NOVEMBER 2007

Carrington Centennial Care selects Grindley for aged care facility at its celebrated historic site

Grindley has commenced work on Grasemere Terrace RCF, introducing exceptional aged care facilities to a landmark building that was NSW's first public convalescent hospital, the former Carrington Centennial Hospital in Camden.

The $18 million project comprises 30 High Care beds and 70 Low Care beds, extending the work of Carrington Centennial Care, recognised in this year's national ACSA awards for excellence in quality care and services for older people.

Grindley was chosen for its expertise in developing high and low care and experience with heritage sites. This is a site with a significant history of benevolence. In 1888, William Henry Paling, a wealthy businessman and philanthropist, generously donated his 500 acre 'Grasmere' property complete with stock, dairy, irrigation appliances, and two cottages, plus £10,000 to the people of NSW to establish the Carrington Centennial Hospital for Convalescents and Incurables at Camden. The Governor of the day was Lord Carrington and the Deed of Gift was presented to him for the Centenary of the Colony.

More than one hundred years later Grindley is honoured to play a role in ensuring the building's continued role as an icon for Carrington's 'Excellence in Care' for future generations.

Carrington management and the Grindley project team celebrate the start of work at the site with a turning of the soil ceremony by Camden's Mayor (pictured 4th from the right)

OCTOBER 2007

Top MBA award and double win for Reserve Bank Australia (RBA) project

The RBA's new Business Resumption Facility, constructed by Grindley, has been awarded the state's highest industry accolade, the MBA NSW Outstanding Construction Award 2007, identifying it as this year's best building of any category.

Winner also of the MBA NSW Excellence in Construction Award for commercial building $20 - $80 million, the new building is as striking and complex as it is important. As the secondary site of Australia's central bank, this is a resilient, robust and highly secure facility that presented unique challenges.

Richard Mayes, Head of Facilities Management Department of RBA comments, "Grindley's commitment helped us achieve our vision for this building."

Grindley warmly congratulates the RBA, project architects DEM Architects and quantity surveyor, Davis Langdon & Associates.

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New employees welcomed and promotions announced

As Grindley continues its expansion we welcome the important new additions who are helping the company keep pace with its growing portfolio in NSW and Queensland:

• David Leafe – Sub-Foreman at Jannali, NSW
• Steve Singleton – Leading hand carpenter in Moss Vale, NSW
• Jaad Ghaby – Cadet at Hammondville Independent Living Units, NSW
• Ben Reid – Sub-Foreman, QLD

Promotions announced

David Djokic and Andre Bartley of NSW are each congratulated on their promotion into the ranks of Sub-Foreman as they advance their construction career with Grindley.

Grindley welcomes 5 new apprentices commencing January 2008

• Danny Wortes
• Ben Hemmings
• Douglas Macpherson
• Michael Mellor
• Mark Jefferson

AUGUST 2007

Grindley wins exciting new projects, posts a triple entry for the 2007 MBA awards and gears up as sponsor of ACSA national conference

Grindley has won a design contest to secure the $5+ million tender for Prince Henry Community Centre, Sydney. The unique design conceived by the Grindley team was chosen from four very different buildings submitted by competing Design & Construction tenderers. This is a high profile project where all parties had to propose their own design to meet the brief. Grindley is responsible for procuring a DA and work begins on-site in November.

Located on the old Prince Henry Hospital Site, the new Community Centre will overlook the golf course, offering uninterrupted ocean views. The Grindley team is expecting some internal competition now about who gets to work on-site there during summer!

Anglicare has just awarded Grindley the contract for refurbishment of its Chesalon Nursing Home in Jannali, NSW. The Salvation Army Australian Eastern Territory has selected Grindley for the $9+ million major upgrade of its 40 bed Riverview Garden aged care facility in Riverview, near Brisbane, due for completion in May 2008. Amity at New Farm is the latest addition to Grindley's steadily growing Queensland portfolio with refurbishment work underway this month.

Triple MBA Award Entry

Three projects recently completed by the Grindley team have been entered into the 2007 MBA Awards:

• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Artarmon Self Storage Facility
• Blakehurst Aged Care Facility

Grindley sponsors ACSA national conference in Melbourne

'Ageing: it's everyone's business' is the theme for ACSA's 2007 national conference and, as Ageing is at the core of our business, Grindley is official conference satchel sponsor. We invite you to come and say hello to the Grindley team 16th-18th September at the Grindley stand.

JUNE 2007

Grindley is a major sponsor of the ACS State Conference, 6-8th June

at the Sydney Conference & Exhibition Centre. Achieving Sustainability is the theme for a series of new workshops and presentations at this years event. We invite you to come along and explore the issues with Grindley's senior team at booths 30 & 31.

The Aged and Community Services Association of NSW & ACT (ACS) is the largest peak industry body for aged care providers in NSW and ACT. For more details visit www.agedservices.asn.au

APRIL 2007

Cook Care engages Grindley for its new $12 million five star nursing home at Manly Vale on Sydney's northern beaches.

'Excellence without compromise' is the guiding vision of the Cook Care Group, who combine philosophy of care with high building standards throughout their high care facilities in Sydney and Queensland.

Completed projects this month include Bayview Gardens and Blakehurst RACF.

Significant additions to one of Australia's premier retirement villages, Bayview Gardens, bounded by Sydney's Northern Beaches and scenic Pittwater, were completed by Grindley for Village Care Limited.

At Blakehurst in NSW the construction of a new 96 bed low care nursing home and refurbishment of the existing building to meet the latest standards and regulatory codes was delivered to deadline for development and property management experts, Incoll Group.

MARCH 2007

Grindley joins the Green Building Council Australia.

Grindley is commited to sustainable development as the future of our industry. The Green Building Council's (GBCA) mission is to develop a sustainable property industry for Australia and drive the adoption of green building practices through market-based solutions.

The GBCA is a national, not-for-profit organisation that is uniquely supported by both industry and governments across the country.

FEBRUARY 2007

Grindley is offically welcomed as an ACS Corporate Supporter.

The ACS (Aged & Community Services Association of NSW and ACT Incorporated) is the peak organisation for aged care services and retirement villages in NSW and the ACT. It represents over 300 organisations who manage more than 1,600 services for in excess of 100,000 people. No other industry association in NSW or the ACT covers the full spectrum of residential care, self-care and community care.

Grindley is delighted to be associated with ACS and looks forward to meeting members and supporters at ACS's industry specific conferences and events during 2007.

JANUARY 2007

Final stage of $125 million multi-award winning Constitution Hill welcomes residents.

The largest and final stage of this landmark village, set in bushland north west of Parramatta, welcomed its first residents after the Australia Day long weekend. Valued at $14.5 million, this stage comprises 49 units and brings the total village size to 425 units and a 120+ bed nursing home.

Recognised in the industry as a visionary development, Constitution Hill combines quality independent living and a state-of-the-art residential aged care facility in a village community with extensive lifestyle facilities.

Residents value the natural environment that characterises Constitution Hill, and bushland regeneration work continues around the perimeter of the entire village, adjacent to the RACF and around the final stage of units now being released.

Completing the picture this month is a series of raised pedestrian crossings constructed around the village ring road, promoting safe movement within the community.

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