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Giovenco Scaffolding Portfolio

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Giovenco

Scaffolding

Portfolio


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Table of Contents

A Perfect Provenance ...................................................................................................... 3

The Business of GioScaff ................................................................................................ 6

Our Services .................................................................................................................... 7

The Capability of Gioscaff ............................................................................................... 9

GioScaff Does It This Way ............................................................................................. 10

Our Experience .............................................................................................................. 11

Contact details for senior management:

Warren Wells, CEO and Chairman of GioScaff

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 0418 498 124

Leon Kelly, State Manager (NSW & ACT)

Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0487 411 888

Richard Bilsland, State Manager (QLD & NT)

Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0499 111 606

Carlo Giovenco, Business Development Director


Telephone: 0408 203 554

Don MacKinnon, Project Management


Telephone: 0407 919 236

Janece Wells, Administrator

Email:[email protected]

Telephone: 0419 212 596


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GioScaff - A Perfect Provenance

Our history

The patron of Giovenco Scaffolding Pty Ltd

(“GioScaff”) is Claudio Giovenco.

Claudio’s oldest brother, Bonaventura (“Bon”) was

captured by the Australian Army in Egypt while serving

in the Italian Army in World War II and brought to

Australia as a prisoner of war.

After being repatriated, Bon, his wife, Maria, and their

daughter, returned to Australia as Italian immigrants. A

short time later, Arturo (“Arthur”), Gaitano (“Guy”),

Vittorio (“Vic:”) and the youngest brother, Claudio,

joined him with their parents in Australia.

The brothers sought work and took (at that time) the

worst of jobs, blasting and painting, at a time when

OH&S regulations protecting employees were “light on

the ground”. This took them to a job at the then being constructed Caltex Oil Refinery at

Kurnell in or around 1955.

There, Guy formed a friendship with the American chief engineer in charge of construction.

The engineer induced the brothers to incorporate a company with a view to taking on work

at the Refinery during its construction. The brothers painted the new tanks being constructed

at the Refinery. This started a 60 year business relationship between Caltex and the brothers.

In Gary Lester’s history of the Kurnell Refinery “Refining at Kurnell: The Caltex Story”, pages

120 and 121are dedicated to the Giovenco brothers.


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The rest is history, the brothers created a very successful business in painting and blasting

and complementary works, including scaffolding and insulation. Giovenco industries was

known for its honesty, integrity and its very loyal workforce.

Claudio has outlived his brothers and is the patron of GioScaff, bringing 60 years of on-the-

job experience in undertaking the most complex of scaffolding projects worldwide.

The safety of employees has been a passion for Claudio and his brothers. It was not unusual

for three generations of one family to work for the brothers. That passion for safety is imbued

within the corporate philosophy of GioScaff.

Leadership

Warren Wells is a forty plus year business and commercial

lawyer, CEO, director and chairman of the board of GioScaff.

Warren was a director of the original Giovenco companies so

he has had a very long relationship with the business

including scaffolding.

Warren brings to the business of GioScaff his wealth of

expertise in business and the law.

Having worked within the Giovenco family for some many

years, he also brings to GioScaff an intense passion for the

safety of GioScaff employees, and the honesty and integrity

that comes with the name “Giovenco”.

Contact details: [email protected], 0418 498 124

Business development

Carlo, Claudio’s son, worked on the job with his father for

some 30 years and brings to GioScaff that experience. Most

importantly, Carlo brings the protection and safety of

employees, honesty and integrity in business to the business

of Gioscaff.

Carlo is the director responsible for new business in

GioScaff, and works day to day in business development.


mailto:[email protected]



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Management

Leon Kelly is the New South Wales manager for GioScaff and

has been involved in the specialised access industry for

20 years, bringing a wealth of experience and management

expertise to GioScaff. He brings to GioScaff skills in HSE,

project management, technical knowledge, stakeholder

engagement, relationship management, logistics and finances.

Leon has experience in all sectors of the construction industry

including commercial, infrastructure, industrial, marine,

defence, government and residential. He is specialised in all

aspects of the industry including cantilevered scaffolds, swing

stages, engineered access, suspended scaffolds and other

difficult access solutions. Leon has also specialised in the

remedial building sector especially managing the projects with

‘live’ sites involving tenants & owners.


Richard Bilsland is the Queensland and Northern

Territories manager for GioScaff and brings to GioScaff

over 22 years of experience within the industry, 15 of

those years by way of the UK market. He has expertise

in varying sectors from energy and renewables,

government and defence through to commercial

construction and has progressed from an operational

foundation through to managerial positions in varying

disciplines.

Richard’s ethos towards safety, culture and customer

satisfaction strengthens the GioScaff team positioning

the business to deliver on client expectations.





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Production

Don MacKinnon worked for Giovenco as a project manager in

scaffolding.

When Claudio and Warren decided to establish GioScaff, the

joining of the experience of Claudio and Warren with the on-

the-job experience of Don was the obvious choice for both.

Don has been a scaffolding project manager for many years

and has worked within a regime of honesty and integrity in

business and reflects that in his business dealings. Don has a

long experience in work safety and is the work safety officer for

the GioScaff group in all States.

Don as the safety officer for GioScaff instils in all of its

employees the “Think Safety – Work Safely” regime that

underpins the workplace protocol on every GioScaff work site.


The importance of administration

The back office is critical to good business and this is managed

by Janece Wells. She brings to GioScaff a wealth of accounting

and administrative experience so that clients of GioScaff can be

assured that their financial and administrative interaction with

GioScaff will be highly professional


Client communication and public relations

Margaret Sharp brings to the

GioScaff team a history of client communication and public

relations experience.

Margaret undertakes the role of client communication and public

relations and will interact with clients and their employees as and

when necessary in order to make certain that GioScaff delivers

on time, on cost and in excess of the client’s expectations.

Margaret is the eldest daughter of our patron.






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In house legal

Jane Truong provides the in house legal support for the contract

administration and interaction legally between GioScaff, its

clients and the world generally.

Jane has had a long experience in business and commercial

law, having graduated from Macquarie University and worked

as a paralegal in a business and commercial law firm during her

study period.

Jane brings to the business of GioScaff a great experience in

business and commercial law.

The GioScaff management team and support

The GioScaff family


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The Business of GioScaff

Where GioScaff works

GioScaff supplies scaffolding to construction, remedial companies and those requiring

access by way of scaffolding, swing stages and the like for the residential, commercial and

industrial sector throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

GioScaff flexibility

Having regard to the range of equipment that GioScaff has available to it GioScaff can supply

an access solution for any and all jobs.

Every job size, the most complicated, those requiring sophisticated design are all the ‘bag’

for GioScaff

The GioScaff advice line

Getting the right access solution is an art form, requiring the blending of civil engineering,

imaginative design, on site experience and hard labour.

GioScaff provides a free service to its clients providing advice as to the access alternatives

available to the client.

Scaffolding Labour Hire

GioScaff’s sister company, Scaffolding Labour Hire, supplies highly qualified scaffolders, so

if you have your own gear GioScaff can provide its design service, and arrange for your

scaffolding to be erected and dismantled by highly trained and qualified scaffolders.

GioScaff’s lift and crane sister company

GioScaff’s sister company, Easy Lift Hire, provides alternative access opportunities to

Gioscaff clients by way of its range of lifts and cranes that can get into the tightest job site

and make the introduction of materials and job site access a ‘breeze’.

Specialised workplaces

GioScaff project managers and staff have been inducted such that they are able to

accommodate the most stringent of client needs for example; in working at heights, within

dangerous workplaces such as with high voltage electricity and in confined spaces.

GioScaff has itself and its clients covered

GioScaff has in place all insurances including workers compensation, product and public risk.


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ISO accreditation and sophisticated paperwork

GioScaff has the experience and the systems to provide the most complex of supporting

documentation to its clients for example management and work health and safety plans

SWMS and the like.

GioScaff committed to safety

GioScaff has a commitment to safety, in that we require GioScaff people to make sound

choices about their own safety and the safety of others by requiring them to apply the

GioScaff safety program “Think Safety - Work Safely” at all times.

GioScaff knows its obligations at law

All of our operations are compliant with:

Fair Work Act 2009

Corporations Act 2001

Work, Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011

Work, Health and Safety Regulations 2011

Information and Privacy Act 2000


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Our Services

GioScaff provides the following services:

Training induction and qualification of prospective employees and contractors on

projects in the scaffolding industry

Site inspections of potential scaffolding work areas to identify the elements necessary

to estimate and provide customers with a cost effective access solution and

subsequently, to perform efficiently, safely and to budget.

Ingenuitive advice and counsel as to the safest and most cost effective method of

creating access to even the most access-difficult work sites

Where scaffolding is the access solution, design even the most complicated of

scaffolding structures for all project types using specialised software and applying the

huge depth of experience and expertise of its senior management

Where scaffolding is the access solution, prepare a detailed presentation as to the

scope of works for the erection, continued support for and dismantling of a scaffolding

project including detailed costing of same.

The design and implementation of a work safe strategy in protection of the principal’s

employees and contractors and the public generally in the creation of a protected

work site to provide the best, most efficient and cost effective access solution, to

protect the public and other workers during the use of the scaffold, and its dismantling

Where necessary design the best, most efficient and cost effective method to

introduce the materials necessary to provide the best and most cost effective site

access including the implementation of the range of equipment available to GioScaff

from its sister companies including Easy Lift Hire

The hire and sales of all scaffolding equipment

The provision of modulate scaffold

The provision of tubing and fitting scaffolds

The provision of hung scaffold

The provision of specialised scaffolding for industrial purposes, for example, Ken-

Kage

The design, scope of works and methodology to be applied for the erection of

specialised scaffold for confined spaces


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The provision of stair towers

The design, scope of works and methodology to be applied for the provision of

propping and supporting systems

The preparation, provision and implementation of Safe Work Method Statements

(“SWMS”) creating the maximum protection for GioScaff employees, the principal’s

employees and contractors and any persons entering, using, working upon or around

the scaffold

The provision of internal bird cages

The implementation of the scaffold tag protocol as set out in the GioScaff’s Health

and Safety Management Plan, “Think Safety – Work Safely”


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The Capability of GioScaff

Provide safe, efficient and cost effective access by the design, erection, maintenance,

support and dismantling of scaffold

Providing and managing certified, well-trained and inducted scaffolding teams for

projects large and small, including large mining, oil and gas construction projects


major maintenance projects


residential, commercial and industrial sites

Resources of over 6,000 tonnes of scaffold

Induction training and certification for scaffolders on major project sites


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GioScaff Does It This Way

The erection support and dismantling of scaffolding demands tough and potentially

dangerous work.

GioScaff serves its clients with a highly motivated and safety conscious work force.

GioScaff’s core conviction is to respect, manage and develop the skills of GioScaff

employees. The result allows GioScaff to provide the best possible service to its clients.

Our service is based on two philosophies, “do it right the first time and every time”, and

“Think Safety - Work Safely”.

Clients will find the GioScaff level of communication with them second to none which ensures

that GioScaff management understands and responds to the needs of clients and that they

are satisfied beyond expectations.


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Our Experience

Senior staff and GioScaff contractors have worked on the following major projects:

BHP Yandi RGP5, Pilbara, Western Australia

BHP Newman Hub, Pilbara, Western Australia


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Caltex Refinery, Kurnell, New South Wales

Vaucluse Anglican Church, New South Wales


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Sammut Developments, Breeze apartments, Cronulla

MacDonald contracting, Cronulla/Blue Mountains


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Ambient Constructions

Bronx Constructions, Bronte


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Project Lockhardt Chambers, 233 Macquarie Street, Sydney

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