Month: November 2016

Melbourne’s Monash University Gets a Facelift

BMPX (Brookfield Multiplex) won the contract to overhaul building B17 “Innovative Walk”. Gallery Commercial were awarded the contract to supply the GRC cladding for the project. The design is by Rickard Engineering with supply by Polysources from Guangdong, China. Charles Rickard visited Polysources in August 2016. He was pleased to report to the BMPX team […]

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National Bank of Oman

Al Turki Enterprises of Muscat, Oman contracted Rickard Engineering to design the “GRC wall cladding and balustrades” for the new National Bank of Oman (NBO) in Muscat, Oman. Charles Rickard visited Oman in May 2016. Concept designs were prepared in June with formal approval by the client in September 2016. Fine-tuning of the design by […]

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Defect Free Building in New South Wales

I have been chairman of the multi-disciplinary committee (MDC) of Engineers Australia since 2012. A lot has happened in the last four years. In 2014 Michael Lambert (previously NSW Treasury Official) was appointed by the government to undertake a report into concerning standards in the building industry. This has been a problem for the government […]

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