the outcome,” said Bede. “Be brave, be courageous, be open to change…at this stage in your career, embracing that and being the leaders of it is important.”   The full event gallery can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gPw8nj37   Keep an eye on our LinkedIn feed and RA Insider in coming weeks for more information about our 2025 Emerging Leaders Program.   Thank you to our sponsor CPB Contractors, who has helped make this very special event series possible, and to our speakers Bede Noonan, Justin Redelinghuys, Thilanka Silva and Elizabeth Kelleher-Cook.

"There are some incredible people in this industry... If you can be the one to get them all working in the right direction, that is leadership," said Mario Russo, Managing Director - Australia at McConnell Dowell. "It's about harnessing the people around you."   Speaking at yesterday's Emerging Leaders Breakfast in Adelaide sponsored by CPB Contractors, Mario shared highlights and lessons from his career in infrastructure. Acknowledging the significant opportunity for the sector's young professionals to support delivery of a record infrastructure pipeline in SA, Mario encouraged attendees to embrace challenges and put their hand up for projects that excite them.   Reflecting on his recent appointment as Managing Director of McConnell Dowell's Australian Business, Mario said: "It was a real privilege to take a national Managing Director position from Adelaide and I'm very proud of that and very proud of what we do in this state. I think we do some pretty spectacular things. We set a very high bar for the work we do in South Australia."   Thank you to our sponsor CPB Contractors and our speakers Mario Russo, Dallas Keane, Ly Galanos and Elizabeth Kelleher-Cook.   The full event gallery is now available here: https://lnkd.in/erwc3Sbs   Interested in learning more about our Emerging Leaders Program for 2025? Keep an eye on our Linkedin for announcements about next year's program.

The Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games provide the perfect springboard for transport, mobility and infrastructure projects required across Queensland to happen before the Games, not because of the Games.      These legacy opportunities were a key focus of GVLDA CEO Emma Thomas’s address in her keynote presentation at the Roads Australia Industry Lunch at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre last week.      With our Elevate 2042 legacy strategy already released, and Transport and Mobility Strategy in the works, we all can look forward to more seamless, sustainable and accessible transport, and better-connected venues, ahead of the Games, during the Games, and for decades after.  Read Elevate 2042 here: https://lnkd.in/gKA_ekuR    #Transport #TransportAndMobility #Infrastructure #Legacy #Elevate2042 #GVLDA

Amid budget constraints and challenging market conditions, Roads Australia and our members are always grateful for the opportunity to hear directly from those who are managing the funding envelope.   At our recent leaders lunch sponsored by Arcadis in Melbourne, we were pleased to host Kate O'Sullivan, Deputy Secretary - Infrastructure Division, Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance.   Kate outlined some of the ways in which the government is navigating the difficult landscape.   Local content policy and innovative approaches to contracting were discussed, with a healthy exchange of ideas on ways to strengthen government and industry delivery partnerships going forward.   Thank you to Kate and our sponsor Arcadis for helping us to deliver an excellent event.   Are you interested in hosting or attending our next leaders lunch on this topic? Contact Emma Drummond (Hall) in our Membership Services team.