Industry

The Australian Government’s Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan, the NSW Government’s housing boost and Housing NSW’s normal supply program have created an opportunity for the private sector and the community sector to work with Housing NSW to deliver around 9,000 social housing properties by June 2012. In addition, repairs and maintenance for existing social housing will be fast-tracked.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape the social housing property portfolio and to secure jobs and investment in NSW. The Economic Stimulus Plan will provide significant opportunities and stimulus to the building and construction industry and social housing will benefit from greater transparency and accountability, better economic and social participation for social housing residents and growth of community housing sector.

Stage One involves bringing forward for construction social housing dwellings which were already planned and approved. In this stage $226 million worth of redevelopments will need to be completed by June 2010. The majority of these homes will be transferred to the community housing sector in line with the NSW Government’s commitment to growing this sector.

Stage Two involves an Australian Government approved tender for new construction, including the spot purchase of house and land packages for use in social housing. The second stage, worth $1.5 billion, will require 75 percent of homes completed by December 2010. This task will be achieved by partnering with a range of external project management firms.

Housing NSW is working with the building and construction industry to deliver this extraordinary investment in the social housing sector.

Development Project Management Firms

Nine firms have been appointed to act as Development Project Managers to work with Housing NSW to deliver around 6,000 new social housing homes under the Nation Building Economic Stimulus Plan.

These firms are managing the delivery of our development projects across the state right through to completion, reporting to Landcom and Housing NSW. Contractors, tradespeople and building manufacturing suppliers looking for work can contact these firms directly.

Area	Contractor	Contact
Western NSW	Arup	9320 9320
Sydney	Australia Pacific Projects (APP)	9957 6211
Hunter Valley / Newcastle	Bovis Lend Lease	9236 6111
Northern NSW / New England	Capital Insight	9955 2300
Sydney	Coffey Projects	9287 2100
Sydney	Crown	9252 4420
Sydney	McLachlan Lister	9241 7328
Southern NSW / Illawarra	Thinc	9256 4700
Sydney and Central Coast	TSA	9276 1400

Maintenance Contractors

Housing NSW has six approved maintenance contractors to carry out maintenance, repairs and upgrades to Housing NSW properties.

Contractors, tradespeople and building manufacturing suppliers looking for work can contact these firms directly.

Area	Contractor	Contact
Sydney Inner City, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Southern Suburbs, Macarthur, Southern Highlands, Wollongong North, Wollongong South	Spotless	9816 9200
Bankstown, Parramatta, Hills, Liverpool, Fairfield, Northern Suburbs, Newcastle, Hunter Valley, North Coast, South Coast, Southern Tablelands	Transfield Services	8863 6000
Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Central Coast	Lake Maintenance	4351 7477
St Marys, Mountains	Programmed Maintenance Services	9748 7088
New England, North West NSW, Bathurst, Orange	RTC Facilities Maintenance	4914 0200
Far West, Riverina	PJS Building	6962 6083

Construction projects

For information on construction projects for Housing NSW, please see NSW eTendering Contract Notice Search. All you need to do is select the "contract notices" period, then select "view". The information that can be viewed includes address of site, brief details of project, contract date, contract value and contractor name and address.