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Overview
Major Projects Canberra (MPC) was established in 2019. It is entrusted to plan and deliver transformative facilities and infrastructure across Canberra to support a growing and diversifying population. MPC also delivers property and asset management services to ACT Government owned and leased properties. This contributes to improving our liveability, enabling a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable city.
MPC works in close collaboration with our directorate partners across Government. Our staff specialise in project planning and delivery, contract administration and technical advice. We are responsible for an expansive capital works program that covers:
- delivery of complex infrastructure projects
- education emergency services and justice facilities
- health infrastructure upgrades including community health centres
- community assets including sport and arts facilities
- roads, highways and active travel infrastructure
- water sensitive urban design and stormwater upgrades
- cladding rectification programs.
Key roles
The Director General and the ACT Chief Engineer play a key role in shaping Canberra's infrastructure program and building the local engineering workforce.
Director General
The Director General leads MPC and reports to the Head of Service. They are directly accountable to the Treasurer and relevant Ministers.
ACT Chief Engineer and the Board of Engineering Excellence
Through the Board of Engineering Excellence, the ACT Chief Engineer engages with ACT Government partners in the engineering industry and peak engineering bodies. Their mission is to build productive relationships across the sector and ensure excellence in engineering in infrastructure projects across the Territory.
Find out more about the Chief Engineer and Board of Engineering Excellence
Key outputs
The key outputs MPC delivers include:
- procuring and delivering infrastructure projects classified by the ACT Government as major projects
- providing property, project and program management services to:
- support partner directorates delivery of capital works projects
- contribute to achieving aims of key ACT government policies
- maintain a number of government and non-government properties.
- delivering key support functions such as:
- a project management and reporting system (PMARS)
- administering prequalification schemes
- implementing the WHS Active Certification Policy.
Major projects
Projects that have significant complexity and scale are classified as major projects. MPC bears budget accountability for major projects and report directly to minister responsible for each project. There are currently four projects which has been classified as major projects. This includes:
- Canberra Hospital Expansion
- Light Rail to Woden
- CIT Woden Campus
- Canberra Theatre Centre Redevelopment.
Learn more about our major projects
Whole-of-government infrastructure
Projects that form part of the ACT Governments $14 billion infrastructure plan are listed in the projects pipeline.
Delivery is lead by a team of infrastructure project specialists. They provide a range of project management, procurement and planning support to partner directorates. This enables the delivery of key urban infrastructure such as schools, community facilities and health services.
Learn more about our infrastructure program
Property management
MPC delivers a range of property management services for properties owned or leased by the ACT Government. Services include:
- Strategic asset management
- Managing government and/or non-government properties and tenancies
- Managing Territory owned aquatic facilities and management contracts
- Providing access to a range of community venues across the ACT
- Property maintenance, upgrades and trade services.
Support functions
MPC includes several divisions that provide enabling services. These services are critical to project delivery and include:
- contractor pre-qualification
- industrial relations certification
- project management and reporting
- superintendency of works
- WHS Active Certification.
Learn more about our support functions