SMALL BUSINESS EXCELLENCE Saving the planet, materials and dollars! Tungsten Structures
Tungsten Structures have won the Small Business Excellence Gold Award in this year’s Awards for Excellence for Specialised Value Engineering - Saving the planet, materials and dollars! Tungsten Structures were established in 2015 and have built their business by disrupting the engineering market by aligning their service offering to be sold on the quantifiable value they add to their clients’ projects upfront rather than the time it takes them to complete a project. This is a low-rise sector industry first approach that has seen the demand for their service soar, saved their clients tens of millions of dollars and eliminated from the environment over 11,400 tonnes of CO2 emissions (and counting!). Recognising that the building industry is saturated (with profit margins
constantly being squeezed) and the local manufacturing industry was struggling to compete against cheaper import materials, Tungsten Structures came up with a creative solution to respond to these challenges both for themselves and their clients. Tungsten Structure’s teams’ approach on projects is to take a step back, looking at the project with fresh eyes, without constraints, then meticulously putting the project back together with a much more efficient structural framing concept and construction methodologies. All whilst remaining in strict accordance with the “Principle’s Project Requirements”. Their innovative solution has seen Tungsten Structures create highly specialised, alternative yet conforming, efficient designs, that results in their clients saving significant dollars in the production of their
buildings and ultimately driving the demand for Tungsten Structure’s unique Value Engineering services. Tungsten Structures have created a unique and extremely sort after Value Engineering Service that is repeatedly delivering excellence to its clients through maximum construction cost savings, giving them an edge to compete against international import markets and the planet through reducing CO2 emissions which directly links to their community gifting program. They are to be congratulated on their continuing growth and are worthy winners of the 2020 Small Business Excellence Gold Award.
Judges’ Comments In what is a very competitive market for small businesses, the judges wish to congratulate Tungsten Structures for winning this year’s gold award for Small Business Excellence. They are to be congratulated for their entry, as the application of value engineering and embedding it into the design service to improve performance in a competitive market is excellent and should be commended. The judge’s called it an innovative approach for delivering optimised steel structures for low rise residential development, in a competitive space the firm’s team is to be congratulated for the work they do, and the assessment of the company of carbon neutrality is a nice way to display/illustrate the effects they have achieved by focusing on the concept of value engineering. A thoroughly deserving winner of this year’s Small Business Excellence Gold Award.
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