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Autumn

Newsletter

May 2019

Innovation - Passion - Professionalism In this issue

What’s Been Happening at Camco by Chris Goold - Director

Welcome again to another edition of the Camco Newsletter,

Autumn 2019. As summer quickly becomes a distant memory the

end of financial year is rapidly approaching. A traditionally hectic

time of year for the construction industry, 2019 is proving to be no

different. The end of financial year also signals the halfway mark

of the year (unbelievably!) and is a great opportunity to stop,

catch your breath and reflect of the year so far.

At Camco, this year has seen the completion of several long

running projects – we have cleared the congestion on West

Thebarton Road/Phillips Street and Brandis Road has just had the

last of the deeplift asphalt laid. Several projects are also

continuing into winter – Waterfall Gully, where helicopters have

been sighted delivering concrete and Apex Park/Lockleys Riding

Club come to mind. We are also managing several land division

sites, both brown fields and green fields, which should see the new

financial year start off on a solid footing.

So, happy reading and happy

new-financial year!

News from Inside the

Camco Office…

Read about some of the exciting

in-house news.

Inner Sanctum…

Get to know our HSEQ Coordinator,

Darren Hann.

Prequalification's, Panels and

Accreditations…

See the panel’s and entities that

Camco are working with.

In the Community...

A quick look at how Camco is helping

supporting the local community.

Camco Management

System Update…

System Manager, Marco Puz gives us

an update.

Crossing the Finish Line…

Read about the completion of one of

our recent major projects at

Thebarton.

In the Works…

Take a look at some of the projects we

are currently engaged in.

What’s Coming Up…

What projects that are on the horizon

for Camco?

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Camco Autumn Newsletter | May 2019

News from Inside the Camco Office With Autumn on its last legs you can say its been a crazy season of

weather. With winter right on our door step we will all be pulling

out the warm jackets and scarves sooner rather than later.

Since summer we have had a few changes in the office. We would

like to welcome Teearna Dios-Brun to the team, she is our new

Reception/Admin Officer. Teearna is new to the construction

industry and has a great enthusiasm to learn. She has been a wonderful

addition to our office.

Sam Piotrowski and Greg Davey have both had a shift in job roles, with Sam now the Construction Manager

and Greg the Estimating Manager. With their long combined history at Camco, we know that they will

continue to successfully lead our team into the future.

We would like to also recognise 2 of our staff members who have been with us for a while. Our System

Manager, Marco Puz celebrated his 7 years of service and Ben Harford, one of our Leading Hands, is

celebrating his 10 years at Camco. We are truly grateful to those who have chosen to stay with Camco for

such long periods of time and we are always excited to celebrate these milestones with each and every one

of them. As the year goes on, we also have to say goodbye to a dear friend. After 9 years with Camco,

Chris Henshall will be leaving us to enjoy his well deserved retirement. Chris will be greatly missed and we

wish him all the best on this new journey in his life.

On a happy note, we want to congratulate Ashlee Trimmer on her recent engagement to her partner Dillon.

They will be tying the knot next June and we wish them all best in this new chapter in their lives.

Camco family member since? June 2016

Family Life? Married to Kylie in 2003. 4 children, Taylah (25) Brook (22),

Tyson (12) and Maddison (10).

Favourite food? Any type of seafood and BBQ’s.

Favourite past time? Playing golf, fishing and watching AFL.

Loves? Riding his Harley Davison motorcycle.

Best place travelled? Likes holidays in Bali and enjoyed working in Cape

York & Torrens Straits.

Looking forward to? Attending this years Melbourne Cup for the first time.

Best thing about working at Camco? Never a dull moment, with many

varied tasks and working with great people.

Inner Sanctum Every team member at Camco is important, we would not be successful

without everyone’s continued hard work and dedication. Darren has

been an important part of our construction team since 2016. Get to know

a little more about one of the amazing staff members here at Camco.

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Prequalification’s, Panels & Accreditations

Camco is prequalified to conduct works for the following organisations and

Government bodies.

Camco Core Values Innovation

We are determined to continually enhance the way we operate

be it on site or in the office by challenging how we do things to

find better, more effective and efficient solutions. This creates an

environment to lead in innovative thinking and creative problem

solving. There is no innovation without taking initiatives – we strive

to be one step ahead.

Passion

We dedicate our energy and aspiration to exceed our clients’

needs and

expectations. A successful passionate environment creates trust

in confident decisions and positive actions in line with our vision,

which reinforces belief in Camco.

Professionalism

We constantly strive for and deliver outstanding services, which

will make us our client’s number one choice.

Organisation Prequalification Type Categories

City of Burnside Minor Civil Works & Building

Maintenance Earthworks/Flood Mitigation, Pipes, Pumps & Concrete

Products & Stormwater

City of Mitcham Major Civil Works Minor Civil Works

General Building & Maintenance

All All

Building Work

City of Onkaparinga General Civil Works All

City of Salisbury Minor Civil Works & Building

Maintenance Carpentry, Earthworks/Flood Mitigation, Minor Building &

Civil Works, Pipes, Pumps & Concrete Products

City of West Torrens Minor Civil Works & Building

Maintenance All

Department of Planning, Transport

& Infrastructure

AGFMA/Facilities Services

General Building Contractor Trade Contractor – Civil Work

Roads & Bridges Preferred Contractor

GB1, GB2, F15 R2, B1, F15

Breakdown & Preventative Maintenance

District Council of Mount Barker Minor Civil Works Level 2

JLL Preferred Subcontractor Maintenance & Repairs for the Golden Grove Village

Shopping Centre

Barossa Regional Procurement

Group Minor Civil Works

Paving (including Bluestone, Clay and Concrete

Segmental), Concrete Works, Pavement Construction &

Maintenance, Stormwater Construction & Maintenance &

Pipeline Maintenance SA Water Construction Services Tiers 2 and 3

Spotless Preferred Subcontractor Carpentry and Multi-trade

Town of Walkerville Asset Management Panel Civil Works Panel

All All

UniSA Prequalified Contractor Category 2

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Dates to Remember Just a reminder about a few dates that are

coming up for our site and office staff.

June

10 Queens Bday

June

7 Site RDO

August

2 Site RDO

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In the Community

Camco is focussed on forming and maintaining strong ties within the

community. We feel that it is important as a South Australian owned and

operated company that we are involved in the community that we are a

part of.

Camco sponsors local sporting clubs and supports a variety of charity

organisations. We are proud to currently be supporting the Glenunga

Football Club, Glenunga Cricket Club and the Onkaparinga Rugby Union Football Club.

At the end of March the Glenunga Cricket Club Under 14 years won their division finals, all of us at Camco

were thrilled to hear about the boys win.

Website

In the past few months the business development team has been

working hard to give our website a much needed update.

With a refreshed new look and updated content, we would love for

you to take a look. Any feedback is welcome!

www.camco.com.au

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Camco Management System (CMS)

Update by Marco Puz Following on from the information in the previous newsletter, the response

from site personnel to the series of toolbox meetings conducted in the last few

months has been extremely positive. The number of “close calls” reported

(often referred to as “near misses”) has significantly increased. The statistics

to the left shows the percentage of incidents reported by type for the 2019

year to date.

While the most significant incident type by far is property damage, reporting

of close calls has more than doubled from last year. This is important because

it’s the close calls that provide insight into incidents that can result in more

serious outcomes, which in turn allows everyone the opportunity to identify the

risks and minimise the probability of such an incident occurring. The focus on

reporting close calls will continue throughout the rest of the year.

It’s also important to note that Camco has not experienced any

environmental incidents year to date. In fact, there have not been any

environmental incidents for well over 3 years, one minor incident 3 years ago

involving sand flowing into a creek during heavy rains, and no significant

environmental incidents since Camco commenced operations in 2001.

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Statistics

8%

Procedural Failure

17%

Close Call

17%

Injury

Traineeships

Camco has recently employed a new site crew member through the

“Training & Employment Initiatives (Works Program)”. The person will

remain with Camco for the duration of the contract and if

available, may secure a longer-term position with Camco as have

4 other people from similar initiatives in the past.

We are proud to support local jobseekers in

this way and will continue to work with clients

on similar initiatives to provide training,

upskilling and experience for people

interested in joining the civil construction

industry in South Australia.

58% Property Damage

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West Thebarton Road and Phillips Street - Road Upgrade and Streetscape

City of West Torrens

Project Manager: Chris Goold

Site Manager: Dan Schultz / Matthew Tomney

Completed: March 2019

Construction Period: 47 Weeks

Project Value: $5,700,000

Project Scope:

With such large works having to be undertaken, this

project was broken down into two stages. The first

stage took place on West Thebarton Road, Thebarton with the upgrade of the

road and associated streetscape works. Stage 2 was on Phillips Street taking the upgrade from South Road

to Port Road.

The project scope included detailed service investigation and survey, environmental soil classification,

installation of 1500m of directional drilled common service trench, kerb removal and replacement,

adjustment of existing service pits, footpath reconstruction with new block paving, exposed aggregate

concrete driveways, stormwater works (including construction of approximately 500m of stormwater

drainage works, up to 4.5m deep), deep lift pavement reconstruction, block paved side street intersections,

irrigation and electrical design and installation, soft landscape works and ancillary landscape structures.

Problem Solving:

Service locating and potholing prior to

construction of new stormwater allowed us to

redesign the stormwater to optimise trench

excavation and identify service clashes not

picked up in original design. This significantly

reduced construction cost, unexpected

delays due to service clashes and time to

install.

Work Health & Safety:

Two-way and pedestrian traffic was

successfully managed with site personnel and

traffic controllers while works onsite were

being undertaken.

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Crossing the Finish Line! Its is always a great feeling when you can finish off a project, and

particularly one that you have been working on for a while. This

project at West Thebarton was a fantastic opportunity for Camco

to show its ability to manage and construct a major arterial road

and streetscape upgrade.

We are immensely happy with the outcome and the many months

of hard work really paid off.

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Camco Autumn Newsletter | May 2019

In the works Camco is always keeping busy with projects continuing

throughout this Autumn season. Have a quick look at a few of

the projects we are currently working on.

Morphettville Urban Renewal - Stage 4

Renewal SA

Construction of a multi-stage (stage 4) urban renewal project in the former

Morphettville housing trust site, facilitating higher density dwellings through

land subdivision. The project scope includes bulk earthworks, retaining wall

construction, fencing, stormwater drainage, construction of 3 new roads,

sewer and water extension, common service installation, footpaths, kerb

adjustments and road re-sheeting.

Project Manager: Regan Moyne

Site Manager: Dan Schultz

Expected Completion: October 2019

Diment Road, Salisbury North - Road Upgrade - Stage 3

City of Salisbury

Road reconstruction of Diment Road is located between Hawker to Helps Road.

Including re-kerbing, full road reconstruction of 2 x 4m lane widths,

reinstatement of driveways & stormwater installation.

Project Manager: Greg Davey

Site Manager: Michael Bruggemann

Expected Completion: June 2019

Waterfall Gully to Mt Lofty Summit - Trail Restoration - Stage 2

Department of Environment and Water

Remedial works and upgrade of the existing walking trail from Waterfall Gully to

Mount Lofty Summit in the Cleland Conservation Park. The project scope includes

remedial works to eroded creek bank and slope slippages, removal of failed

pavement surfaces, re-shaping to form improved drainage lines, granular

pavement construction, formation and placement of approx. 3km of exposed

aggregate reinforced concrete paved trail surface (combined stages),

construction of new boardwalk, renewal of existing timber decking and minor

masonry works along the existing trail route.

Project Manager: Greg Davey

Site Manager: David Rawson/Shaun O’Keefe

Expected Completion: December 2019

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What’s coming up With winter drawing near we are looking forward to another productive

season, so take a look towards the future and see some of the projects on the

horizon for Camco.

Building Renewal Program

City of Salisbury

Camco has been engaged by City of Salisbury to upgrade a group of sites.

1. St Kilda Interpretive Centre in the Mangrove Walk - The scope is to upgrade the ramps to be DDA

compliant, repair the existing deck structure, replace the existing decking with recycled composite fibre

decking, install new balustrade fencing and handrails and re-painting of the exterior.

2. Croquet Clubrooms - The scope is to replace the roof, repair the external render, and renovate the

interior of the clubrooms with new joinery and fresh paint.

3. Skate Park Toilet - The scope is to renovate the toilet block with a sandblasting of the existing graffiti

covered building, replace the metal clad doors, stainless steel toilet and hand basin fixtures. The toilet

block will be painted black as a base for some fresh graffiti street art that is to be commissioned by the

council.

Starting: May 2019

Lower Hermitage Road

Adelaide Hill Council

The widening of Lower Hermitage Road to increase the carriage width to 2 lanes. The project

scope includes bulk excavation of the existing verge batter, earthworks to construct a new

lane on the inside of the existing carriageway, granular pavement construction, spray seal

surfacing, linemarking and fencing. The intersection of Miller Road also is to be widened and

new headwalls placed.

Starting: June 2019

Blackwood Roundabout

City of Mitcham

Construction of a new traffic calming roundabout on

Coromandel Parade Blackwood. The project scope includes kerbing

works to widen the existing radii, construction of new concrete

annulus, tying in existing footpaths, signage and verge treatments.

Starting: May 2019