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AJG-001412-Feb17 Alternatively, visit our website at ajg.com.au/ccf Contents 02 From the President 28 CCF WA Industry & Training Awards David Della Bona Profiles of all finalists 04 From the CEO 42 Women in Civil Jeff Miller Georgiou Sue Wood 06 About CCF WA Branch Partners 44 Training CCF WA Board Civil Train 2017 Course Outline Short Course Calendar 10 Comment The facts on Roe 8 and 9 53 Contractor Members Directory 12 2016 in Review 64 Associate Members Directory 22 News 75 Equipment Hire Manual 24 Project Feature Enviro Infrastructure Cover picture and above: The Busselton Foreshore Development, delivered by Leeuwin Civil for the City of Busselton Jeff Miller Julie Luci Chief Executive Officer Operations Manager Phone: 0417 513 442 Phone: 0458 220 116 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Andy Graham Copyright Warning: All editorial and some Member Services Manager advertisements in this publication are subject Phone: 0458 737 777 to copyright and may not be reproduced in any form without the written authorisation of the Civil Contractors Federation Email: [email protected] managing editor. Offenders will be prosecuted. Western Australian Branch 70 Verde Drive Ashleigh Skipworth Jandakot, WA 6164 Events & Marketing Coordinator Phone: (08) 9414 1486 Phone: 9414 1486 Fax: (08) 9414 1496 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CCF WA ONSITE Yearbook Q1 2017 1 From the President Looking forward to the challenges ahead n behalf of the CCF WA board, welcome to 2017 John Hovey, Mike Reilly, Tim Ryan and Mick Unger – for their and thank you for continuing to support your ongoing support and guidance (and congratulations to Mick on Federation. his appointment as CCF National President). In my column in last year’s ONSITE Yearbook I Thanks too to our CEO, Jeff Miller and his team who are Opredicted 2016 would be a challenging year for our industry working hard on members’ behalf. and so it proved. CCF WA’s second WA Infrastructure Report, And finally, thanks again to all CCF WA members. Let’s launched late last year, did not provide us with much cause for continue to work together to maintain a strong, sustainable civil optimism for 2017 either. According to that report, prepared construction industry. for us by the infrastructure market forecasting experts at BIS Shrapnel, WA is in the midst of a ‘demand recession’. David Della Bona What that means is that State Final Demand (SFD) – which measures the total value of goods and services sold in the state CCF WA President and is therefore a true measure of economic activity – is, for the first time in a generation, in decline (or negative growth as the economists like to call it). SFD isn’t expected to reverse its current trend and start growing again until 2018. As a consequence of this, unemployment in WA is expected to continue rising, with the construction industry being one of the most affected. BIS Shrapnel says 40,000 construction jobs will be lost over three years (2015/16 - 2018/19). In these uncertain times, we intend that your industry group remains a constant, fulfilling its vital role as the voice of the industry to government and the community, providing education and information, and connecting members through events. While CCF WA has also had to make some adjustments in the light of economic realities, I can assure you that member services have not been compromised. Nor have we taken a backward step in our advocacy to government on behalf of the civil industry. We certainly have been heartened by the loyalty of our members. Almost 130 civil contractors are currently full members of CCF WA, only a few short of the peak attained during the boom. Associate membership numbers have also proved resilient even though the market for goods and services is very tough. One measure of the value in which CCF WA is held is the response to our awards programs, and in this respect, we are more than holding our own. We were pleasantly surprised to receive 21 entries for the 2016 CCF WA Earth Awards – five more then the previous high. And the 2016 CCF WA Industry & Training Awards attracted 39 entries, another record. As this column is being written, preparations are well underway for the President’s Dinner (February 17), at which the Industry & Training Awards winners will be announced. I’m looking forward to hosting the night and catching up with members. I would like to wrap up by extending sincere thanks to my fellow CCF WA board members – Vice President Steve Tennant, Honorary Treasurer Steve Pollard, Mark Armstrong, Stuart Buckby, 2 CCF WA ONSITE Yearbook Q1 2017 HITACHI WHEEL LOADERS JUST GOT BIG HITACHI ZW-5 WHEEL LOADERS. Big on fuel efficiency, operator comfort and reliability. With three of the biggest wheel loaders we’ve ever offered in Australia, the Hitachi ZW-5 family just got big. HITACHI WHEEL LOADERS. BUILT TO LAST. From the CEO Contracts must be honoured ith a State Election looming, the civil Infrastructure Australia recently noted that public ownership construction industry again finds itself as the ‘distorts outcomes, stifles competition and harms consumers’. unwilling meat in a political sandwich. IA has also called for greater government investment in The stakes are even higher this time, with the infrastructure, which was a key recommendation of CCF WA’s WOpposition promising to tear up a contract and halt a project recently released report, WA Infrastructure Report 2017: a that is already underway – Roe 8. construction economy in transition. CCF WA has written to Opposition leader Mark McGowan The Western Power sale would certainly help meet our future asking him to reconsider such a dangerous and unprecedented infrastructure challenges. However, we want to see the State (in this State at least) move. Government – backed by a Federal Government guarantee – We told Mr McGowan that CCF WA does not defend the immediately invest in more infrastructure. This is a message we largely uncoordinated approach to infrastructure planning by will continue to push, whatever the result of the State election. the current and previous State Governments, and we strongly support his plan to address this by establishing an independent Jeff Miller infrastructure advisory body (“Infrastructure WA”) that would provide coordinated, evidence-based information to assist CCF WA CEO government decide on infrastructure priorities. We made the point that the Roe 8 and Roe 9 projects have been shown by Federal independent advisory body Infrastructure Australia to have a positive cost-benefit analysis (IA has reported a “high level of confidence that the proposed solution will deliver net economic benefits”) and are therefore worthy of bipartisan support. So on the one hand, Labor is promoting the benefits to government of independent, expert infrastructure advice, while on the other it says it will cancel a project that has been endorsed by an independent, expert infrastructure advisor. Addressing the claim that it was irresponsible of the State Government to sign the Roe 8 contracts, we pointed out that the contracts were signed a full five months before the election and that the signing of the contract was just one step in a procurement process that began more than a year before that time. As members know all too well, government procurement processes involve a substantial investment in time and money by the companies tendering for the project. Once procurement on a project has begun, it should not be subject to political interference – such interference is unfair on the people and companies involved who have entered the process in good faith. For more on some of the myths surrounding Roe 8 and Roe 9, see my article on page 10. Another issue we believe should be receiving bipartisan support is the part-sale of Western Power, which would be an important step towards addressing Western Australia’s significant infrastructure deficit. Like Roe 8, debate on the Western Power sale has been clouded by myth and misinformation. Opponents of privatisation continue to make the false claim that power prices would rise, and have even gone as far as misrepresenting statements by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims, who has clarified that privatisation into a well-regulated market – as is intended in WA – should actually lower prices and be beneficial to consumers. 4 CCF WA ONSITE Yearbook Q1 2017 A NEW RANGE IS TAKING SHAPE FROM 1.7T–9.0T SMARTER. A NEW RANGE IS TAKING SHAPE FROMVISIT 1.7T–9.0T SMARTER. JCBCEA.COM.AU/MACHINES/MINI-EXCAVATORS VISIT FOR MORE INFORMATION STRONGER. JCBCEA.COM.AU/MACHINES/MINI-EXCAVATORS SAFER.STRONGER. 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