our projects

Sydney Metro West involves the construction and operation of a metro rail line around 24 kilometres long between Westmead and the Sydney CBD. It includes nine new metro stations and provides new rail catchments, placemaking opportunities and critical congestion relief to the existing T1 Western Line. As part of the Sydney Metro West Final Business Case team, bd infrastructure led the stakeholder interface across the project’s key government precincts of Westmead, Sydney Olympic Park and The Bays, as well as coordination with the Parramatta Light Rail project teams to support integration of project design with master planning and project development activities occurring at these precincts to drive land use, precinct and transport outcomes.

bd infrastructure also delivered a variety of complex graphics for the Final Business Case to enhance and help better communicate key findings from all aspects of the business case analysis.

Sydney Metro West involves the construction and operation of a metro rail line around 24 kilometres long between Westmead and the Sydney CBD. It includes nine new metro stations and provides new rail catchments, placemaking opportunities and critical congestion relief to the existing T1 Western Line.

bd infrastructure has performed a number of key client side roles within the Sydney Metro West team, including Director Environment, Sustainability and Planning Approvals, a key role within the project leadership team. This role led the project’s Environment, Sustainability and Planning Approval team, during key stages of the project including project development, securing of planning approvals, procurement of major contract packages and the early stages of delivery.

More recently, bd infrastructure have fulfilled Senior Manager and Manager roles within the planning approval team. These roles involve leading the negotiation of conditions of approval, successfully managing a number of consistency assessment and modifications to the infrastructure planning approval, managing multiple Concept State Significant Development Applications for over station developments and providing ongoing advice regarding planning matters.

bd infrastructure also held a number of key roles in the consultant team which successfully delivered the EIS for rail infrastructure, stations, precincts and operations (EIS Stage 3). This included overall project management, design interface and specialist studies management. The team drove the development of an innovative place-based EIS and effectively managed the budget and program to achieve key milestone and meet Sydney Metro expectations.

Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport involves the construction and operation of a metro railway line around 23km long, with six stations (including two stations servicing the Western Sydney International (airport) site) between St Marys in the north and the Bradfield City Centre in the south.

bd infrastructure provided client-side environmental services, working with the project team and the technical advisor to develop a scoping and definition design during the Final Business Case phase that responded appropriately to environmental constraints and approvals processes across the Western Sydney corridor. We successfully implemented the agreed planning approvals strategy for the project, including managing the delivery of an Environmental Impact Statement and Airport Plan variation to respond to the highly complex approvals across both State and Federal statutory processes (including EP&A Act, EPBC Act, Airports Act).

Metro North West Line is Australia’s first fully-automated driverless railway in Australia which commenced operations in May 2019. It provides an elegant public transport solution to an area of Sydney with one of the highest car ownership in Australia. Minimising the greenhouse gas emissions and consideration of climate resilience has informed the design, construction and operations of the project from the very beginning.

In the operations phase, bd infrastructure is supporting Sydney Metro to ensure the Metro North West Line minimise its impact on the environment, is on target for net-zero operations and remains resilient to the know effects of clime change.

bd infrustructure supported the Communications Team at Parramatta Light Rail in a secondment role. We were responsible for producing print and digital communication pieces for the project.

Design work included: the layout of publications and fliers, fact sheets and reports, print and html newsletters; creation of maps, diagrams and infographics; signage and public exhibition displays; advertisements for print and web; and templates for use by the Project team.

bd infrastructure supported the planning approvals consultant deliver the submissions report for the Western Harbour Tunnel project and separately the Beaches Link project. This included submissions report issues analysis and technical review roles.

bd infrastructure has also provided post approval support to John Holland CPB Contractors Joint Venture as part of the southern tunnelling works package, which included authoring impact assessments and reviewing environmental management documentation.

bd infrastructure is leading communications and engagement on behalf of Transport for NSW for a major project to upgrade access to the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway. Stakeholder and community engagement has successfully repositioned the project and helped TfNSW navigate sensitive stakeholder responses. We led the design and implementation of two public engagement periods: first, selecting a concept alignment for ramp access, and second, displaying shortlisted ramp concepts derived from a design competition.

Our strategic innovation in repositioning the project to focus on design excellence created widespread support and momentum, overcoming the lack of consensus that delayed the project for many years. As a result of our work, the project gained support from 82% of community survey respondents in addition to broad stakeholder endorsement. The consultation enabled the team to understand and respond to concerns with a design excellence process that also has a strong Designing for Country focus.

The Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link will provide a new underground motorway interchange to City West Link and provide an underground bypass of Victoria Road between the Iron Cove Bridge and the ANZAC Bridge, with links to the approved Western Harbour Tunnel. The project will also deliver new active transport options in Rozelle and over 9 hectares of new open space.

bd infrastructure provided contractor-side support for the establishment of an environmental approvals system. This system automated the complex and numerous requirements of the project’s Planning Approval to ensure easy tracking, reporting and auditing.

bd infrastructure provided client side support to Transport for NSW helping to manage delivery of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Blackheath to Little Hartley stage of works. This included review of all technical papers and (EIS) chapters, managing the design interface between the environmental assessment contractor and the design Technical Advisor to manage planning approval risks and effectively scope the project for EIS assessment.

Other key aspects of the role included engagement with stakeholders around the EPBC Act referral process with DCCEEW (Commonwealth) and Critical State Significant Infrastructure (CSSI) declaration process (NSW) with DPE. bd infrastructure also provided internal planning approvals advice and strategy to the Transport team around EIS program, delivery risk and strategy, including planning approvals pathway advice for ancillary infrastructure scope.

We also provided inputs to the Gate 2 business case process, including presentations to Gate 2 INSW review team and briefings to the Transport for NSW steering committee for the project.

The Western City Network Program consists of seven road corridors within the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, to meet the future needs of Sydney’s Western Parkland City. The network will provide higher order connections between the strategic motorway network and precinct-level connections and local streets. bd infrastructure were engaged by Transport for NSW to investigate potential environmental, social, economic, planning and sustainability issues and opportunities for the network.

bd infrastructure collaborated with multiple specialist branches of Transport, conducted thorough background research and database searches, prepared extensive GIS mapping and undertook a preliminary climate risk pre-screening to highlight key issues, opportunities and recommendations to inform the strategic business case, including strategic designs, options assessment, cost estimates, and best practice application of the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development.

Transport for NSW are currently investigating options for the grade separation of a number of road and rail interfaces in regional NSW due to the Inland Rail. The grade separation of select road and rail interfaces would provide enhanced efficiency and network reliability, improved safety for all road and rail users, and improved accessibility and connectivity of the road network.

bd infrastructure prepared three preliminary environmental, sustainability and planning investigations (PESPIs) for six sites in Parkes, Forbes and Culcairn. The PESPIs included extensive GIS mapping to identify environmental and planning constraints across each of the six sites, which were used to help inform the early stages of design development. Specific sustainability objectives, issues and opportunities were also considered for each PESPI.

The King Street Cycleway project includes a separated two-way cycleway along King Street in the Sydney CBD, between the Clarence Street and Pitt Street intersections. The project would provide an important ‘missing link’ by extending the existing two-way cycleway between Clarence Street and Pitt Street to create a continuous west-east cycleway along King Street.

bd infrastructure were engaged by Transport for NSW to prepare a project Review of Environmental Factors (REF) in accordance with Division 5.1 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. The REF considered a number of environmental impacts associated with the proposal, including non-Aboriginal heritage impacts and nosie and vibration impacts due to its location in the Sydney CBD.

bd infrastructure supported ACCIONA with community engagement for the public exhibition of the Western Harbour Tunnel – Stage 2 Environmental Impact Statement Modification. The brief was to engage community members about the project and potential construction impacts, while also promoting awareness of the benefits of the changed construction approach. Our team collaborated closely with Transport for NSW and ACCIONA throughout this process. We supported the development of engagement materials, implementation of outreach programs, the online project portal with spatial mapping, and organised in-person and online community drop-in sessions. We developed a comprehensive report on engagement themes and outcomes that was used to inform the EIS Response to Submissions Report. In addition, an independent member of our team audited ACCIONA’s Community Engagement and Stakeholder Plan as part of the project’s ISCA rating.

bd infrastructure was engaged by SCT to help assist Transport for NSW undertake a Movement and Place (M&P) Assessment to help build an understanding of diverse stakeholder views and how people move around the Nowra-Bomaderry area for different purposes. We designed and facilitated  a series of in-person workshops with key stakeholders to understand movement and place visions for the area, map opportunities and constraints and assess options.

We were also engaged to undertake the Nowra-Bomaderry Transport Plan study. This involved 11 stakeholder interviews with interviewees representing organisations based in, or with operations in the Nowra-Bomaderry area, an online survey completed by 216 respondents and the use of existing data provided by Transport for NSW. Feedback and insights on how people use their local transport network(s), why they do not use particular transport options, how the area could be enhanced from transport and place-based perspectives and to learn about other challenges that currently exist within the Nowra-Bomaderry area were used to inform the Movement and Place Assessment.

bd infrastructure was engaged by Transport for NSW to provide communication and engagement support services to support the design and delivery of the Oxford Street Cycleway. The proposed two-way cycleway will run from Paddington Gate at Centennial Park down the southern side of Oxford Street to Taylor Square. The project aims to improve amenity, support coordinated rejuvenation and enable people of all ages and abilities to ride a bike.

Department of Infrastructure engaged bd infrastructure to support them in rolling out 43 sign types totalling 129 signage templates and supporting guidelines for the new Building Australia road signage brand across the nation. The base design concept of each type of sign was provided by the Department of Infrastructure creative team. We worked collaboratively with the Department to ensure the final design of each sign worked optimally before conversions to InDesign, Illustrator ai, EPS and editable Acrobate PDF. The InDesign and Illustrator templates were set up with editable and non-editable layers and end user instructions. The sign types included hoarding, aluminium, corflute and copper commemorative signage. Australian Government Signage Guidelines, a 46 page guide, was created in collaboration with the Department creative team with the final output as an accessible PDF for web.

Raising London Circuit involves the raising of London Circuit between Edinburgh Avenue and Constitution Avenue to meet the current height of Commonwealth Avenue, as well as the provision of a new signalised intersection between London Circuit and Commonwealth Avenue

This work would directly facilitate the extension of the Canberra Light Rail network and development of Section 63.

bd infrastructure provided client-side social impact assessment services, including authoring an assessment and a Socioeconomic Impact Management Plan to form part of the project’s non-statutory environmental assessment. We applied a best-practice approach, utilising the NSW Department of Planning and Environment’s Social Impact Assessment Guideline (2021), as well as the International Association for Impact Assessment’s Social Impact Assessment Guidance Note (2015), and framing our assessment around indicators relevant to the people of Canberra – namely, the ACT Wellbeing Framework. The management plan was designed based on best-practice advice, as well as our team’s intimate knowledge of construction delivery.

ACT Light Rail Stage Two will deliver light rail services from the Canberra CBD to Woden via the Parliamentary Triangle.

Approvals and environmental support (delivery-side)

bd infrastructure has provided delivery-side support to a tenderer for Canberra Light Rail Stage 2A. Our focus contractor-side has been to understand key risks in the delivery and operational spaces, and provide approvals and environmental advice on core elements of the Project’s design and methodology.

Approvals support (client-side)

bd infrastructure provided strategic planning approvals advice to Major Projects Canberra regarding the approvals strategy for project. This included options analysis of various procurement mechanisms to engage a planning approval service provider and development of the Statement of Requirements for planning approval services.

SIA peer review

bd infrastructure were engaged in a client-side role working closely with Major Projects Canberra to peer review the Socio-economic Impact Assessment which formed part of the Environmental Impact Assessment. Our review focussed on the assessment’s ability to deliver a robust and publicly defendable analysis of the socioeconomic impacts (both benefits and disbenefits) of the project, and its capacity to draw on established guidelines and recognised best-practice and examples.

SEIA and SIMP delivery

bd infrastructure were engaged in a client-side role to author the Socio-economic Impact Assessment and Socio-economic Impact Management Plan for Stage 2A of Canberra Light Rail. Our assessment and recommendations for management during delivery focussed on outcomes of engagement with 1000’s of Canberrans, as well as connecting the Project to the ACT Wellbeing Framework; an established community-led indicator framework which guides decision making in the ACT.

Ausgrid is the largest electricity distributor on Australia’s east coast, providing power to 1.8 million customers. Every five years Ausgrid is required to submit a draft pricing proposal to the Australian Energy Regulator about its proposed business operations and service delivery. bd infrastructure led a series of workshops to design a customer advocacy model for the reset process. This resulted in the establishment of a Reset Customer Panel that will oversee the process and provide ‘depth’ of customer consideration. We then co-designed a broad and comprehensive engagement framework and developed a graphic design to communicate it, visually signposting key customer groups and phases of the engagement. bd infrastructure is currently undertaking engagement through a series of targeted customer discussions and round tables, and a comprehensive deliberative process.

bd infrastructure worked with Ausgrid in 2023 to engage communities in three Local Government Areas on the investment needed to improve energy-related resilience in the face of extreme weather events. The engagement program comprised 12 workshops – four in each LGA – with around 30 community members in each.

At the heart of the engagement process was the need for each group to assemble a package of responses that met a budget cap and which did not have too great an impact on customer bills. This resulted in the development of a ‘supermarket’ analogy (see image below) to help participants consider 1) their needs before going shopping, 2) the products in the supermarket aisles, 3) things that were already in the pantry (ie responses that Ausgrid is already doing) and 4) the budget they needed to keep to at the check-out.

We also helped develop the concept of ‘fast’ money (opex expenditure that is recovered annually and is therefore passed on to the customer bill; and ‘slow’ money (capex that is recovered over a long period which therefore has a lower bill impact.) These concepts helped participants understand the trade-offs they needed to make in developing their final package.

Feedback and findings from the engagement process were used to support the submission that Ausgrid is legislatively required to submit to the Australian Energy as part of its 2024-2029 regulatory reset proposal.  Our facilitators were called out by Ausgrid, participants and observers of the process, as being highly skilled at guiding participants through a complex and technical process that required them to make careful investment decisions.

EnergyConnect is an energy interconnector between South Australia and New South Wales, with an added connection to Victoria. The route passes through renewable energy zones in all three states, enabling future renewable projects in these areas to connect to the grid and supply energy into the network. bd infrastructure provided environmental and planning support to the SecureEnergy Joint Venture. The contractor is delivering the NSW-Western and NSW-Eastern portions of the project, consisting of 700km of new and upgraded transmission lines. As part of the pre-construction approvals process, bd infrastructure prepared construction environmental management plans and pre-construction approval documents, managed technical specialists and provided advice to the design and construction teams.

bd infrastructure was engaged by Jemena Gas Networks (JGN) to support their preparation of a costed business plan for the 2025-2030 period as legislatively required by the Australian Energy Regulator. To prepare this, JGN developed an engagement program involving multiple forums and bd infrastructure helped with the design and delivery of the Customer Forum and Key Voices streams. Online and in-person workshops were held to collect feedback and insights from everyday customers, potential customers, culturally and linguistically diverse and young people to discuss and grapple with the trade-offs associated with the transition to Net Zero and the approach Jemena should take over the five year period.

bd infrastructure was also engaged by JGN to design and deliver six online workshops (three in Stage 1 and three in Stage 2) involving randomly recruited community participants who use gas in their households, Jemena staff, key subject matter experts and independent observers from the Australian Energy Regulator (AER), the Consumer Challenge Panel (CCP) and other organisations. Summary reports were prepared for Jemena after each workshop along with an overall Outcomes Report.

bd infrastructure was engaged by Firm Power to prepare Socio Economic Impact Assessments (SEIAs) for three large scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) being planned for locations at Awaba (Lake Macquarie), Beresfield (City of Newcastle) and Muswellbrook (Upper Hunter) in NSW. As part of this process, bd infrastructure engaged local community members and other key stakeholders through interviews, door knocking and an online survey with questions specific to each individual BESS project. Key findings and feedback from the SEIAs were also used to help prepare the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS) report for each BESS.

bd infrastructure provided strategic and practical support to the Central Station precinct renewal team at Transport for NSW. bd infrastructure was commissioned to help prepare for the exhibition of the Central Station Precinct Strategic Vision, the first phase of a new State Significant Precinct assessment process. The team led the preparation of a vision summary, drafting copy, negotiating approvals, developed engagement collateral and illustrative maps and led logistics to support community drop-in sessions, supported media coverage and provided creative services to support the Central Station Precinct Strategic Business Case.

Building on our insights, we developed a strategic engagement approaches document for TfNSW to assist with the next stage of the planning process – the development of the Central Precinct Planning Study. The approaches focussed on opportunities to partner with community and stakeholders and build long term social value and benefits.

Transport for NSW engaged bd infrastructure to design and facilitate three community workshops during the development of the Redfern North Eveleigh Strategic Vision. Using digital collaborative tools, our innovative approach facilitated a high level of collaborative involvement and project visioning, overcoming the challenges involved with working remotely in a Covid-safe environment. The insights gained supported planning advice that bd infrastructure also provided to the Redfern North Eveleigh team through a separate commission.

The Parramatta North Program involves a number of strategic projects and initiatives that will help realise the Government’s vision for a globally-significant innovation district at Westmead. bd infrastructure supported Infrastructure NSW and the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to develop a comprehensive stakeholder map and plan for the precinct. Our work included participation at a cross-agency stakeholder mapping workshop, development of a stakeholder engagement plan to navigate immediate issues and medium-term outcomes and objectives while also persuasively articulating a long-term vision for the precinct.