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Downer News Issue 2 September-October 2015 4 The future of transport Community Awards Zero Harm 6 relationships 8 10 pivitol to success 2 Issue 2 September-October 2015 INNOVATION Future Box – Downer’s Downer supports inaugural innovation solar car innovation competition Downer is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of the 2015 Sunswift team as they compete in We have had a this year’s Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. tremendous response Sunswift is a team of undergraduate students from the University to our Future Box of New South Wales who build and race the world’s most advanced competition, with more solar cars. Their aim is to push the boundaries of technology in order than 100 ideas submitted so far. to inspire interest and action in sustainability. In 2013 the team’s car, eVe, achieved first place in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge across Australia. In 2014, eVe broke a FIA* What type of ideas are we looking for? World Record for the fastest electric car over 500km on a single charge. There is no such thing as a bad idea. Your idea could: This year the team has completely rebuilt eVe to become Australia’s ■ enhance our service offering; first ever road legal solar sports car (pending government certification), ■ improve the safety of our people; making eVe the first solar car in the world to be manufactured to ■ reduce our environmental impact; commercial safety standards. ■ drive collaboration; ■ create new revenue; In October, the team will compete in the Bridgestone World Solar ■ lift our own productivity and efficiency; Challenge Cruiser Class against other solar vehicles from all over the ■ differentiate Downer from its competitors; or globe, racing 3000km from Darwin to Adelaide. Points are awarded ■ create new IP. for both speed and practicality. We wish the Sunswift team well! ■ How to enter Entering is easy and open to all Downer employees. You can enter as an individual or as a team. Simply submit your idea to the Future Box portal: https://downerfuturebox.if-cloud.com. You can access the Future Box portal from work, home, mobile device or tablet. And ideas submitted for other Downer competitions can be entered. Prizes We will select three finalists from across the Group. The winner will receive a cash prize of $8,000, second will receive $2,000 and third will receive $1,000. Key dates The competition runs from Wednesday 9 September to 28 October. Finalists and winners will be announced mid-November. Follow the Sunswift team’s journey “Nobody knows our business better than our as they compete in the Bridgestone people and we want to know if you have ever World Solar Challenge: thought about a better or a new way of doing www.sunswift.com/ things – no matter how big or small.” ■ www.facebook.com/UNSWSunswift www.twitter.com/sunswift Need more information: www.instagram.com/unswsunswift/ ■ watch the short video https://youtu.be/bE4LDeffoVg ■ view and scan the poster at your site or download from the *The FIA is a global organisation that aims to safeguard the rights and promote the interests of intranet http://ow.ly/SB60s motorists and motor sports across the world. FIA World Records are the fastest recognised official ■ read the information pack http://ow.ly/SB64y speeds achieved by any wheeled vehicle on land (excluding motorcycles). The Record Attempts are ■ or email [email protected] standardised over a fixed length course and averaged over two runs in opposite directions. Downer News 3 INNOVATION OUR BRAND Have your say employee survey Thank you to everyone who participated in the Downer ‘Have your say’ employee Brand update survey. We received 4,393 online responses and approximately 2,200 paper survey responses. Numerous sites across Australia and New Zealand have Provisional (online only) results indicate that been rebranded since the launch of the new Downer brand we have scored well on aspects such as Safety, Teamwork and Mission & Values. What earlier this this year. this means is that the majority of respondents believe that safety is treated as a priority, they We are also making good progress rebranding our plant, equipment and vehicles. With over have good working relationships with their 15,000 pieces of plant and equipment, this is no small exercise. co-workers and they believe in the values of Downer. These provisional results also Here are some tips to help you get the most of the new brand: indicate that we need to commit more focus ■ Hard hat stickers are available from Staples. This now includes larger sized stickers to cover on areas such as Cross-Unit Cooperation the larger ‘Tenix’ logo on hard hats. Local coordinators who have access to the Staples portal (improving how we communicate and share can order as required for their teams. The cost of these is covered by Group Head Office: information across the business), Career http://netxpress.biz/main-catalogue-browse?&N=4294948620+4294617183 Opportunities (improving how we support professional and personal development) and ■ Clothing badges are available from Work Wear Group. Please order as required. Change & Innovation (improving how we ■ Stickers for plant/ equipment are available from RGI. Specific requirements are captured change and learn from our mistakes). as we go to each site and audit signage and plant/ vehicles/ equipment. The cost is covered by Group Head Office if it is part of the signage rebrand project. If you wish to order stickers outside the branding program, please contact RGI directly on [email protected] and Next steps place your order. These orders will be considered BAU and costs are to be borne by site. We expect to be able to share the full results with you in late October. We will also organise ■ are available from Stickers for posters and new branded printed materials employee engagement workshops to identify . Please order and pay from your own cost centre from the McDonald Printing innovative solutions to address each focus McDonald portal: www.mcdonaldprinting.com.au/downergroup/ area. The ideas and outcomes of these ■ Pull up banners are also available from McDonald Printing and can be ordered via workshops will be shared with the business. ■ the McDonald portal: www.mcdonaldprinting.com.au/downergroup/ ■ PPE clothing and uniforms should be ordered as part of your business as usual Below: One of the creative ballot boxes process through our preferred supplier Work Wear Group. Costs are borne by each created by our New Zealand team. site/business. For administrators in your business needing access to the online portals (e.g. Staples, McDonald Printing), instructions are on each portal login page. If you have any questions about the brand, please email [email protected]. In case you missed our last branding update, you can find it here: http://intranet.downeredi.com/onenews/Pages/DownerNewsIssue1Brandinghintsntips.aspx Are you a member of Downer Connect, Downer’s private Facebook community? Join the page and upload your images of the new brand in action! It’s also a great place to keep up to date on the latest news, project wins and updates from across the business. ■ www.facebook.com/groups/1023975880949428/ 4 Issue 2 September-October 2015 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP The future of transport Demand for urban transport infrastructure is projected to increase significantly. The cost of congestion in our capital cities was estimated at $13.7 billion in 2011 and is expected to increase to $53.3 billion in 2031 in the absence of additional capacity and/or demand management. Urban congestion is driving Commercial vehicle traffic is forecast to grow The road and rail freight task is projected to demand more strongly than private car traffic. The increase by 86 per cent from around 458 billion The 2015 Australian Infrastructure Audit Report growth in commercial vehicle traffic will tonne km in 2011 to 852 billion tonne km in 2031. continue to increase in line with the Australian predicts demand for many key urban road and Demand for freight rail infrastructure is economy which is projected to grow in the rail corridors to significantly exceed current projected to grow, in particular for resource order of 84 per cent, from $1.4 trillion in 2011 capacity by 2031. bulk commodity haulage in Western Australia, to $2.6 trillion in 2031 – a rate of 3.1 per cent Queensland and NSW. The expansion of rail per year. This growth in our population and route kilometres over the past five years, economy will make us richer as a country, most notably between iron ore mines and but it will also create unprecedented bulk export ports in Western Australia, has infrastructure challenges. led to high demand for new rolling stock. Subsequently, maintenance services for this Public transport on the rise stock were developed and this has resulted At present, only one in six Australians travel in long-term support for the industry. to work by public transport – however, that Freight rail will need to play a growing role in demand is projected to increase by 89 per cent the movement of goods between ports and by 2031. Both public transport and road inland freight terminals, and in the movement infrastructure will need to be expanded to of containerised and general freight over keep up with this growth. longer distances. The passenger rail market is expected to Infrastructure demand is being directly driven become more important to the transportation Opportunities for Downer by strong growth in our population and industry. Increased government subsidies Our capabilities position us well to capitalise economy. Australia’s population is expected will result in increased spending on railway on the projected work coming through the to grow from 22.3 million in 2011 to 30.5 million manufacturing and repair equipment and/or pipeline.