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A builder who came in ‘kicking and screaming’ and a manufacturer with 13 years of pioneering experience have forged one of Victoria’s most productive partnerships in light gauge steel construction.

When physiotherapists Laura Stefani and Tom Hol decided to knock down and rebuild their family home in Heathcote in Sydney’s south, they wanted a fundamentally different approach to construction — one aligned with their values around sustainability, efficiency, and thoughtful design.

The Future of Housing Construction Centre of Excellence at Melbourne Polytechnic’s Heidelberg campus is a $50 million in Australia’s Smart Building workforce. Born from a convergence of industry vision and educational ambition, and anchored by a partnership between prefabAUS and one of the nation’s leading TAFE organisations, the Centre aims to become the engine room for a new generation of construction professionals.

When Grove Group set out to construct a three-storey modular building at Glen Waverley Secondary College, they faced a formidable engineering challenge: convincing a sceptical consulting engineer that helical screw piles could safely support a multi-storey structure within the constraints of an active school environment.