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Having completed airport upgrades in the Northern Territory and accommodation infrastructure improvements in NSW, the company has highlighted the enduring commitment of their project and development services team to the ADF.
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JLL has completed a $50 million program of high-voltage upgrades to shared RAAF and commercial facilities at Darwin International Airport, including replacing the airside HV cabling and substations, alongside stakeholders from Defence and civil aviation.
One of the latest partnerships with Defence, Geoff Camp, JLL Defence lead, said all works were carried out in a phased manner, ensuring operations could continue at the airport.
“The value of this kind of partnership is that JLL has the wide view and knowledge to deliver a project of this scale while keeping the airport operational,” Camp said.
“We intrinsically understand how electrical upgrades affect everything else on base, so we were able to oversee and execute the complex scheduling and coordination required to keep the lights on.
“This ensured impacts on other Defence capabilities and international military exercises were kept to a minimum.”
Throughout the project, the company outlined that it had continued to prioritise supplier diversity.
Camp added: “The projects that have been delivered over the past five years have enabled JLL to assist IBEs (Indigenous business enterprises) to be in a position to continue to support Defence and its investment across the country.”
It comes as JLL delivered a rapid increase in live-in base accommodation at HMAS Creswell, the home of the Royal Australian Naval College.
With numbers on the Defence base often fluctuating, JLL supported the delivery of additional bedding across numerous modular buildings as sole-occupancy units, the company outlined.
Warwick Freeman, JLL account director - Defence, said: “JLL has the critical expertise to swing into action when Defence needs to scale up in a tight time frame to meet rapid deployment training requirements.
“In this case, the infrastructure needed to be delivered quickly to facilitate the training of more Naval officers.”
The two projects form part of the JLL Defence team’s ongoing support for the ADF’s Defence Works Program which has been in operation since 2014, completing projects across 73 major bases.
