2017 Membership Anniversaries Master Builders ACT recognised long-standing memberships of the Association at the recent 2017 Annual Dinner. The following members attended and their success story was shared with representatives from local industry.
50 YEARS
35 YEARS
HOLCIM
BELCONNEN CONCRETE
Holcim has been serving the Canberra region since the early 1950’s, originally serving the ACT and Southern N.S.W. region under the well-known Readymix and Humes brands.
Belconnen Concrete is a family run business which opened in 1970. It was the first company in Canberra to integrate pumping, placing and finishing of concrete works and its concrete pump fleet includes some of the newest and largest of its kind in the country.
From its two modern concrete plants located in Fyshwick and Mitchell and from a fleet of 28 concrete mixer trucks, Holcim supplies aggregate, sand, ready mix concrete, and concrete pipe to the local construction market. Holcim offers a specialised range of decorative concrete and high performance concretes which have been utilised to build some of Canberra’s most iconic buildings like Parliament House, Telstra Tower, The National Gallery, Nishi Building and Canberra Airport to name a few. From their 2 quarry operations at Cooma Road hard rock quarry and Bungendore sand quarry, Holcim provides quality material and gravels for a diverse range of civil and construction projects like the current Federal Highway duplication at Lake George, Majura Parkway and the ACT Light Rail project. Through their contracting operations Holcim’s experience and capability has also been instrumental in supporting such complex projects as the Googong Dam upgrade and the Joint Operations Headquarters at Bungendore. Locally, the business employs over 60 staff and contractors, and utilises the specialist services of over 40 other preferred suppliers.
Under the direction of Joe and Kay Spinelli, the business has grown from working on small residential projects to now pumping, placing and finishing an estimated one hundred and fifty thousand cubic metres of concrete on large scale commercial projects every year. In the past twenty years Joe and Kay’s children – Carmela, Andrew and Chris – have taken a more active role in the business. With a focus on in-house training to build highly skilled employees, Belconnen Concrete offers a quality guarantee through their delivery of best practice methods. Belconnen Concrete is the concrete pump, place and finish company of choice for significant Australian landmark projects including the National Archives, National Museum, Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia. Projects currently underway include ANU Student Accommodation, the Highgate Apartments in the City, the Lyneham Public Housing Project, the Koben Apartments in Campbell and the Monaro Mall Redevelopment.
MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION NEWS EDITION 4 2017
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