The Australian Ugliness, architect and critic Robin Boyd wrote in 1960, incorporated the “background ugliness” of Australia’s cities: a suburbia of: … unloved veneer villas and wanton little shops, and big worried factories. These are the kinds of suburban places that...
Queensland is about to introduce a new state payment scheme for subcontractors, a move that South Australia should monitor closely after the collapse of Homestead Homes. The system means they would be paid in full and on time and analysis by Deloitte has found it...
Nick Xenophon was interviewed this week on ABC Radio National about supporting the Governments Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) Bills. In the interview he discusses how part of the negotiation will involve providing greater protection to...
Having a trade sub contractors license gives tradies and customers protection if things go wrong. The SA Government has recently started promoting ways consumers can verify that their tradies are licensed, and has set up a website to ‘dob in a tradie’ So...
Bob Day’s founding Homestead Homes business sold Queensland’s Metro Property Development has bought the founding business of Bob Day’s collapsed building empire by Simon Evans The first of the assets from the collapsed Bob Day home building empire,...
891 ABC Adelaide By Brett Williamson Originally posted 13 Jul 2016, 3:18pm Built in 1884, The Marine Terraces at Grange Beach are the only three-storey Victorian-styled terraces ever built on Australia’s coastline. The block of eight are only one-third of what...
Our course guide for 2017 can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: 2017 course guide . Courses offered included our popular Cert II in Construction CPC20112 Pre-apprenticeship course, dates for the sub-contractors license course, and information on our...
A proposal to make it unlawful for a head contractor to attempt to bully or intimidate a subcontractor out of using the Security of Payment Act has been put forward in South Australia under a review of security of payment legislation in that state being conducted by...
Ever wondered about the building opposite the new Adelaide Oval? The prestigious white Torrens Drill Hall is celebrating its 80th year this year. To mark the occasion, 891 ABC Adelaide took a tour of the site, which was previously used for a quarry and rubbish dump....
FCTA – Building Careers runs a series of short courses for existing tradespeople to increase their skills. Lots of the courses have cross over skills, bricklayers usually have the hand skills to pick up acrylic rendering quickly. Tilers who have only worked on...
