This prestigious residential estate is located on a rise between the Pacific Ocean, a protected wetlands, established high end housing, and farmland, and was classified as a high value cultural heritage site. Very strict environmental and construction constraints formed part of the DA requirements for the project and as such, high levels of environmental and cultural heritage management and protection were required throughout works.

Winslow Constructors’ Medium Density team has been busy developing the Cranbourne North Aged Care and Retirement Village in Melbourne’s southeast sand belt.

The project will form a new community for Summerset, a New Zealand-based operator expanding into the Australian market.

The large, gated community in Cranbourne is New Zealand-based company Summerset’s first village in Australia, and Winslow’s largest medium density project.

The team has navigated major road upgrade on a neighbouring intersection on the south and western boundary, difficult sandy conditions that caused major dust outbreaks, and the wet winter last year also made the site inaccessible, further delaying the official commencement to late 2022.

The project started last October and is on track to be completed by the end of this year.

The Winslow Constructors team in Shepparton, in Victoria’s Goulburn Region, has hit the ground running at Uptown Estate, with our earthworks crews making an impressive start onsite. 

With favourable conditions the team has quickly been able to strip the topsoil with our scrapper fleet and we now have the cut-to-fill operation well underway. 

We will shortly have the site ready for sewer and drainage as we continue to get Uptown ready for success.

Winslow Infrastructure is upgrading three key intersections on High Street in Melton for the Department of Transport.

The Coburns Road, Norton Drive and Holland Drive intersections are located within 3.3km of each other near Melton’s two Western Freeway interchanges.

Improving safety for the community is the priority and the team is constructing turning lanes and median strips, a raised safety platform and traffic islands into the design and installing new traffic lights to support pedestrians and traffic movements through the area safely.

Winslow Constructors’ Bendigo team recently hosted VIPs for a soil-turning and traditional smoking ceremony on the Invicta Industrial Estate in East Bendigo.

City of Greater Bendigo Mayor Andrea Metcalf, Deputy Mayor Matthew Evans and site developer Hickory CEO Michael Argyrou joined Winslow leaders and Invicta site employees for the ceremony.

Jason Kerr from Djaara Country for performed the smoking ceremony and welcomed the group to walk beside each other. He also cleansed the site to open up to good spirits.

Invicta is the city's first greenfield industrial precinct, which covers 23 hectares with a variety of lot sizes, and is the largest industrial site development in the region for more than seven years.

Winslow Constructors’ Bendigo team recently hosted VIPs for a soil-turning and traditional smoking ceremony on the Invicta Industrial Estate in East Bendigo.

City of Greater Bendigo Mayor Andrea Metcalf, Deputy Mayor Matthew Evans and site developer Hickory CEO Michael Argyrou joined Winslow leaders and Invicta site employees for the ceremony.

Jason Kerr from Djaara Country for performed the smoking ceremony and welcomed the group to walk beside each other. He also cleansed the site to open up to good spirits.

Invicta is the city's first greenfield industrial precinct, which covers 23 hectares with a variety of lot sizes, and is the largest industrial site development in the region for more than seven years.

February has certainly started with a bang for the Winslow Infrastructure team at the Sunbury Road Upgrade, with special guests on site and project milestones to kick off the month.

Late last week, the State Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Member for Sunbury, Josh Bull MP, put boots to the freshly asphalted ground at the Lancefield Road Intersection, which re opened to traffic before the weekend.

This marked the completion of the first of three major occupations and a huge accomplishment for the whole team.

The team completed three months’ worth of work in just five weeks, working around the clock and fighting heavy downpours of rain in the last few days to open early.

Josh Bull MP expressed excitement about the opening later that night, spending some time with a few of our engineers on the ground.

Project Director, Stephen Cliff, praised the team on a fantastic effort and milestone for the project.

“It was a great coordination of effort by the whole Sunbury Road Project team to safely deliver the new intersection, a terrific outcome for the community of Sunbury,” Steve said.

Well done to the whole team.

Last week, the Winslow Infrastructure team at the Sunbury Road Upgrade successfully completed the first deck pour on the new bridge crossing Jacksons Creek.

The 150 cubic metres of concrete was poured across the 25m long bridge, which will take up to four weeks to cure. 

The bridge beams were lifted into place in February, with two additional layers to be poured over the coming months.

These layers play a pivotal role in holding the load weight and transferring pressure downward, into the substructures of the bridge.

Our team has also been working hard to limit any environmental impacts to Jacksons Creek, which has historical and environmental significance to the Sunbury community.

The new bridge will open in June to enable work to begin on the existing bridge.

Well done to the whole team on reaching this milestone safely.

In an exciting announcement, Winslow Infrastructure in Queensland has been contracted by the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) for the Coomera Connector Stage 1 – Early Works – Nerang River to Nerang-Broadbeach Road.

The 16km Coomera Connector (Stage 1) will be delivered in three construction packages to relieve pressure on the M1 by providing an alternative route for local traffic and additional crossings of the Coomera and Nerang rivers and provide more transport options on the northern Gold Coast.

The early works program will make the site construction-ready with vegetation clearing, relocation of service utilities, bulk earthworks, and preloading activities to be undertaken to support the next stage of construction, where new embankment and excess material will be placed on the existing ground for approximately six months to consolidate and increase the bearing capacity of the underlying soft soils.

Once settled, the excess embankment will be removed and ready for this stage of the Coomera Connector motorway.

The connector will improve and provide more reliable travel times between Brisbane and the Gold Coast by reducing the number of local trips on the M1 and increase safety.

The Australian and Queensland governments have committed a total of $3.026 billion to the project.

It is an environmentally sensitive area requiring a Koala Management Plan to ensure that koalas are appropriately protected during construction and operation.

“Winslow is delighted with the announcement which is another huge step in Winslow Infrastructure’s growth in Queensland and a great opportunity to further expand our delivery portfolio with Dept. Transport and Main Roads,” said Winslow Queensland Regional Manager Anthony Rosario.

The early works are expected to begin in July 2024 and be completed by late 2025.

Winslow Infrastructure’s Sunbury Road Upgrade team was awarded the best project over $150 million at the 2024 CCF Earth Awards last Friday night.

The Civil Contractors Federation Earth Awards are an annual celebration of the ‘best of the best’ when it comes to excellence in project delivery in the civil construction industry.

“Major Road Projects Victoria and WI worked in partnership to provide an exceptional outcome for the local community, existing stakeholders and the many interfacing new housing developments in the Sunbury region,” said WI General Manager Leonard Bam.

“This win is a celebration of excellence in our industry, and one we should all be very proud of.

“Congratulations to everyone who played a part in delivering this exceptional project”.

It's the Winslow Way.

Winslow continues to invest in innovation to ensure a safe workplace for our staff, contractors, and clients.

After 18 months of R&D in partnership with machine safety control specialists Webbair and SITECH Construction Systems, Winslow recently unveiled its pioneering 3D Utility Avoidance technology, which will be a game-changer for the industry.

“Winslow has long been leaders in the machine control technology space,” said Hugh Peck, General Manager of Winslow’s Group Services.

“With over 170 smart machines across our fleet, we continue to lead the industry.

“Through Trafman and SMS, Winslow has been able to produce a system that is unparallel in the industry.”

The 3D avoidance technology allows machine operators to dig closely and safely to existing services in complex Brownfield environments, which have been mapped out by our surveying teams.

Onboard sensors and technology restrict and then immobilise the digger whenever the bucket comes close to mapped-out avoidance zones to minimise safety risks and to prevent expensive damage and project delays.

“We control the process from start to finish. We locate the assets, we model the assets, we put them in the machine,” Hugh said.

The system delivers robust engineering controls to keep machines out of any pre-defined high-risk areas and significantly reduces risk of extremely dangerous and costly sub-surface service strikes.

“What we’ve done on this system is we’ve essentially created a digital twin of the existing site conditions, so we’ve got a digital model,” said Survey Management Solutions’ survey specialist Adam Hammet.

“We’ve used that and all our other models to create a real-world digital version of what’s in the ground.”

Operators also receive real-time updates on underground services from surveyors working remotely, which allows work to continue without needing to wait for new data.

“It just gives me the confidence that whatever’s in the ground is on the computer there in front of me. I can literally look through my files, see what I need to know for the day plan out my works, and be reassured I’m not going to do damage or hurt anybody,” said machine operator Bernie Wholey.

Allowing for the operator or supervisor to add in any new hazards or high-risk areas on the fly without requiring them to be defined digitally is potentially one of the biggest benefits of the system, which was demanded from the market at the start of the due diligence phase.

Winslow Infrastructure superintendent Jason Radley said, “it’s an industry leading machine – nobody’s done it in the past”.

“All our known services that we’ve picked up earlier on in the project we can put that into the machine, and it gives us confidence that we can dig new services without actually hitting them, which will also give the asset owners confidence when we go to do our job.”

“They (asset owners) have confidence that we’re going to stay away from their services which is going to keep people in the industry safe and allow them to concentrate on their actual job instead of coming out to fix damaged services.

“It’s going to take us into the future.”

The new fully equipped machine will be rolled out on to its first project at the Lathams Road Upgrade this month.

Winslow Queensland is set to commence work on the Samford Road safety improvements project, which aims to reduce the rate and severity of crashes along the 1.5km section of road.

The $13.98 million project, northwest  of Brisbane, is funded by the Queensland Government's Targeted Road Safety Program, which aims to address known and potential crash locations using high-benefit, cost-effective safety treatments.

This section of Samford Road was identified by Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) for safety improvements due to its high crash rate, which includes over 10 serious injury crashes and one fatality in the last five years of available crash data.

Works will include road resurfacing for a safer, smoother surface, installing additional guardrail for greater protection from roadside hazard, shoulder widening and wide centre line treatment to separate through-traffic and reduce the potential for head-on and loss-of-control crashes.

Drainage improvements will be made as well as raised median and traffic islands, new lighting, pavement rehabilitation and green infrastructure to improve fauna safety.

Next month, our team will also begin work on the Gordon Road and Ferny Way, Ferny Hills - intersection upgrade for City of Moreton Bay.

Winslow Group Procurement Manager Trent Chamberlain is featured on this month’s cover of Inside Construction magazine for an article about the business’s use of biodiesel as a sustainable option.

Biodiesel is a co-mingled product derived from vegetable oils and animal fats and used as an alternative to conventional diesel.

Typically, biodiesel is blended with diesel in five per cent (B5), 10 per cent (B10) and 20 per cent (B20) ratios.

“Our 2022 carbon inventory brought to light the potential of biodiesel fuel as an easy solution, readily available to contribute to reducing our scope one emissions produced by diesel burn throughout our operations,” Trent said.

Winslow has partnered with Viva Energy, our supplier of fuels and lubricants for our plant and equipment, to reduce emissions without impacting company operations.

“It’s customers like Winslow Group, those actively striving to reduce emissions today, that are positioning themselves ahead of the curve as sustainability requirements intensify across the industry,” said Yap Chong Hua, Viva Energy’s Key Account Manager – Transport.