NEED MORE?

Generators

NEED MORE?

Our brand new general-hire focused depot is now open!

Come around to 25 Cessnock Street and ask us how we can help. This purpose-built facility has everything you need, when you need more!

Air compressors, generators, tipper trucks, utes, lawnmowers, bobcats, loaders, concrete equipment, landscaping gear, wood-chippers, compactors, rollers, cherrypickers, portable toilets, general tools and more!

O’Neill and Brown Group’s DEEP ROOTS IN CANBERRA’S HISTORY

O’Neill and Brown Group is a family-owned business that has been operating in the Canberra Region for 54 years. The company began in Queanbeyan in 1960 as a partnership between plumbers Pat O’Neill and Tom Brown, specialising in residential projects.

In 1963, Pat and Tom took on their first apprentice, Tony Pantano, who went on to become the Managing Director of the company. On 8 May, 1969 the partnership created by Pat and Tom was incorporated into O’Neill and Brown Plumbing Company Pty Ltd. Sadly, Tom Brown unexpectedly passed away shortly thereafter, but Pat and Tony were determined to continue the vision the team had in the company’s early days.

O’Neill and Brown Plumbing Company’s first major project was a block of flats near the Lyneham Shops in Belconnen, resulting in work all over the ACT region, including early homes in Downer and on some of the early buildings at the Australian National University.

In 1977, O’Neill and Brown Plumbing Company won their first major commercial contract with Civil and Civic (now Lendlease Construction Pty Ltd) for the plumbing and drainage of Stage 2 of Woden Plaza. The contract was awarded personally by Mr. Dick Dusseldorp, the founder of Lendlease.

Upon successful completion of the Woden Plaza, O’Neill and Brown Plumbing Company began to establish itself as a major commercial plumbing and drainage contractor, with its reputation growing with each project. O’Neill and Brown Plumbing Company were then awarded six sections (over half) of the New Parliament House Project, a project which to this day remains the largest in the ACT region.

Now the next generation is leading the way with Tony’s son, Robert Pantano, now Managing Director along with Jeff Gare. Today, the plumbing company specialises primarily in commercial plumbing and drainage, but O’Neill & Brown have also expanded to add O’Neill & Brown Fire Service and O’Neill

& Brown Electrical Services companies to meet the demand from the industry, making the O’Neill & Brown Group (Plumbing, Fire & Electrical) one of the only full-service companies within the region.

O’Neill and Brown Plumbing Company have been involved in many landmark projects in the ACT and southern NSW region, including:

> Parliament House

> Australian National University

> National Museum of Australia

> Canberra Airport

> Canberra Centre

> National Portrait Gallery

> ACT Law Courts

> Calvary Hospital

> Willinga Park

> Constitution Place

> Republic Precinct

> ANU Research School of Physics

> Metropol Precinct

> East Gate Way

Much of the company’s success over the years has been due to extensive employee training, a hands-on management approach with and a high degree of staff loyalty. Tony Pantano once attributed the company’s success to staff input saying, ‘Every successful business is built on good employer-employee relationships. Our business is a team effort. Most of our crew have been with us for over 10 years. We have had three generations of one family working here.’

The sense of family, camaraderie and community has stayed with the company throughout its five decades of operation. O’Neill & Brown Plumbing Company co-founded the Menslink/GEOCON Stairclimb, which raises funds for the valuable services offered by Menslink. Thinking about how the event came about, Ray Burke (O’Neill & Brown Plumbing Company’s Construction Manager) says, ‘While construction was underway for High Society (currently the tallest building in Canberra) the plumbers would run the stairs and record their times in the site office. This fostered a positive site culture and some healthy competition. GEOCON became aware of our plumbers running the stairs and supported the activity hence the Menslink/GEOCON Annual Stairclimb was born.’

O’Neill & Brown Group (Plumbing, Fire & Electrical) are also partnering up with the Federal Golf Club and Vinnies Australia to deliver the inaugural O’Neill & Brown Sleepin’ Rough Invitational this year. This event was created to raise awareness and much-needed funds to help fight the ongoing issue of homelessness in the

Canberra region. Robert Pantano says of the event: “This new golf event is about bringing this issue to the front of people’s minds and asking for their support to help these families that are struggling in our very own backyard.”

Congratulations to O’Neill & Brown Plumbing Company for their decades of history in the Canberra region and for the success that lies ahead for the O’Neill & Brown Group (Plumbing, Fire & Electrical).