Downer’s expertise in the delivery of tailored maintenance and operations solutions optimises asset life and enhances network safety, resilience and accessibility.
Customers benefit from our full spectrum of road maintenance, operations and capital works capabilities. Our services are diverse – covering the complex range of road corridor assets, which include all types of roads (sealed and unsealed), bridges, tunnels footpaths and cycleways, drainage, structures (barriers, retaining walls, fences), street furniture, traffic services assets (lighting, guardrails, etc), and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), such as sensors, CCTV, traffic counters.
Our road maintenance and operations are carried out across a range of different environments and address the unique needs and requirements of urban, rural, remote and busy city centre roads. Keeping roads safe and accessible for customers underpins our 24/7 incident and emergency response and recovery.
Working closely with industry and key customers including central government, state and territory governments and local governments across Australia and New Zealand, we offer tailored solutions that balance value for money, network accessibility and resilience, and broader customer objectives.
To achieve optimum road maintenance outcomes (safety, value for money, quality, accessibility), we take a holistic, network-wide approach, ensuring every key asset within the road corridor is considered and prioritised to deliver maximum efficiency, value, and quality. Our strategy is built on a deep understanding of each network and road’s unique characteristics, operational demands, and evolving customer expectations. By leveraging advanced asset modelling, data-driven insights, and predictive maintenance planning, we deliver highly customised solutions that enhance asset performance. This integrated approach enables customers to make informed decisions, optimise investment, and achieve sustainable outcomes across their entire road network.
Our diverse capability and expertise allow us to deliver complex and critical road maintenance for a diverse range of networks for local government and private customers. In Australia this includes, CityLink in Melbourne and NorthConnex in Sydney, and in New Zealand we deliver multiple State Highway contracts, such as the Milford Road Alliance (including management of the Homer Tunnel), and local authority contracts like, Tararua Alliance and the Connect Hamilton, and both urban and rural network maintenance for Auckland Transport. We are committed to identifying new innovative road maintenance and rehabilitation approaches to achieve optimum value and quality. Through our partnership with the NZ Transport Agency, we have delivered an innovative accelerated road rehabilitation program along State Highway 1—Tīrau to Waiouru in the Central North Island — one of New Zealand’s most ambitious renewal initiatives.
Our comprehensive experience delivering major network maintenance across Australia and New Zealand fosters a deep understanding of road network assets and systems, which is critical to our rapid and effective incident and emergency response. Downer is a reliable incident and emergency partner, responding to slips, flooding and other network incidents to restore network safety and access to reconnect communities. We are often referred to as the ‘fifth’ emergency service, and also work closely with Civil Defence – reflecting Downer’s trusted role in keeping transport networks, safe, functional and resilient.
