Wests Tigers Centre of Excellence

[BAGNF05]

Will it need to be rebuilt every two years with a new head builder employed? Same quality contractors though.

 

[hank37w]

Guessing it’s not. I saw somewhere it was being promoted to be at Lidcombe Oval now.

Construction looks a long way off on those photos.

So does our next win.

 

[GCfan]

Mate it has always been (in my time) the same. These builders go in on tight margins (2-3%) to win the job & then look to screw the subbies &client to pick up the extra margin.
When I was a CM, if we won a project I would be in the office the following Saturday & Sunday, with a PM, Estimator & a Contract Administrator; pouring over drawings, contracts looking for possible delays & variations. Then they would go to at least 10 subbies in each trade/supplier and smash them for a price.
Crap part of the industry, good for only very few.
I now run my own business in high-end Architectural residential and I am proud of my work.

Good on you. I’ve had plenty of experiences with Contract Administrators who were absolute assholes. I will say though that I’ve also experienced one of the big Commercial / Industrial builders who had every right to pull the contract out of the draw and bash us with it but chose to work with us to get back on program so not all are assholes.

 

[Merlot]

Wonder if the ground will be ready for the flegg game currently scheduled to be played there on the weekend...

Reliable source from the Forum says yes it will,who it was cant remember lol,

 

[stryker 69]

Good on you. I’ve had plenty of experiences with Contract Administrators who were absolute assholes. I will say though that I’ve also experienced one of the big Commercial / Industrial builders who had every right to pull the contract out of the draw and bash us with it but chose to work with us to get back on program so not all are assholes.

Ever worked with Lendlease Building?

 

[GCfan]

Ever worked with Lendlease Building?

Not as a subby but as a supplier why’s that?

 

[Merlot]

Theiss still going.if not .who did they fold into

 

[Pascoes_barber]

Guessing it’s not. I saw somewhere it was being promoted to be at Lidcombe Oval now.

Construction looks a long way off on those photos.

Oh well, there’s always next year.

 

[stryker 69]

Theiss still going.if not .who did they fold into

Yeah they’re about.
They are a part of CIMIC group.

 

[GCfan]

When you were talking about asshole CAs I immediately thought of those pricks.

No Adco and Hutchies

 

[BAGNF05]

Oh well, there’s always next year.

Isn’t that sentence a stitch up

 

[Tiger Woods]

Centre of excellence or rehabilitation centre 🤔

 

[JC99]

When's this thing gonna be open?

 

[tony soprano]

Guessing it’s not. I saw somewhere it was being promoted to be at Lidcombe Oval now.

Construction looks a long way off on those photos.

That'll be cool if it's on same time as cup

 

[Spartan117]

Hearing that along with the Centre being delayed, the Excellence is also very delayed, with no ETA.

That's funny

 

[Merlot]

They’re all the same. All head contractors are your best mate if they have managed the job well financially. However, if they bought the project on a tight margin or have had some sort of scope creep, you better believe they’ll lock themselves inside a boardroom and find ways to come after the subbies when it’s time for final claims.
I’ve been inside these rooms in a former life and the subbies who have done well out of the job are targeted first. Additionally, they’ll apply a cleaning bill to your final claim. I was on a Bovis project years ago and the PM sent out a $50k cleaning bill to each of the 35 subcontractors. Everyone had to just cop it. It added an easy $1.75mill to his bottom line. Time bars for variations is another way to get work done and then retroactively reject claims.

Builders are muthafkers.

the whole system 90;s on r mudders

 

[balmain boy]

Guessing it’s not. I saw somewhere it was being promoted to be at Lidcombe Oval now.

Construction looks a long way off on those photos.

The most recent photo was of the community focused building, not our Coe which is far more developed. But the rain keeps delaying everything

 

[hsvjones]

Shame its not ready yet as we could really use a professional facility now to show potential recruits ..

 

[twentyforty]

Is the hairdressing salon opened yet?

 

[innsaneink]

I have to be fair, I could not imagine working in a space where you have to be across every trade on every floor of a 15-20 floor development. That would send me to an early grave.

You'd think lots of things get missed eh?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pathetic shitty joints going up everywhere now last 10 15 years