South Australia Reports - February 2010

New head office, training facility
The CCF SA board, at its strategic planning day in April 2008, agreed that the CCF SA would co-locate its training and member services into one head office building. The building would either be purpose built or an existing building fitted out appropriately.
After a lengthy review of available properties, and consideration of the construction of a new building, No 1 South Road, Thebarton was approved by the CCF SA board as meeting the essential criteria. After an extensive due diligence process, the contract for purchase was signed in late 2009 and settlement will take place on March 1 2010.
The building is well known and in a prominent site along Adelaide’s main North – South transport corridor with an average of over 50,000 vehicles passing on a daily basis. It is strategically positioned 4km from the CBD.
The building will accommodate CCF SA’s current and future requirements. It has a total building area of approximately 4342m², comprising 3388m² of office accommodation over two (2) levels and 954m² of warehouse, plus associated onsite car parking for about 85 vehicles. The property comprises two (2) parcels being separated by Weber Street with a combined site area of 5659m².
CCF SA leads the way
“A comprehensive review of training simulators has had an outstanding result,” according to CCF SA vice president and chairman of Civil Train SA training committee Garry Stewart. A review of 10 training simulators over the past two years, found most were either inappropriate for training in the civil construction industry, or their price gave little cost benefit. A chance discussion with SA Volvo dealer Warren Mining and Construction Equipment, led to the review by CCF SA of a newly developed series of Volvo training simulators.
To gain first hand experience on these simulators, and to explore civil training developments in Europe, Garry Stewart and CCF SA CEO Peter Nolan spent a week before Christmas as a guest of Volvo in France and Sweden.
An order has now been placed for an excavator simulator and a wheel loader simulator. CCF SA has secured funding from the Federal and State government to assist with the cost of this.
These two simulators have been developed in consultation with European and American training organisations and Civil Train SA will now become part of a world-wide simulator forum that will further enhance simulators as training tools. These will support the ongoing Live Works training in South Australia, which has recently relocated to Playford Alive, enabling greater number of trainees to be more effectively trained as plant operators.