SA Boom, Defies Building Downturn
A surge of orders from South Australia’s mining, education, and commercial sectors has prompted Australia’s largest modular builder to open a new hire facility in Edinburgh Park, north of Adelaide.
The new 25,000m2 facility will give Ausco Modular increased capacity to construct, store, and dispatch its high-quality modular buildings, to service ongoing demand in the state.
Rob Wormald, Ausco Modular’s SA/NT/NSW Regional Manager, said the new hire facility would allow Ausco to respond much more quickly to clients’ classroom, office and accommodation needs.
“Off-site construction offers customers an instant building solution. Our new dedicated hire facility will improve our hire and manufacturing capabilities, allowing us to have a larger fleet of personalised buildings ready to dispatch immediately for our customers,” Mr Wormald said.
“By using modular construction, we can deliver customised buildings to our clients’ doorsteps before traditional construction would have even laid the building’s foundations,” he said.
Mr Wormald said demand for Ausco’s products and services had remained strong in South Australia, despite the economic downturn.
“During the past 12 months, we’ve delivered a 50-person mining accommodation hire village at Innaminka and we’ve delivered custom-built classrooms at Port Lincoln’s Navigator College and a 160-person mining accommodation village, located in the Eucla Basin, which is fully catered and includes several recreational facilities, including a gymnasium and a bar,” Mr Wormald said.
Mr Wormald said the diversity of Ausco’s work was the key to its ongoing success in South Australia.
“Where other companies have focused their attention on the mining boom, Ausco has continued to work across all markets, including the commercial, education, government, mining and construction sectors, just to name a few,” he said.
“We deliver a service which is well beyond just delivering a building; we deliver a complete modular accommodation solution for our customers which is fast and flexible,” Mr Wormald said.
Ausco’s new and existing facilities are designed to maximise water recycling and provide safer and more comfortable work environments for their people, who can now work undercover during the construction process.
