Broadspectrum

Broadspectrum

Type	corporation
Industry	Infrastructure maintenance services
Founded	2001 (Listing on ASX)
Founder	Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC
Headquarters	North Sydney, Australia
Area served	Australia, Canada, Chile, New Caledonia, Philippines, India, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, United States
Key people	Paul McClintock AO (Chairman) Fidel Lopez (MD & CEO) Vince Nicoletti (CFO)
Services	Operations, maintenance, and asset and project management services
Revenue	A$3.208 billion (2011)
Operating income	A$3.295 billion
Net income	(A$20 million)
Total assets	A$2.267 billion
Total equity	A$1.124 billion
Number of employees	19,000
Subsidiaries	APP, Easternwell, ICD.
Website	broadspectrum.com

Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services Ltd. (TSE), was an Australian publicly listed corporation, until June 2016 when it was acquired by Ferrovial. It provides operations and maintenance, asset management, project and capital management outsourcing and infrastructure development services to the resources and industrial, infrastructure services and property and facilities management sectors. The Company operates in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Chile, Brunei, New Caledonia, and The Philippines.

Broadspectrum operates across diverse industries, including property and facilities management (i.e offshore detention camps for refugees ), defence, transport (including road, rail and public transport), utilities (including water, power, and telecommunications), and mining and chemical processing and hydrocarbons. Broadspectrum's clients include major national and international companies, as well as all levels of government.

Broadspectrum was known as Transfield Services until 2015. The origins of Transfield Services Ltd. can be traced to 1956 when Transfield Pty. Ltd. was founded in Australia by an Italian-born immigrant electrical engineer, Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, who was joined soon after by a former colleague from EPT (Electric Power Transmission, an offshoot of Milan-based Societa' Anonima Elettrificazione, which was constructing powerlines), Carlo Salteri. The logo of Transfield Services, designed by Belgiorno-Nettis, reflected its electricity industry origins; it was intended to represent a high-voltage transmission tower, with an accompanying red electrical spark.

Together Saltieri and Belgiorno-Nettis built Transfield into one of Australia's most successful companies focused on major engineering projects, such as bridges, tunnels, dams, hydro-electric and coal power stations, oil rigs, concert halls, sugar mills and power lines. Included in their list of achievements are the construction of the Gateway Bridge in Brisbane and the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. By the early 1980s, Transfield had in excess of 3,000 employees and an annual turnover of A$350 million; and within five years grew to be the biggest engineering firm in south-east Asia. The Company acquired the Williamstown Dockyard in Melbourne and, in 1989 after winning a A$6 billion contract to build ten ANZAC class frigates for the Australian and New Zealand governments, the largest defence contract in Australia at the time. When visiting Australia in 1986 Pope John Paul II toured the Transfield factory located at Seven Hills.