As one of the leading suppliers of contractors for the engineering, construction, building and maintenance industries, McConnell Dowell has been delivering outstanding end to end projects for the past 53 years. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Thiess
Thiess is a construction company with over 80 years of experience in the industry.
The company has overseen some of the biggest construction projects in this country, including Brisbane’s Airport Link and Boggo Road Busway, West Gate Freeway, EastLink and M80 Ring Road Upgrade in Victoria, and Sydney’s Epping to Chatswood Rail Line and Lane Cove Tunnel. Continue reading
Redline Group
Redline Group is a privately held civil engineering and construction organisation. The group was founded in 1997 and consists of a series of Australian and New Zealand companies. Continue reading
Northern Engineering & Technology Corporation, MCC
With over 60 years’ experience in iron-making technologies, Northern Engineering and Technology Corporation (NETC) has developed into a pioneer of the Chinese iron and steel industries. Continue reading
GHD
GHD is a privately held civil engineering organisation founded in Australia in 1928. The company has over 8,500 employees and more than 200 offices across Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. In 2013 GHD reached revenues of AUD$105 million. Continue reading
Managing FIFO
CUBS. It sounds like the name of a dodgy all male pop band who sang the one hit wonder “three on one off” back in the eighties while sporting flat tops, acid washed jeans, and snug denim jackets and crooning to their audience of ladies in big shoulder pads.
Fast forward 20 or so years and CUBS has become the acronym for “cashed up bogans” which is a common misnomer used in the media to refer to construction workers, technicians, trades assistants and other hard workers who sacrifice precious time with their families and friends for very high wages working fly in – fly out (FIFO) or drive in – drive out (DIDO) rosters which are typically a ratio of two, three or four weeks on site to one week off. Continue reading
