Case Studies

How to make sense of qualitative data, community feedback, and stakeholder surveys Planning to run a stakeholder survey or collect valuable community feedback? Let’s cover some of the basics, including why stakeholder surveys are a ...

Epping Forest District Council has been working to produce a new up-to-date Local Plan, which will set out the plans and policies to guide development in Epping Forest District up until 2033. The Draft Local Plan was published ...

Infrastructure Victoria is an independent statutory authority that provides expert advice and guides decision-making on Victoria’s infrastructure needs and priorities. Infrastructure Victoria plays an important role in identifying and prioritising Victoria’s long-term infrastructure needs. Having ...

$16 million was allocated for a second road over rail bridge in Gunnedah to provide a route for heavy vehicles and address local traffic congestion issues due to the coal trains causing delays at level ...

The Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline (TANAP) is a mega project which aims to bring natural gas produced from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz-2 gas field, and other areas of the Caspian Sea, primarily to Turkey, but also on to ...

The Metro Tunnel is a $10.9 billion mega project that will start the transformation of Melbourne’s rail network into an international-style metro system. It is a critical city-shaping project and the largest overhaul of Melbourne’s public transport ...

  TAC 2020 Strategy In 2016 the TAC announced a new strategy to restore Victoria’s status as the global leader in road safety and to provide world-leading care for people hurt on the roads. TAC ...

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. In Brazil, Shell employs around 1,000 people and is involved in several business areas. Parque das Conchas (BC-10), located off the coast of Rio de ...

The Level Crossing Removal Project is a $6 billion mega project which will remove 50 of the most dangerous and congested level crossings across Melbourne over eight years. Removing these level crossings will transform the way people ...

Hydro is a global aluminium company. Based in Norway, the company has 13,000 employees involved in activities in more than 40 countries on all continents. Brazil is Hydro’s main source of the important raw material bauxite and ...

Canada Health Infoway helps to improve the health of Canadians by working with partners to accelerate the development, adoption and effective use of digital health across Canada. Canada’s Digital Health Innitiatives Digital health refers to the use ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund (SMF) facilitates and invests in initiatives that create economic and environmental value. Unique in Australia, SMF supports building owners, businesses, investors and local councils to improve asset value, develop new enterprises, improve ...

Lake Macquarie is located on the east coast of Australia and one of the largest cities in New South Wales. Lake Macquarie City Council provides the community with a diverse range of products and services ...

Aldi have an ambitious UK investment and development program. Aldi are always looking for sites with a catchment population in excess of 10,000 and ideally situated on principal roads with prominent road frontage. Public Consultation ...

Located about 220 kilometres offshore Western Australia, Ichthys represents the largest discovery of hydrocarbon liquids in Australia in 40 years. Three mega projects rolled into one The Ichthys LNG Project is currently in construction and ...

Brisbane is the largest local government in Australia with 26 wards and 27 councillor positions. Brisbane City Council (BCC) invests in major transport infrastructure projects, local road projects and public transport initiatives to tackle congestion ...

Peel Energy is at the forefront of delivering low carbon energy for the UK. Peel Energy has a balanced portfolio in generation or development including wind, tidal and hydro power, solar power and biomass. The ...

Townsville is located about halfway between the tip of Cape York and Brisbane. The Townsville City Council has recently entered the City Deal with the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government to deliver a 15 ...

The White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project was a proposal to build a new, state-of-the-art 448 MW (gross) ultra-supercritical oxy-fuel coal-fired power plant. The project was to be delivered by Capture Power Limited, a ...

Organised in two regions: Nordic and Continental/UK, Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers of electricity and the largest producer of heat. In the UK, Vattenfall owns six wind farms totalling 612MW in operation and ...

TEAM2100 is the UK Environment Agency’s 10-year program to refurbish and replace tidal flood defences in London and the Thames estuary. TEAM2100 aims to improve tidal flood defences in London, Kent and Essex from 2015 ...

NDIS is a new jointly funded program which largely replaces and enhances existing disability support services provided by the Commonwealth and the States. When fully implemented in 2019-20 the cost of the NDIS is projected ...

The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) creates transport solutions for a thriving New Zealand.  NZTA achieves this through four core business functions: Planning the land transport networks Investing in land transport Managing the state highway ...

Queensland Mental Health Commission (QMHC) were set up under the Queensland Mental Health Act 2013. The Commission’s job is to drive ongoing reform towards a more integrated, evidence-based, recovery-oriented mental health and substance misuse system. QMHC ...

Prior to selecting Darzin as their Stakeholder Management Software, the Queensland Department of State Development (DSD) was using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Over time the underlying application and database technologies became obsolete and unsupported by ...

An Alliance between Barwon Water, GHD and John Holland was formed in July 2009. Over its five-year life, the alliance was responsible for more than 120 projects work AU$375 million. This was the most ambitious ...

When the NSW State Government started consultation on their draft plan for the State, they expected to get a large volume of public submissions and feedback, across a huge range of issues. Thousands of people sent in ...

Airds Bradbury Renewal Project Airds Bradbury is a public housing estate in south west  Sydney recognised as a seriously disadvantaged area. Weekly household incomes in the area are less than the half the Sydney average; ...

In 2004 when the Department of Planning was preparing a Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney they started using Darzin Stakeholder CRM to manage the feedback and info line process. They had been using spreadsheets – individual spreadsheets used ...

Rosia Montana is a community of sixteen villages located in a district known as the Golden Quadrilateral, in the South Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania, Romania. Rosia Montana Gold Mine Project The Golden Quadrilateral has been ...

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was required for a large-scale mining development application in a remote area in the Pacific Islands. As part of the EIA, a comprehensive community consultation program was undertaken to disclose project information and gather ...

Nautilus Mineral is the first company to commercially explore the seafloor for massive sulphide systems, a potential source of high grade copper, gold, zinc and silver. The world’s first seafloor copper-gold project, Solwara 1, is ...

Xstrata is one of the world’s largest global diversified mining businesses. Xstrata Coal and Xstrata Copper have been running mining operations in North QLD over the last decades. Darzin is being used as a stakeholder ...

Auckland’s Clear Harbour Alliance, a jointly funded project by Metrowater and Auckland City Council that involved engineering companies Opus International Consultants, GHD and contractor Downer EDI Works was recognised as a Highly Commended Team of ...

The Northern Sewerage Project (NSP) involved the construction of 13 km of new sewer tunnels from Reservoir to Pascoe Vale. These new sewer tunnels located deep beneath Melbourne’s densely populated northern suburbs. NSP was a ...

Leighton Contractors and its alliance partners were contracted to design and construct 5.6 kilometres of Windsor Road, one of Sydney’s most congested arteries. Two sections of Windsor Road were widened to improve traffic flow and ...

EastLink is a $2.5 billion mega project connecting Melbourne’s eastern and south-eastern suburbs between the existing Eastern, Monash and Peninsula Freeways. Infrastructure Project: Eastlink, Victoria – Thiess John Holland The toll road includes 39 kilometres of roadway, ...

Ausgrid has been delivering one of Australia’s largest infrastructure programs over five years which aimed to renew and replace the nation’s largest network of electricity substations, poles and wires ( cost: $8 billion). Key investments: ...

Ergon Energy is an electricity retailer to homes and businesses in regional Queensland. $5.6 billion capital works investment took place in the five-year period from 2011-2016. The investment aimed to deliver a significant increase in ...

The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) is a NSW Government agency created under the Sydney Water Catchment Management Act 1998, becoming operational on 2 July 1999. The SCA manages and protects Sydney’s drinking water catchments and catchment ...

Remediation work valued at approximately $100M was commenced by Thiess Services, on the former Lednez/Union Carbide site and adjacent area of Homebush Bay on the Rhodes Peninsula in Sydney. Thiess Services was working in close ...