Despite being less than two years old, Mudgee company, Buildique has made waves in the construction world after winning an award for a special heritage project in Hill End.
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The company, run by Brad Sibley, recently won the ‘Alterations and additions extensions’ category in the $300,000-$500,000 range in the Western Division’. This wordy award was for their work on a project on The Hill End Heritage Centre commissioned by National Parks and Wildlife.
Brad became involved in the project after his work was noticed by National Parks when he was working on another historical project in the area.
While Buildique team was roughly four people, it took many more than that when working on a heritage project such as this.
“The building used to be the RFS shed in later years the RFS have built a new shed. It was built around an old 1800s cottage so even when it was an RFS shed there was this little cottage in the middle which they used part of,” Brad said.
“You’ve gotta work pretty closely with the heritage architect about trying to sustain as much original fabrics and reusing as much of the original material as possible.”
“Any excavation works which were done for the foundations had to be supervised by archaeologists and they would excavate very small layers, and then take that dirt and sieve it off and see what they can find to sort of get a bit of a story of what was once there.”
“The archaeologists found a lot of old coins and sewing needles and the even found part of a diary.”
Brad said he had decided to enter to see if they could get a bit of recognition for their young business – after a rebranding of an older business.
“So we just entered that one in and it seemed to go alright,” he said.
I guess because were relatively new business - operating for 12 years as my old business - we sort of rebranded and changed the company image and brand - we thought it’d be a good idea to get some recognition for some of our work and yeah we won the ‘Alterations and Additions Extensions’ category in the $300,000-$500,000 range in the western division, basically anywhere west of the mountains and north of bathurst, so a pretty big area.”