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- Downer EDI Limited is an integrated infrastructure services provider specializing in engineering, construction, maintenance, and facilities management across Australia and New Zealand. The company delivers essential services in transport including road network management, routine road maintenance, asset management systems, spray sealing, asphalt laying, rollingstock manufacturing, rail infrastructure such as earthworks, track construction, signalling, bridges, airports, ports, light rail operations via Keolis Downer, automated fare collection, and intelligent transport systems; utilities encompassing power and gas network planning, design, construction, maintenance, water lifecycle solutions for municipal and industrial users, wastewater treatment, network rehabilitation, renewable energy projects, and telecommunications with civil construction, electrical, fibre, copper, and radio network deployment; mining and resources featuring contract mining, civil projects, blasting services via Downer Blasting Services, and mineral processing equipment design and manufacture via subsidiaries like Mineral Technologies; energy including transmission towers, substations, and non-process infrastructure maintenance; and facilities management such as technical engineering, asset maintenance, shutdowns, turnarounds, outages, refrigeration, catering, hospitality, cleaning, security, and electronic solutions; defence base services; and industrial engineering. Headquartered in North Ryde, Sydney, Australia, with key operations in Auckland, New Zealand, Downer EDI employs over 30,000 people and traces its origins to Downer and Company founded in 1933 in Wellington, New Zealand, incorporating as Downer EDI Limited in 1989 and listing on the ASX in 1990. Recent developments include the 2023 divestiture of its Australian Transport Projects business to Gamuda, enhancing focus on core segments; a September 2025 $3 billion contract award for comprehensive base services to the Australian Department of Defence across New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, and Queensland, building on an 80-year partnership; and a November 2025 $750 million contract from Chevron Australia for maintenance and support services at Wheatstone and Gorgon facilities in Western Australia over up to 15 years.