After one day on the job young construction trainees at Marrara Christian College are on track to build a house in just three days.
Students from the College’s Fabrication and Construction Trade Training Centre – which includes 65 per cent Indigenous students – have installed the walls, floors and roof trusses on the revolutionary wooden flat-pack house.
Marrara Christian College Trade Training Centre Manager Richard Hart said the shell of the house will be complete at the end of day two.
“Today the students will concentrate on completing the ceiling and start on installing some windows,” Mr Hart said.
“The wiring and plumbing is underway and will also be finished before the day is out.”
The quick build home uses a unique panelised building system by Carter Holt Harvey which allows a home to be constructed on site by trainee construction workers under supervision and is perfect for remote communities where labour and accommodation costs can be high.
“With this new panelised building system, we can build a house from the ground to lock-up in just three to five days using construction trainees under the supervision of qualified tradesmen,” Mr Hart said.
Members of the public are invited to watch the house under construction.
The home is under construction at the training centre at the school in Amy Johnson Avenue. Visitors should follow the signs to the centre from the school entrance.
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