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Buildmore Women Into Building Housing Showcase |
Welcome to our dedicated website for the
"Buildmore Women into Building Housing Showcase".
I am Sam Sheppard, the licensed builder behind this National first initiative; a small lot home designed, constructed and supplied predominantly by women. Without a doubt this has become a career highlight for me, inspired by a conversation between Carey DeBoer from Totally Workwear and Radmilla Desic, Queensland President for NAWIC. The suggestion was put to me and I thought it was fantastic but extremely ambitious, let’s face it, to cover all vocations and trades, women may be few and far between. Read more
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Objectives
General:
- Elevate awareness and acceptance of women who choose to develop a career in the building and construction industries;
- Encourage women to consider the building industry as a career of choice;
- Provide mentoring, networking, promotional and learning opportunities for females crafting a career.
- Communicate our positive message with optimism, enthusiasm and conviction.
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Industry-focused:
- Demonstrate environmentally responsible design and construction principles;
- Raise awareness of small-lot housing and sustainable design principles;
- Inject a new boost of confidence into the building industry;
- Create awareness of job opportunities for women;
- Promote workplace health and safety.
- Break down stereotypes and misconceptions
- Highlight the significant contribution women deliver in their various vocations.
Key investors:
- Raise profile of key investors on a national-level;
- Provide promotional opportunity for the Sunshine Coast property, building and supply industries;
- Raise profile of Investa and attract more traffic to the new Bellflower display village.
- Raise the profile of Associations within the Buildiing industry who offer powerful support and encouragement to members and networks.
- Offer opportunities and support for participants to identify, develop and self promote their distinctive individuality.
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To check out the fantastic Women into Building Facebook page,
click here
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"The Commonwealth Government is offering bonus incentives to businesses who employ first year apprentices until the 28th February 2010"
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For more information about the Apprentice Kickstart Bonus contact your nearest Australian Apprenticeships Centre. Conditions apply.
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For further information you can go to:
http://www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au/Australian_Apprentice/Kickstart.asp
http://www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au/about/publications.asp
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For more world class photos you can follow this link to Brian Rogers dedicated webpage
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Username: construction
Password: plans
You can then click on "write a blog entry"
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