First class product and service

Townsville Precast manufacturers panels of any standard thickness and we work with your project specifications and industry standards. We not only make our products at our state-of-the-art plant in Townsville, we also install and erect.

All panels are made, supplied and erected to order – working with your architectural and engineering drawings or designs ensures that from the initial consultation, through to production and erection of your project, it will get individual attention to detail from a Townsville Precast director.

With Townsville Precast you’ll get a first-class product with first-class service.

Completed Projects

As a new organisation, TP only has a performance history since August 2007. However, the staff has in excess of 150 years of diverse involvement and experience that is fully applied to the new business, providing an impressive record to support the new entity.

Over this period, TP has constructed in excess of 1200 elements including the following projects.

1. Broad Constructions Ltd – James Cook University Performing Arts Building.
   “Quality of work done has been excellent. James Cook University Facility Management are very pleased with works completed. Very few minor problems along the way, everything is moving along quite well. Overall we are ecstatic with Townsville Precast and would have no problems recommending them to anyone and are considering using them for future works”
   Mr. Steve Hopcroft, Senior Project Engineer, Broad Construction Pty Ltd.
2. Hutchinson Builders – Townsville Central Project.
   This large project involved four buildings across 10 levels and more than 250 elements. TP was engaged in 2007 at a time when the project was in difficulty with time and quality issues in the precast area. TP provided high quality service, products and was instrumental in bringing the project back on program.
   Senior Project Manager/Engineer, Mr Jim Gutteridge, would provide additional input as to the TP performance.
3. Hutchinson Builders – Itara at Riverway.
   Whilst as smaller project, the provision of specialist precast “Butterscotch” elements was a clear and positive example of the technical and quality capabilities of our Team
4. Bettabuilt – Crocodile Crescent Project.
   Bettabuilt are a specialist design and construction company focussing on aircraft hangars, commercial complexes and industrial buildings. TP has just completed precast elements for a 3 factory complex. Contact is Matt Garry 0427 442 200
5. Townsville Property Group – Office Project.
   This project involved the production of precast elements for the main office building as well as some 100 m of precast fence panels.

Current Projects

MVM Rail Pty Ltd. Coal Stream Joint Venture – Jilalan Rail Project.
This project is under the supervision/management of McMahon Contractors. Townsville Precast has a key contract for the supply of precast bridge barriers and has completed some 25% of the project.

CMC Pty Ltd – Altitude Apartments Project.
CMC are national building contractors and operate in the range up to $100m in size. Townsville Precast has provided all precast elements on the Altitude Apartments project from level 9 to level 17. TP was appointed to this job due to the significant delays and quality issues with other precasters and have been instrumental in reducing the completion times from four to two weeks for each floor. Contact is Paul Brougham (pbrougham@cmcgroup.ws)

ADCO Pty Ltd – Willows Shopping Complex Project.
ADCO are a national design and construction company involved in an extensive cross-section of projects cumulatively valued at more than $400 million each year.

Why Precast Concrete Products Against Other Alternatives?

The benefits of factory-made precast are recognised as making a significant contribution to improve the construction industry.

The advantages of drawing on the experience and expertise of specialist precasters such as Townsville Precast Pty Ltd, are considerable.

Often comparisons do not include all of the relevant items required to complete a fair and professional assessment. For example, often overlooked is the significant cost of scaffolding required for block work.

Some of these benefits include:

• High quality - manufactured under controlled conditions, by specialists, in purpose-built factories delivers dimensional accuracy, repeatability and other quality benefits.
• Manufacture in controlled conditions, undercover on steel tables.
• Reliable - manufactured under cover and not weather affected.
• Safer - Construction sites are less cluttered, scaffolding not required as would be the case with block work. Increasingly efficient and more readily managed.
• Improved aesthetics - from grey off-form made on steel casting beds to a range of architectural finishes.
• Design flexibility - using moulds to suit any requirement.
• Higher strengths - mean long life cycles, high loading capacities & long spans.
• Faster construction - 75% less construction times than traditional construction.
• Lower cost - reduced time on site, reduced propping/scaffolding costs, lower site labour costs, and lower materials storage costs.
• Secure - inherently strong.
• Fire & disaster resistant - superior performance in all disasters.
• Less waste - lean production in manufacturing & exact elements are delivered to site.
• Durable & low maintenance - up to 100 years service for high use applications.
• Acoustic benefits - high mass provides an efficient acoustic barrier.
• Environmentally friendly - manufacturing uses less energy than comparable components, recycled materials used in production, less noise, air pollution & debris on site, allows benefits of thermal mass to be incorporated into designs.
• Energy efficient – high thermal mass reduces heating and cooling