Companies bid to build Brisbane Metro as land resumptions finalised

The owners of four properties in Brisbane south have willingly handed over their land to the council so it can build a depot for the $944 million Brisbane Metro project.

On Tuesday, Brisbane City Council approved the resumption of four private properties on School Road at Rochedale.

The $944 million Brisbane Metro project is expected to be operating by 2023.Credit: Brisbane City Council

The council first issued the notices to resume to the owners on June 29, 2018, and no objections were received from the property owners.

Opposition leader Peter Cumming criticised the available information on the resumptions, saying there was very little detail.

“I feel there could have been much more information given,” he said.

Public and Active Transport chairman Adrian Schrinner said the council would now make a formal application to the state government to finalise the property acquisition.

“Sadly I can’t report that there has been any progress on the state government land that we need,” he said.

“But I hold hope that we will get there before too long.”

A 4.5 hectare site at Rochedale will be the location of the Brisbane Metro depot.Credit: Brisbane City Council.

The state government owns a 4.5 hectare block of land at Rochedale needed for the depot as well as a 1600 square metre lot on Grey Street at South Brisbane needed to build the underground Cultural Centre station.

Cr Schrinner said the metro had progressed in other areas as well, with five different consortia putting in a proposal for the major infrastructure package, which would include the $315 million underground station at the Cultural Centre and a tunnel beneath Adelaide Street in Brisbane CBD.

Cr Schrinner said people would be very familiar with a lot of these companies.

“The key construction firms that we would expect to be putting in proposals on this major project have shown a great level of interest and based,” he said.

All of the submissions will now progress to the next stage, the request for proposal stage.

Cr Schrinner said once the formal tender process started h anticipated to shortlist during that process and then progress from there.

“The construction industry, the people who will partner with us to deliver this project are really showing us the highest level of interest so that’s a great outcome,” he said.

Consortia bidding to build Brisbane Metro:

• Brisbane Move Consortium, comprising Acciona Construction Australia Pty Ltd and Arup Australia Projects Pty Ltd;
• Lendlease consortium comprising, Lendlease Engineering Pty Ltd and WSP Australia Pty Ltd;
• MetroConnect consortium, comprising Laing O’Rourke Australia Construction Pty Ltd, AECOM Australia Pty Ltd and Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd;
• METRO4BNE consortium, comprising CPB Contractors Pty Ltd, Seymour Whyte Constructions Pty Ltd, Vinci Construction Grand Projets SAS and SMEC Australia Pty Ltd; and
• TransForm BNE consortium, comprising McConnell Dowell Constructors Pty Ltd, John Holland Pty Ltd and GHD Pty Ltd.

The $944 million Brisbane Metro will run over 21 kilometres with two new high-frequency, high-capacity lines, linking Eight Mile Plains to Roma Street and Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital to the University of Queensland Lakes and all busway stations in between.