Buxton Construction recently completed an apartment development in Marlborough Street Balaclava for HousingFirst, an awardwinning, regulated not-for-profit organisation providing social and affordable housing for more than 1,600 people across Melbourne. The development is a partnership between the City of Port Phillip, the Victorian Government and HousingFirst which saw the site transformed into a contemporary housing…

Buxton Construction has been committed to a graduate training program almost since the company’s inception more than 50 years ago says current chairman Andrew Briggs. It is designed to embrace and develop employees’ capabilities as well as groom and equip people with high potential for more senior roles in the company. “Over the years the…

Over the years many employees of Buxton Construction have participated in the company’s graduate program. We’ve put the spotlight on four diverse graduate stories. Tim Hope-Johnstone A prime example of the value of the graduate program is Tim Hope-Johnstone. Tim joined Buxton in 2006 and worked as a graduate on the Essington Apartments project in…

The construction industry today is a far cry from 50 years ago. Methods, compliance, regulations, building techniques and materials have evolved over the decades. “In the past building regulations fell in line with the lowest common denominator which set a fairly low bar but this has changed dramatically and construction operations and standards have cranked…