Project Owner: Housing NSW
Project Value: $3,000,000,000
Project Status: 90% Construction underway. Majority of Stage 1 and 2 due for completion end 2010
Location: NSW, Australia

Project Overview - New Construction

The Australian Government is investing $2 billion as part of its Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan to deliver around  6,500 social housing homes in NSW by June 2012. On top of this, the NSW Government is investing $1 billion to deliver an additional 3,000 homes. This investment is already having a positive impact on communities by securing jobs across NSW. 
Nine firms have been appointed to act as Development Project Managers to work with Housing NSW to deliver around 6,000 new social housing homes under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan. These firms are managing the delivery of our development projects across the state right through to completion, reporting to Landcom and Housing NSW.

Area Contractor Contact

Western NSW - Arup T: 02 9320 9320
Sydney - Australia Pacific Projects (APP) T: 02 9957 6211
Hunter Valley / Newcastle - Bovis Lend Lease T: 02 9236 6111
Northern NSW / New England - Capital Insight T: 02 9955 2300
Sydney - Coffey Projects T: 02 9287 2100
Sydney - Crown T: 02 9252 4420
Sydney - McLachlan Lister T: 02 9241 7328
Southern NSW / Illawarra - Thinc T: 02 9256 4700
Sydney and Central Coast - TSA T: 02 9276 1400

Contractors, tradespeople and building manufacturing suppliers looking for work can contact these firms directly or register with ICN to b notified when opportunities arise.

Project Overview - Maintenance

The Australian Government has also allocated $130 million for the periods 2008/09 and 2009/10 to reduce the backlog of maintenance and upgrade 31,000 social housing homes. The NSW Government will supplement this by
bringing forward $200 million and Housing NSW will contribute $140 million from existing budget for 2009/10. This is reducing wait times for maintenance and repairs and ensuring social housing homes are brought up to a consistent maintenance standard.
Housing NSW has six approved maintenance contractors to carry out maintenance, repairs and upgrades to Housing NSW properties.
 
Area Contractor Contact

Spotless T: 02 9816 9200 - Sydney Inner City, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Southern Suburbs, Macarthur, Southern Highlands, Wollongong North, Wollongong South
Transfield Services T: 02 8863 6000 - Bankstown, Parramatta, Hills, Liverpool, Fairfield, Northern Suburbs, Newcastle, Hunter Valley, North Coast, South Coast, Southern Tablelands
Central Coast Lake Maintenance T: 02 4351 7477 - Blacktown, Mt Druitt
Programmed Maintenance Services T: 02 9748 7088 - St Marys, Blue Mountains
RTC Facilities Maintenance T: 02 4914 0200 - New England, North West NSW, Bathurst, Orange
PJS Building T: 02 6962 6083 - Far West, Riverina

Contractors, tradespeople and building manufacturing suppliers looking for work can contact these firms directly or register with ICN to b notified when opportunities arise.

Project Update

- As at July 2010 some 75 percent of homes under Stage 1 are now complete and close to 90 percent of homes under Stages 1 and 2 of the program have begun construction. The majority of these homes will be rolled out by Housing NSW before the end of 2010.
- ICN continues to support the project by identifying competitive trades and services for projects especially in regions where shortages have been identified. Particularly in regional areas ICN has assisted local trades to participate in these projects especially in instances where shortages have been identified.

Role of Industry Capability Network (NSW) Ltd

The Industry Capability Network (NSW) Ltd has been engaged by Housing NSW to assist the Development and Project Management firms with the delivery of the Housing NSW projects by identifying capacity in the regions and to  ensure these local and regional companies are given full, fair and reasonable opportunity to participate in the projects.

The Industry Capability Network (NSW) Ltd has consultants located in each of the regions nominated in NSW who act as representatives of local industry. Their specialist knowledge of their region and the local capacity will serve to benefit local industry and the Housing NSW projects.

Expected outcomes of ICN’s activities include reduced whole life of project costs, reduced lead times, maximisation of the local industry participation and through these activities provide greater economic benefit to the local economy.

Registration with ICN

If you are interested in registering your products, services and capabilities with the ICN please complete the registration form by clicking register at top left in links. Provide as much information as possible and select submit. The data will be stored in ICN Gateway and used in confidence only by ICN consultants throughout Australia and New Zealand when seeking competitive Australian made products and services for local projects, for import replacement and for export.

Important Note: Registering on this site is not a guarantee of work.