CASESTUDY
Supporting the NSW development industry
During the global financial crisis, Landcom played a crucial role in helping to keep the New South Wales home building industry in business by partnering with Housing NSW to deliver social housing under the commonwealth’s economic stimulus package.
We managed the delivery of 1,100 dwellings over just 18 months – from site acquisition to the handover of the completed buildings. Our efforts generated a combined contract value of $350 million. This provided a welcome source of work for the development industry, their suppliers
and tradespeople during uncertain economic times.
To meet the ambitious targets set for us, we developed a new delivery model designed to rapidly increase our capacity, minimise costs and streamline house production. We saved time and simplified procedures by focusing on a palette of standard home and landscape design templates tailored to the project home builder market. We did this without compromising on quality, ensuring that the templates provided for high quality adaptable homes with potential for ‘ageing in place’.
Our efforts have opened up new opportunities both for us and for our partners in the project home building industry. We now contribute to the delivery of group homes for Ageing, Disability and Home Care and are developing active working relationships in the rapidly growing community housing sector.