On Monday 4th November, construction at our newest project, Cape Care Dunsborough was officially launched with a Turning of the Sod Ceremony. Perkins Builders were joined by representatives from Cape Care, Forrest MP Nola Marino, SWDC CEO Melissa Teede and Jan Button from CWA.

The Cape Care Dunsborough facility will be known as Armstrong Village and includes an 80-bed residential facility for people with high needs, palliative care, 21 independent living units, allied health services, premises for the Dunsborough Country Women’s Association, playground and landscaped gardens.

The ceremony was covered by the Busselton Mail; for more information you can view the article here.

Perkins Builders are delighted to announce, our Project Manager Richard Bell won at the Australian Institute of Building National Awards. Richard was awarded with a National Professional Excellence Winner for Commercial Construction $1m – $25m for his work on the Bannister Downs Dairy Creamery. 

These awards celebrate and recognise the professional excellence of individual’s within the building and construction process focusing on how the project was built and to be recognised at a National level is an outstanding achievement.

Congratulations, Richard!

Perkins Builders are proud to announce our success at the Master Builders Western Australia Apprentice Awards, held in Perth on Friday 1st November.

We have always fostered a culture of safety and a thorough commitment to training the next generation of builders; to achieve formal recognition of this is fantastic.

Congratulations to Harley and to all of our staff for their involvement and support of these initiatives.

Yesterday, marked a milestone for the new Western Power Pinjarra Depot with Perkins Builders officially announced as the builder at the Turning of the Sod Ceremony.

Western Power’s CEO, Chairman and representatives were joined at the ceremony by Minister for Energy Bill Johnson, Member for Murray-Wellington Robyn Clarke, members from the Development WA Industrial Lands Authority, Shire of Murray and Perkins Builders.

The new $15m facility will service the Peel region, and is the second facility to be built under Western Power’s depot modernization program.

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WORK STARTS ON NEW PINJARRA DEPOT

Perkins Builders are excited to announce we have been awarded the contract for the South West’s newest aged care facility, Cape Care Dunsborough.

This will be the first aged care facility for the rapidly-growing Dunsborough community, and will comprise an 80-bed residential care facility for people with high physical needs in a dementia-enabling environment, palliative care, 21 independent living apartments with complimentary and allied health services, new premises for the Dunsborough Country Women’s Association (CWA), a playground, café and landscaped gardens.

Please see full media release from Cape Care below.

The Minister for Police, Michelle Roberts MLA, officially turned the first sod of the $86m Armadale Courthouse and Police Complex on 24 September 2019 accompanied by representatives of the City of Armadale, West Australian Police Force, Department of Justice and Perkins Builders.

This facility is a joint venture between Department of Justice and West Australian Police Force. Perkins is proud to have been awarded the contract which will commence on site in October 2019.

The Perkins Group of Companies are delighted to announce we were presented with the National Business Leadership Award for a Large Commercial Construction Company – Annual Turnover over $50M, at the Master Builders Association of Australia Business Leadership awards in Melbourne on 22nd August.

These awards recognize excellence in best practice, improvement initiatives, innovation, industry leadership and corporate social responsibilities within a business. The awards validate and celebrate the businesses which are leading the way in best practice and whom have genuinely instilled this objective into their long-term business strategy. The awards also aim to inspire businesses in the building and construction industry, large and small, to make excellence in best practice the foundation and mission of their brand.

Today, is R U OK Day and we’d like to encourage everyone to get involved and ask R U OK?

R U OK’s vision is a world where we’re all connected and are protected from suicide. Their mission is to inspire and empower everyone to meaningfully contact with people around them and support anyone struggling with life.

Today, Mates in Construction are Flying the Flag for suicide prevention, in support of R U OK Day.

Perkins Builders are involved. We’re flying the flag for MIC. We’re asking our coworkers and those around us R U OK?

We challenge you, not only today, but whenever you notice something out of the ordinary to ask R U OK?

Last weekend, The Perkins Group of Companies held our Annual Company Celebration. This event is our chance to say thank you to our amazing staff and their partners, for all their hard work, their dedication to our business and of course, some downtime to celebrate the success’ of the past year.

The musically gifted within our ranks surprised us with a performance and we celebrated some exciting milestones, with presentations for our amazing staff whom have reached 10 years, 15 years and even a 20 years of service!

To all our staff and their families, congratulations and thank you!